colour; color; complexion; skin colour; look (on one's face); expression; appearance
glamorous; charming; beguiling; bewitching; beautiful; fascinatingly elegant
kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length); clothing; clothes
letter; missive; note; mail
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
just as one thought; as usual; sure enough
older brother; elder brother
third sign of the Chinese calendar
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward; gift
to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)
writing; composition; essay; sentence
to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch
or something; or something like that; or words to that effect; something or other
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
just cause; good reason; pretext; duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.)
foreigner; stranger; outsider; alien
in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of
attentive; scrupulous; tactful; tasteful; smart
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
this is why; this means; it is the case that
two sheets (pieces) (of paper)
handsome man; actor in a love scene
one thin flat object; one sheet
common language; lingua franca; standard language (language variety understood throughout a country)
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
language of one's country; mother tongue; native language
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
condition; assumption; intention; intent; premise (in logic)
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed
to build a market for; to promote (a product); to promote oneself; to sell oneself; to sell heavily
selfish; egoistic; self-serving; self-interested
to read (somebody's) thoughts; to guess what (someone) is thinking