(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
... is the reason; ... is my excuse
to knead; to mix with fingers; to quibble; to argue for argument's sake
(please) look; see; (please) try to do
business; things to do; engagement; errand; affairs
to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; node (of a plant stem); joint
unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help
greeting; a fine thing to say
not the time for; not the place for; far from; far more than; nowhere near just; well beyond
Japanese-Chinese; Japan and China
period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)
ocean transportation; importation
folding book; counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori); counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.; counter for pairs (of curtains); counter for tatami mats
to be attracted (by); to take an interest (in)
Song dynasty (of China; 960-1279); Sung dynasty; Liu Song dynasty (of China; 420-479); Liu Sung dynasty; Song (ancient Chinese state; 11th century-286 BCE); Sung
Liang dynasty (of China; 502-557)
regular script (of Chinese characters); square style; block style; Chinese pistache (Pistacia chinensis)
Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
tokonoma; alcove where art or flowers are displayed
sun (approx. 3 cm); length; measurement; shortness; tininess
your husband; her husband
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
contrary; opposite; inverse; reverse; back-to-front
anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever
state (of mind); mental state; field (of activity); one's lot; circumstance; place
situated deep in the mountains
extraordinary; uncommon; remarkable; unusual; rare; prodigious
one color; one kind; one tendency; being the sole mood, sentiment, focus of attention, etc.
remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude
little by little; bit by bit
counter for (small) things or pieces; counter for military units; (an) individual; one person; counter for years (of age difference); counter for school-years
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
to break up and start anew; to break out of one's shell; to make a fresh start; to go outside oneself
Tinea translucens (species of clothes moth)