cheap; rubbishy; shoddy; roughly made
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
participant; entrant; player; competitor
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
application (of a rule, law, method, etc.)
once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
scoring; score; points made; marks obtained; goals; runs
double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n
winner-takes-all (system); taking everything (esp. winnings)
willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica)
swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin; barn swallow (Hirundo rustica); younger man involved with an older woman; boy toy
sweet flag (Acorus calamus); calamus; Japanese iris (Iris ensata var. ensata)
dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk
well, ...; right, ...; so; then; that way (would mean ...); if that is the case
start; commencement; beginning; initiation
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
5-point card with a blue tanzaku; blue ribbon card; scoring combination consisting of the three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku
the Sun, the Moon and the stars; three 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
hey there; I say; see here
he; she; samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami); type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
cherry blossom viewing; flower viewing
one cup (of); one glass (of); one drink (of alcohol); full; filled (with); fully; to capacity
four 20-point cards (scoring combination)
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; progeny; offspring; paternal blood; lineage; sperm
the Ono no Michikaze card and three other 20-point cards (scoring combination)
the boar, deer and butterfly cards (high-scoring meld); inoshikacho (type of hanafuda gambling game)
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
crisis prevention; crisis avoidance
defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)
dangerous; risky; awful; terrible; terrific; amazing
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
end; close; conclusion; termination
boy; son; baby boy; young man