cooking; food preparation
honest to a fault; foolishly honest; naively honest
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
defeating; crushing; smashing; destroying
(not) at all; (not) in the least; (none) whatsoever
medium (size); average (grade, level, etc.); in; within; during; while; currently (doing)
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
departure; leaving; setting off
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
improper; inappropriate; unjust; unfair; unreasonable
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
extermination; elimination; renouncing worldly desires (in order to concentrate on Buddhist teachings); curing (an illness)
to bring (something); to take along; to fetch; to get
even so; however; still; whereupon; even though; nevertheless
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; because of; as a result of
compensation; indemnification; reparation; restitution; recompense
before one knows it; without realizing; unawares; unnoticed
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to add up to; to advance (in price)
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
for a while; for some time; for a period
supporting role (actor); minor role
to find fault (with trivial matters); to scold over minor things; to get angry over trifles; to raise one's eyebrows
booking; reservation; making a booking
to take offense; to take offence; to get angry; to lose one's temper
to be shrewd; to be sharp; to keep your wits about you; (lit.) to pluck out the eye of a live horse
trade; business; occupation; profession; job
to live; to make a living; to get on with
way to go!; attaboy!; hear, hear!
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly; less and less
to seem ...; to look ...; to appear ...; to feel ...; to behave like ...
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
to be betrayed; to be brought to grief (by an enemy); to be given a hard time
while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily
cruel; hard-hearted; harsh; unkind
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
extortion; blackmail; shakedown; extortionist; blackmailer; racketeer
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter