white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
black; black stone; guilt; guilty person
clear; clear-cut; lucid; unequivocal; explicit
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
movie; film; motion picture
swing (of a golf club, tennis racket, etc.); swing; swing
than; rather than; instead of; from; out of; except
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
turning point; critical juncture; knot (in a tree, etc.)
moment; instant; just then; right at that moment; for a moment; for an instant
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
by myself; in person; by oneself
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
honorific/polite/humble prefix
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); feline; shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom (submissive partner of a homosexual relationship)
lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking
idea; thought; discretion; forgiveness; pardon
to send; to dispatch; to see (someone) off; to escort; to bid farewell to (the departed); to say goodbye to; to spend (time)
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
two persons; two people; pair; couple
close friendship; close friend; good friend; intimate relations; sexual intercourse; sex
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
already; previously; before; undeniably; unmistakably