to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death
tatami room; dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko
in accordance with; according to
wild beast; wild animal; brute
to talk or say too much; to go too far; to overstate; to exaggerate
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
charred; burnt black; scorched black
to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
indicates the target of an activity; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
product; produce; result; fruit
wonderful; astounding; marvellous
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
old age; age; old people; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) my humble self
swordsman; swordswoman; fencer
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
fruition; fructification; bearing fruit; bearing fruit (of efforts, plans, etc.); coming to fruition; yielding success
close connection; deep involvement; close relationship
(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)
to press a question; to cross-examine
anxiously; with anxious looks; with anxiety
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
tearoom; tea house; tea-ceremony room; tea arbour; tea arbor
slide (for projection); transparency; (microscope) slide; to slide; to slip; to shift (e.g. a group of items in a schedule)
attentive to detail; meticulous in one's work
floating ball of fire (said to be the soul of a dead person); meteor; shooting star
second (unit of time); arc second
to make a sound; to give off a sound; to hear a sound
having nothing to do; having time on one's hands (and not knowing what to do); being at a loose end; being bored
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
remembering; recollection; recall; to remember; to recall; to recollect
to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter