chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); domestic chicken; chicken meat
inspection (esp. of a document); stamp of approval (for a document)
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
lesson; section (in an organization); division; counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
kin; catty; pound (unit of weight); loaf (of bread)
stone (of a fruit); pit; core (of an organization, team, etc.); nucleus; nuclear weapons; nucleus (of an atom); nucleus (of a cell)
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
district; quarter; enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork; red-light district; wide and empty
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
star (usu. not including the Sun); planet (usu. not including Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); star (actor, player, etc.); small dot; spot; star point (in go)
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance
don't you think?; indicates question
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
pleasant; agreeable; comfortable; refreshing
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence
weft; woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case
barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China
Chinese matrimony vine (Lycium chinense); Chinese wolfberry; goji
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
a little over; a little more than; powerhouse; one of the biggest; upper (seismic intensity)
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
oneself (itself, etc.); I; me; you; by oneself (itself, etc.); interjection expressing anger or chagrin
creeping at night into a woman's bedroom; stealing into a girl's bedroom at night to make love; sneaking visit
stroke (of a kanji, etc.)
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?