attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
command; lead; generalship; leadership
to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)
this one; with this; in this way
personality; character; individuality; personhood
living person; the living
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
holding a sword above one's head (kendo posture); haughty attitude; overbearing manner
to stand upright with arms and/or legs spread; to dodge
end; conclusion; rounding up; revaluation
sweeping sideways; mowing down
to throw up (e.g. mud); to splash (up); to flip up; to tip up; to raise sharply (e.g. prices); to hike
to attack; to go for; to come at; to pounce on; to jump on; to swoop down on
nimble; agile; quick; quick (thinking); smart; alert
along (a wall, river, railroad tracks, etc.); alongside; following
changing completely; transformation
to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other
sky burial (funeral ritual in which the body of the deceased is exposed to be eaten by birds)
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
line of defence (defense); lines (as in enemy lines, etc.)
law; rule; regulation; destiny; fate; karma
principal street; main street; major road; thoroughfare
abandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender
summons; subpoena; citation; summoning (a spirit, demon, etc.); evocation; invocation
head over heels; madly (in love)
to intertwine; to become entangled; to get tangled (together); to become intertwined (of matters, interests, etc.); to become connected; to become linked
start of a romance; beginning of love
brake; drag; skid; brake (on inflation, spending, etc.); check; restraint
field battle; field operations; open battle; battlefield; battlefront
trouble; bother; number of moves; number of punches; number of liberties
rival; opponent; revenge; (arch.) spouse
the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive
substance; true form; main part; main unit; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.); noumenon
thickheaded; slow-witted; phlegmatic; slow (of one's movements); sluggish
hand used like a sword in striking
dangerous person; security risk; loose cannon
masterpiece; masterwork; crowning work; one's magnum opus; work of the highest quality