elementary school; primary school; school for children over eight years old in ancient China; traditional Chinese philology
becoming red hot; red heat; scorching heat; running high (of emotions); burning (with passion, enthusiasm, etc.)
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
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
table of contents; contents
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
soon; in a moment; nearby; close; direct; spot transaction
still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...
good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield
the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket
prefectural; managed by a prefectural government
now; the present time; just now; another; more
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
senior high school; high school
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
already; now; by this time; quick; early; fast
river; stream; River; the ... river
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
classroom; lecture room; department (in a university); class; lessons; school (for a particular discipline)
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to desire; to wish for; to expect; to see; to command (a view of)
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")