[なか, naka] (suf) (1) (See 並・1) medium; average; middle; (2) moderation; (3) (abbr) (See 中一, 中学校) middle school; (4) (abbr) (See 中国・1) China; (n-suf) (5) (See 中・じゅう・2) in; out of (e.g. three out of ten people); (6) (See 話し中) during (a certain time when one did or is doing something); under (construction, etc.); while; (P) #80
[くに, kuni] (n) (1) country; (the) state; (2) region; (3) (obs) (See 国郡里制) province (of Japan); (4) home (i.e. hometown, home country); (5) (arch) land; earth; (P) #117
[nara (P); naraba (P)] (aux) (1) (hypothetical form of the copula だ, from なり and sometimes classed as a particle) if; in case; if it is the case that; if it is true that; (2) (なら only) as for; on the topic of; (conj) (3) (col) (abbr) (See それなら) if that's the case; if so; that being the case; (4) (ならば only) if possible; if circumstances allow; (P) #141
[か, ka] (suf) (See 化する) action of making something; -ification #151
[け, ke] (n) { Buddh } lacking substance and existing in name only; something without substance #156
[ほう, hou] (n) (1) (also ほう) direction; way; (2) (hon) person; lady; gentleman; (n, n-suf) (3) method of; manner of; way of; (n-suf) (4) care of ..; (5) (also がた) person in charge of ..; (6) (also がた) side (e.g. "on my mother's side"); (P) #160
[ほう, hou] (n) (1) direction; way; side; area (in a particular direction); (2) side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; (3) type; category; (4) field (of study, etc.); (5) indicates one side of a comparison; (6) way; method; manner; means; (7) length (of each side of a square); (P) #160
[sore] (int) there! (used to call someone's attention to something) #171
[きん, kin] (n) (1) (See お金) money; (2) metal; (P) #176
[きん, kin] (n, n-suf) (1) gold; golden (color); metaphor for (most) valuable; gold (medal, cup); (2) money (written before an amount); (3) (abbr) (See 金曜) Friday; (4) (See 五行・1) metal (fourth of the five elements); (5) Jin (dynasty of China; 1115-1234 CE); (6) (abbr) (See 金将) gold general (shogi); (7) (abbr) (col) (See 金玉・きんたま) testicles; (suf, ctr) (8) karat; carat; (P) #176
[つかいかた, tsukaikata] (n) way to use something; treatment; management (of help); (P) #190
[みち, michi] (n) (1) road; street; way; path; course; route; lane; (2) distance; ways (e.g. "a long ways"); (3) the way (of proper conduct, etc.); one's way; morals; (4) teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma; (5) field (of medicine, etc.); subject; (6) way; method; means; (P) #201
[burokku] (vs) (1) to block (e.g. the way); (n) (2) block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.); (3) bloc; (n, vs) (4) { comp } block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape); (P) #214
[など, nado] (n, n-suf, prt) (1) (uk) et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth; (2) (indicating an approximate quote or vague suggestion) or something; (3) (lessening the significance or value of the previous word) the likes of; (P) #221
[まん(P);よろず, man (P); yorozu] (num) (1) (萬 is sometimes used in legal documents) 10, 000; ten thousand; (n, adj-no) (2) myriad; (n-adv) (3) (よろず only) everything; all; (n, adj-no) (4) (よろず only) (arch) various; (P) #245
[ほう, hou] (n, n-suf) (1) law; act; principle; (2) method; (3) { ling } mood; (4) { Buddh } dharma; (P) #273
[tai] (aux-adj) (1) (after the -masu stem of a verb) want to ... do something; would like to ...; (prt) (2) (kyu #303
[ほうほう, houhou] (n) method; process; manner; way; means; technique; (P) #316
[けん, ken] (n, n-suf) authority; right (to do something); (P) #325
[と, to] (n, adj-no) metropolitan; municipal #334
[みやこ, miyako] (n) capital; metropolis; (P) #334
[じ, ji] (n) (1) thing; matter; (2) incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; (3) circumstances; situation; state of affairs; (4) work; business; affair; (5) after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (n-suf) (6) (See 事・ごと・1) nominalizing suffix; (7) (See 事・ごと・2) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (P) #353
[もと, moto] (adv) (sometimes written 元) under (esp. influence or guidance); (P) #367
[だい, dai] (n) (1) substitution; (2) material; (3) price; (4) margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something; (5) (arch) (See 段) shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; ~19.83 m.sq.) #376
[かれ, kare] (n) (1) (uk) (See 何れ・1, 此れ・1, 其れ・1) that (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener (in space, time or psychologically), or something understood without naming it directly); (2) that person (used to refer to one's equals or inferiors); (3) (arch) over there; (4) (あれ only) (col) down there (i.e. one's genitals); (5) (あれ only) (col) period; menses; (int) (6) hey (expression of surprise or suspicion); eh?; (n) (7) that (something mentioned before which is distant psychologically or in terms of time); (P) #451
[ページ, pe-ji] (n) (uk) (頁 is sometimes ぺえじ or ぺいじ) page; (P) #463
[demo] (conj) (1) but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; (prt) (2) even; (3) however; no matter how; even if; even though; (4) ... or something; (5) (as 〜でも〜でも) either ... or ...; neither ... nor ...; (pref) (6) (before an occupation, etc.) pseudo-; quack; in-name-only; (7) (before an occupation, etc.) (See でもしか) for lack of anything better to do; (P) #474
[どおり, doori] (n-adv, n) (1) avenue; street; way; road; (2) coming and going; street traffic; (3) flow (of water, air, etc.); (4) transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice); (5) fame; reputation; popularity; (6) the same status or way; as (e.g. as expected, as I said); (7) understanding; comprehension; (ctr) (8) counter for sets of things; counter for methods, ways, types; (P) #493
[ふ, fu] (n) (1) (metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto); (2) the centre or seat (of) (center); (3) (government) office #506
[めん, men] (n) (1) face; (2) mask; face guard; (3) { MA } (in kendo) striking the head; (4) surface (esp. a geometrical surface); (5) page; (n, suf) (6) aspect; facet; side; (7) chamfer; (ctr) (8) counter for broad, flat objects, levels or stages, e.g. in a video game; (P) #530
[seru ; saseru] (aux-v, v1) (1) (せる is for 五段 verbs, させる for 一段; follows the imperfective form of (v5) and (vs) verbs; senses 1-3 of せる are sometimes abbreviated as 〜す) auxiliary verb indicating the causative; (2) (hum) (usu. as 〜(さ)せてもらう, 〜(さ)せていただく, etc.) auxiliary verb indicating that one has been granted the permission to do something; (3) auxiliary verb used to make verbs more "active"; (4) (hon) (as 〜(さ)せられる, 〜あら(さ)せられる, 〜(さ)せ給う, etc.) auxiliary verb used as an extreme honorific for others' actions #540
[がわ(P);かわ, gawa (P); kawa] (n, suf) (1) side (of something, or taking someone's side); part; (2) (watch) case; (P) #561
[で, de] (n, n-suf) (1) coming out; going out; outflow; efflux; rising (of the sun or moon); (2) attending (work); appearing (on stage); one's turn to go on; (3) start; beginning; (4) origins; background; person (or item) originating from ...; graduate of ...; native of ...; member of ... (lineage); (5) architectural member that projects outward; (6) highest point of the stern of a ship; (7) (uk) (usu. after the -masu stem of a verb as 〜出がある or 〜出がない, etc.) amount (comprising something); amount of time or effort required to do something; (P) #632
[しょう, shou] (pref) (1) (See 小皿) small; little; slight; (2) (See 小半日, 弱・じゃく・2) slightly less than; just about; (3) (See こざっぱり) somewhat; somehow; (4) (See 小役人) minor (sometimes derogatory); petty #659
[まる, maru] (n) (1) circle (sometimes used for zero); (2) (See ◎) (ant #677
[そつぎょう, sotsugyou] (n, vs, adj-no) (1) graduation; completion (e.g. of a course); (2) (col) outgrowing something; moving on; (P) #706
[じっし, jisshi] (n, vs) enforcement; implementation; putting into practice (practise); carrying out; operation; working (e.g. working parameters); enactment; (P) #768
[ふう, fuu] (adj-na, n, n-suf) (1) method; manner; way; style; (2) appearance; air; (3) tendency; (4) (See 六義・1) folk song (genre of the Shi Jing); (5) (See 五大・1) wind (one of the five elements); (P) #805
[tomo] (prt) (1) certainly; of course; to be sure; surely; (2) even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); though; although; (3) (with neg. verb) without even; without so much as; (4) (after an adverb) (See 遅くとも) at the (least, earliest, etc.); (5) (sometimes esp. an emphatic form of the particle と) (See と・1, と・2, と・3, と・4) emphatic particle; (P) #841
[ひょうか, hyouka] (n) (1) valuation; estimation; assessment; evaluation; (vs) (2) to value; to assess; to estimate value; (3) to appreciate; to value highly; to acknowledge the value (of something); (P) #865
[ko ; kko] (suf) (1) (abbr) (See 事・こと・6, 慣れっこ, ぺちゃんこ・1) doing; in such a state; (2) (See 睨めっこ・1) doing together; contest; match; (3) (fam) (See 餡こ・1) familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small") #880
[わけ, wake] (n) (uk) conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation; (P) #921
[メートル, me-toru] (n) (1) (uk) metre (fre #922
[よう, you] (n-suf, n) (1) (uk) (See 様だ) (usu. after the -masu stem of a verb) appearing ...; looking ...; (2) (usu. after the -masu stem of a verb) way to ...; method of ...ing; (3) (usu. after a noun) form; style; design; (4) (usu. after a noun) like; similar to; (n) (5) thing (thought or spoken); (P) #945
[はじめて, hajimete] (adv, adj-no) (1) (See 始める・1) for the first time; (adv) (2) (after the -te form of a verb) only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; (P) #1041
[や, ya] (suf) (1) (usu. 屋) (See パン屋) (something) shop; (2) (usu. 屋, can be derog.) (See 殺し屋) somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); (3) (usu. 屋) (See 照れ屋) somebody with a (certain) personality trait; (n) (4) (usu. 家) house; (5) roof #1042
[つかう, tsukau] (v5u, vt) (1) to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use; (2) (See 人使い) to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate; (3) to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume; (4) (See 言葉遣い) to use (language); to speak; (5) (id) to take (one's lunch); to circulate (bad money); (P) #1049
[ひら;ヒラ, hira ; hira] (n) (1) something broad and flat; palm of the hand; (2) common; ordinary; (3) (abbr) (See 平社員) low-ranking employee; freshman; novice; private #1054
[けいしき, keishiki] (n) (1) (See 形式張る) form (as opposed to substance); formality; (2) method; system; style; (3) (See ファイル形式) format; mode; appearance; form (something takes); (4) math expression; (P) #1072
[さと, sato] (n) (1) village; hamlet; (2) countryside; country; (3) (里 only) home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown; (4) (里 only) (See 御里) one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past #1164