prologue; prolog; Prolog (Programming in Logic)
love; affection; attachment; craving; agape; Ireland
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
library; book collection; paperback book
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
monthly publication; monthly issue
company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.
wandering; rambling; roaming
hut; house; boarding house; school dormitory; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)
Tezuka Osamu (1928.11.3-1989.2.9)
Terayama Shuuji (1935.12.10-1983.5.4)
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
double circle (indicating "very good" on a piece of school work)
Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam
Island; insula; island; islet
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of
Amur silvergrass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)
hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
regular holiday; fixed day off; regular closing day
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
passage; pathway; roadway; avenue; aisle
to squat; to crouch down (completely, generally with face looking through knees)