high-spirited; cheerful; assertive; vigorous
older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl
tonkatsu; breaded pork cutlet
moon viewing (esp. during the eight month of the lunar calendar)
udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles
mapo tofu (spicy Sichuan dish of tofu and minced meat)
crowded; packed; crammed; cramped; filled; overflowing
to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate
to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to be opposite; to face each other
to comb upwards; to brush up (a loose strand of hair); to turn up a lamp wick
way of eating; how to eat
to slurp; to sip (loudly); to sniffle; to sniff
how should I put it?; what shall I say?; well, you know; like
elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article
food; food products; foodstuffs
to eat up (completely); to put down (a rebellion); to suppress; (arch.) to make flat; (arch.) to level out
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
wasteful; a waste; too good; more than one deserves; impious; profane
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
stance; attitude; standpoint; stance; posture
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
rough; careless; slovenly; slipshod; rude; impolite
to put into the mouth; to eat
many; a lot; much; multitude
degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.); counter for occurrences; strength (of glasses); glasses prescription; alcohol content (percentage); alcohol by volume; extent
reconstruction; reorganization; reorganisation; reconstitution; reconfiguration
trend; course of action; directionality; directivity; directional; vectorial
attached; belonging (to); included; enclosed; affiliated; annexed