(young) hoodlum; delinquent boy; small-time yakuza; brat; little shit
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
bank; banking institution
in its entirety; whole; wholly
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
stimulant (e.g. psychoactive drugs like methamphetamine, ritalin, etc.)
smuggling; bootlegging; illicit trade
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
please (give me); please (do for me)
senior high school student
here and there; in places
to have an idea; to have a clue
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
irritating; aggravating; upsetting
tail and fins; embellishment (of a story, rumor, etc.); exaggeration
feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled
to be upset; to lose one's composure; to lose self-control; to put in disorder; to mess up; to disturb
to become one tile away from completion; to be at one's wits' end; to be about to blow one's fuse
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
tone (of voice); manner of talking
feeling obliged; being grateful; being thankful; (arch.) shrinking back in fear
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
stage fright; social anxiety disorder; social phobia
shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)
how much; how many; however (much); no matter how; what matters is ...; it all comes down to ...
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to press a question; to cross-examine
from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; first volume (e.g. book); superior quality; best
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
to hold one's tongue; to shut up
flapping (of a flag, fan, etc.); fluttering; pitter-patter (of footsteps); quickly (making progress); in quick succession