to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
ankle; malleolus; ankle bone
legal; lawful; legitimate
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
permanent; perpetual; persistent; lasting
bodily injury; personal injury; actual bodily harm; mayhem
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
capital punishment; death penalty; maximum penalty; ultimate punishment
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
state of mind; mentality; psychology
insight; discernment; perception; perspicacity; acumen
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
general; overall; across-the-board
function; facility; faculty; feature
government office; government agency; authorities
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
regulation; (traffic) policing; control; restriction
public opinion; popular voice; public sentiment; consensus
way; method; means; resource; course
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
appeal to a higher court; intermediate appeal
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
private; confidential; informal; secret; (within the) family circle; (on the) inside
investigation (e.g. by police or prosecutors); examination; inquiry; enquiry
minute; detailed; careful; scrupulous; thorough
inspection; audit; judgement; judgment
record of proceedings; minutes
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
spoken language; colloquial speech; (modern) spoken Japanese; written style based on (modern) spoken Japanese
tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)
ideogram; ideograph; ideographic script
to abridge; to shorten; to economize
stroke (of a kanji, etc.)
one stroke (of a brush); a few lines (of writing); note; writing in one go (without stopping to apply more ink to the brush); parcel (of land); same handwriting
omission; abbreviation; abridgment; abridgement
(while) holding a post or being in office
actual existence; real existence; existing in real life
Tang period (China; 618-907); Tang era
Di people; Zhou dynasty term used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the north