injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched
to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to freeze to; to be frozen to; to freeze in place; to be still
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
fleeting (glimpse, glance, etc.)
immediately; right away; at once; instantly
interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
thin strips; matchstick-like strips; julienned ingredient
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; (arch.) Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)
brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows
to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward
in comparison to; rather than
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
height (of body); stature
low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.); low (position); close to the ground; short (height); deep (voice); in a low key
tips of one's hair; hair ends
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
to wear glasses; to put on glasses
adhesive bandage; sticking plaster; band-aid
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
hem; (trouser) cuff; bottom part; bottom edge; foot (of a mountain); tips (of hair)
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
suffix for familiar person