hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
good health; stopping misfortune; preventing disaster
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
voice; speech; phone (as opposed to a phoneme); speech sound; audio; sound (as opposed to the picture)
to breathe hard; to pant; to be out of breath
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
deterioration; getting worse; worsening; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
to break (into pieces); to be broken; to collapse; to crumble; to become less formal; to throw off reserve
call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
rough (touch, voice, etc.); coarse; gritty; rattling (of beans, beads, etc.)
in turns; in series; in order; by rotation
clearly; plainly; distinctly; decisively; flatly; definitely
besides; in addition; also; moreover
very popular; highly favoured
to make a sound with one's throat; to purr (of a cat)
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart
raptor; bird of prey; predatory bird
weak point; weakness; shortcoming; defect; flaw; sore spot
in an instant; in a flash; in the blink of an eye; in no time at all; just like that
to knock down; to shoot down; to lop off
shout; cry; outcry; yell; shriek; scream
simply; merely; only; solely
sword skills; swordsmanship
counter for parts, stages, installments, etc. (of a story, series, project, campaign, etc.); counter for bullets
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
to defend oneself; to protect oneself
at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can
to raise (a sword, fist, etc.); to lift; to throw up; to fling up; to swing up
to drop; to let fall; to omit
roar; cry (esp. of triumph); battle cry; screech (of a bird); scream; yawp
from out of nowhere; from who knows where
short sword; dagger; stiletto; hour hand (of a clock)