call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
on that occasion; at that time
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice
tuck (e.g. in a dress); rise (e.g. in price)
four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations
waste; scrap; garbage; scum; piece of trash; loser
to take notice (of); to pay attention (to)
to write incorrectly; to miswrite; to spoil (e.g. a letter) due to writing mistakes; to ruin; to make a mess of
number of characters per line, page, etc.
Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character); manuscript paper
gloss; luster; mellowness (of a voice); youthfulness (e.g. of skin); interest; appeal
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
department store; department
mark; symbol; to mark; to put a mark on; trademark; paying attention to; focusing on
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
container; receptacle; case; inserting; putting in
agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance
to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)
to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
to ask a question; to ask questions
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay
hello; good day; good afternoon
it's been a long time; long time no see
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
entry (on stage); appearance (on screen); entrance; introduction (into a market)
optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
(turning) round and round; in circles; wrapping around; winding around
blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not