strenuous effort; hard struggle; working hard; hard fighting; fierce fighting
to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to be prudent; to be complete; to be thorough
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
tendency; trend; inclination
to distort; to strain (an interpretation); to stretch (the meaning of a word)
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
vitality; (one's) life force
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
to straighten up; to sit upright
exposed; scanty; bare; public; open
slowly; tardily; complaining; grumbling; unsettled (e.g. weather); loose
stabbing through; plunging into; sticking right into; sinking into (mud, water, etc.)
to be slippery; to be slimy; (arch.) to behave charmingly; (arch.) to walk merrily
stickiness; viscosity; glutinosity
one color; one kind; one tendency; being the sole mood, sentiment, focus of attention, etc.
to steal another's spouse; to steal another's lover
critical condition; being on the verge of death
looking for something; searching for something; object being sought
spiderweb; spider web; spider's web; cobweb
purple; violet; purple gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon); red gromwell; soy sauce
gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; wide open; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); gobbling up
to freeze; to become frozen; to freeze over
to become decrepit; to become senile
fingertip; finger; toe tip; toe
to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine
hand used like a sword in striking
peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times
astonishing; amazing; surprising; wonderful
to burn; to burn down; to be roasted; to be thoroughly cooked; to be sunburnt; to fade (in the sun); to glow red (i.e. of the sky at sunset)
iron plate; steel plate; sure thing; certain winner
to be sore; to be inflamed; to be bleary; to be dissipated; to be dissolute; to indulge in
dirty-looking; filthy; disgusting; squalid
balloon (toy or decoration); balloon (hot-air or gas)
to fall on one's backside; to land on one's rear
cut end; section; opening; slit
to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another