handle; grip; holder; person who holds
to adhere to; to stick to; to keep close to; to go along with; to get involved with; to be thick with
to jar; to creak; to grate
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
to be crushed; to be smashed; to become useless; to cease functioning; to go bankrupt; to go out of business
gas station; petrol station
to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)
junior high school student; middle school pupil
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.
to be sooty; to be stained
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
footprints; record of page visitors (e.g. in social networking sites)
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
scrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
to approach; to draw near
bat (in baseball, cricket, etc.)
pointed end; tip; point; forefront; vanguard; spearhead
to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly
to shorten the distance (between); to close the gap (e.g. on the leader); to get closer (e.g. to someone); to close in (on)
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
unknown; unidentified; unspecified
illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
to come near; to let someone approach; to bring near; to bring together; to deliver (opinion, news, etc.); to send (e.g. a letter); to let someone drop by
to laugh at; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of; to sneer at
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
to raise; to bring to (someone's attention); to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to complain; to sue (a person)
expression; presentation; representation; notation
to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to refer (to); to say