to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
entering a room; studying under a Buddhist teacher
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
real thing; original; actual
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
beautiful; pretty; lovely; sweet; pure (heart, friendship, etc.)
movement; move; motion; trend; development; change
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
indeed; really; very; extremely; absolutely; certainly
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
glance; look; glimpse; complete view; bird's-eye view
tag; label; game of tag; tag-team match; working together as a team
printing (text or symbols); typing; printed character; typed character; character carved onto a seal
use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else
devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
excluding; except (for); apart from; outside (a boundary, scope, etc.)
to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate
method; way; manner; process; procedure; means
result; effect; performance; workmanship (of an article); execution; shape and quality
to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first
to meet (someone of higher status); (arch.) to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); (arch.) to be visible; (arch.) to be seen
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
to be; to come; to go; to be (doing)
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
voice; speech; phone (as opposed to a phoneme); speech sound; audio; sound (as opposed to the picture)
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
to talk; to chat; to chatter
to name; to call; to christen; to term
feeling; sense; impression
to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. an idea); to accept (e.g. advice); to harvest; to reap
to suit; to match; to become; to be like
calm; composed; cool; quiet
funny; amusing; strange; odd; wrong; unsuitable
there is no need to ...; never happens; there is never a time when
Japanese name (esp. for a plant or animal)
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive