liking; taste; fancy; wish; desire; choice
a few hours; several hours; a couple of hours
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
to meet; to assemble; to congregate
to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither
to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour); to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
to go out to meet; to receive; to call for; to summon; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)
explanation; excuse; clarification; vindication; apology
idle slumber; indolence; inactivity
on the occasion of; at the time of
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
to become thin; to lose weight; to slim; to become impoverished (of soil); to become sterile; to become infertile
exquisite; superb; perfect; miraculous
rotation; making the rounds; spreading; effect; efficacy; by way of; via
to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)
feel (of a material); texture
to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely
weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday); kanji radical 73
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
it cannot be that ...; it is highly unlikely that ...; it is impossible that ...
exclusion; removal; elimination; clearing away; getting rid of
back (of a chair); backrest
to rise; to raise up; to straighten up; to sit up; to stand up
to nail (to something); to nail down; to bang (e.g. one's head); to knock; to throw (at a wall, on the floor, etc.); to fling (at)
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
one (thin, flat object); one sheet
flushing (of one's cheeks); dizziness; rush of blood to the head
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
improper; immodest; disgraceful; shameful; vulgar; low
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
face; looks; countenance; vestige; trace; reminder
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
laying one's head in someone's lap; using someone's lap for a pillow