to live through; to survive
food; provisions; nourishment (mental, spiritual, etc.); sustenance (e.g. of one's life); source of encouragement
flaunting; showing off; display (of power, wealth, etc.); ostentation
advantage; advantage (in soccer, rugby, etc.); advantage rule; advantage (in tennis)
cheating; deception; trickery; manipulation; juggling; falsifying
broad (view, perspective, etc.); wide; large
to detain; to take into custody
deadly serious; deadly earnest
synopsis; plot; outline; plan; scheme; program
many obstacles; innumerable difficulties
(arch.) to push aside; (arch.) to overcome (e.g. difficulties); to align; to put in order; to push open
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
pie in the sky; castles in the air; (lit.) drawing of a rice cake
thick; dull (blunt); viscous
restricted; confined; unfree
long talk; long-winded speech
moving first; person with the first move; forestalling; (seizing the) initiative; sente; move that forces a response from the opponent, allowing the player to retain the initiative
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
prompt efficiency; immediate effectivity
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch
long talk; long-winded speech; long tongue (one of the thirty-two marks of a great man)
large build; large pattern
palm heel; heel of the palm
to scatter away; to blast away; to blow away (via explosion)
strange; odd; unusual; eccentric; peculiar
unkempt hair; disheveled hair; tousled hair
long sword (as opposed to the shorter katana); tachi; sabre-like sword worn on the hip with the blade facing down
ray (any fish of superorder Batoidea)
fairly wide; quite large; relatively spacious
western direction; Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise); western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana); the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)
Virupaksa (Buddhist deity)
Dragon King; promoted rook
head; chief; boss; leader
practitioner; specialist; man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai
silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow
flashy; gaudy; flamboyant