original text; source book; draft
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
multicolumn layout; column setting
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
sword (esp. a large, double-edged one); blade; bayonet; swordsmanship; stinger; ovipositor
after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
replacement; substitute; displacement; transposition; reset
annotation; explanatory note; comment
abbreviation; omission; outline; gist; plan; strategy
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
unpreparedness; falsehood; Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
collecting; accumulating; collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.); garbage collection; waste collection
unusual form; different shape; variant (e.g. kanji, kana)
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
ten (long cylindrical things)
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
target; object (of worship, study, etc.); subject (of taxation, etc.)
whereabouts; place where one is; position; location
Mutsu (former province located in present-day Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, and Aomori prefectures)
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
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
rebellion; great uprising
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.
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
class; order; et cetera; etc.; equal; iso-