exquisite skill; wonderful performance
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Scaphium affine)
cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume
to be titled (e.g. a book); to be named
grounds; foundation; authority; support; prop; something upon which to rely
colleagues; cronies; merry men
to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)
to miss (doing); to fail (to do); to do without
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
back and front; inside and outside; inside out (e.g. clothing); double-dealing; two faces (cf. two-faced); outward appearance and actual condition
depending on; dependent on
good or bad luck; fortune
in detail; minutely; at great length; unceasing; continuous; unbroken
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
to dazzle one's eyes; to hold one's gaze; to fascinate; to captivate
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms period (of Korean history, 57 BCE-668 CE)
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
masterpiece; masterwork; chef d'oeuvre; (unintentionally) hilarious; absurd (e.g. blunder); outrageous
round coin with a (square) hole in the center; coin made of non-precious materials; money
battlefield; battleground
practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis
prominent; eminent; leading; foremost; distinguished
flag; banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
crest of the Sanada clan (featuring six sen coins, trad. to pay for crossing the Sanzu River)
cosmic dual forces; yin and yang; sun and moon; positive and negative (magnetic poles, electric terminals, etc.); cathode and anode
to be based (on); to be founded (on); to be grounded (on); to be due to; to come (from); to arise (from)
daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision
shopkeeper; storekeeper; proprietor of a shop
loach (any fish of family Cobitidae); weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus); pond loach
to grow; to cultivate; to let grow (e.g. weeds)
to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to cozy up (to); to butter up
cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack
to underrate; to make light of
pump priming; cause; impetus; spark