chief; main; principal; important
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)
great numbers (of people); numerical superiority; masses; people; folk; clique
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
heir; inheritor; successor
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
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 protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
Shinto priest; chief Shinto priest (of a shrine); Welsh onion; pun in Buddhist monk jargon
senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest); grasshopper; locust
woman; female; feminine gender
(TV or radio) entertainer; television personality; talent; skill; talent (ancient unit of weight and currency)
stone; jewel; precious stone; flint (in a lighter); stone (in go); stone (in the bladder, kidney etc.); calculus
producer (film, TV, etc.)
photographer; cameraman; camera operator; cinematographer
food; food products; foodstuffs
manufacturing; processing; treatment; machining
company; corporation; workplace
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)
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
head of personnel department
man; male; masculine gender
company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
riding ground; racecourse; racetrack
general affairs; general business; manager; director; adjutant general
section manager; section chief
special duty; being in sole charge of a duty; senior managing director; executive director
(private) secretary; treasured book; secret book
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)