to exert oneself greatly; to take pains; to make efforts; to break a bone
to make efforts; to take pains; to break a bone
to be hard (to do); to be difficult; to require much effort; to be laborious; to be backbreaking; to have trouble (doing)
laborious; arduous; strenuous; painstaking; trying; taxing
boning (fish or meat); deboning; watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; taking the backbone out of; weakening
on the bone (meat, etc.); unboned; skeletal system; skeleton
having spirit; (being) staunch; having backbone
person of doubtful origin
person of doubtful origin
relaxation; recreation; recess
to the core; to the bone; (lit.) to the marrow
to be bony; to be angular
to feel keenly; to strike to the core; to touch to the quick; to pierce deep inside (e.g. of cold)
cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
to die; (lit.) to become bones
to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)
pains; efforts; trouble; labor; labour; services
to collect the ashes of the deceased; to look after someone's affairs after he dies
boneless (of a fillet, etc.); without bone; lacking (moral) conviction; weak-principled; having no backbone
to draw breath; to take a rest after work; to have a breather; to take a break
fried fish bones (eaten as a snack)
bony; tough; plucky; spirited; hard to deal with
osteotomy; finely cutting a fish to cut up its small bones
to spare oneself; to spare oneself the trouble; (arch.) to nullify someone's efforts
to chill one's bones (e.g. because of cold, pain, etc.); to be very cold; to be scathing
to engrave in one's heart; (lit.) to inscribe on one's bones
Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)
to spare oneself (the trouble)
separation of the meat from the bones; ease of filleting; ease of boning
bone scan; bone scintigraphy
kanji "bone" radical at left
something that one would not expect to exist; something exceedingly rare; (lit.) jellyfish bones
bone oil; clarified bone stock