sky ; heaven ; God ; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth) ; deva (divine being of Buddhism) ; top (of a book) ; sole (of a Japanese sandal) ; beginning; start ; tempura ; India
ratio; proportion ; match; equal; equivalent; comparison ; compared with ...; relative to ... ; Philippines ; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
medium (size); average (grade, level, etc.); middle ; in; within; out of (e.g. ten people); among ; during; while; in (the course of); within (a period); throughout ; currently (doing); in the process of; in the middle of; under (e.g. construction, investigation) ; middle way; moderation ; second volume (of three) ; junior high school; middle school ; China
-ical; -ive; -al; -ic; -y ; -like; -ish; -sort of; -kind of ; (something) like; along the lines of ; -wise; in terms of; for; from the viewpoint of; from a ... standpoint; as far as ... is concerned ; Mr.; Ms.; Mrs.
Japanese league; ri; old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927 km or 2.44 miles ; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryō system; orig. of 50 homes) ; unit of area (approx. 654 m by 654 m)
large; big; great; huge; vast; major; important; serious; severe ; great; prominent; eminent; distinguished ; -sized; as big as; the size of ; university ; large (e.g. serving size); large option ; long month (i.e. having 31 days)
ogre; demon; oni ; spirit of a deceased person ; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.) ; it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.) ; Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) ; very; extremely; super-
thing; object; article; stuff; substance ; one's things; possessions; property; belongings ; things; something; anything; everything; nothing ; quality ; reason; the way of things ; used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen ; item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ... ; cause of ...; cause for ... ; somehow; somewhat; for some reason ; really; truly
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to attain ; to lead to (a place); to get to ; in the extreme case of ; to come; to arrive; to result in
capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government ; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light) ; location of the Imperial Palace
thing; matter ; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis ; circumstances; situation; state of affairs ; work; business; affair ; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to ; nominalizing suffix ; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ; alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or ; necessity; need ; you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...
one's body; one's person ; oneself; one's appearance ; one's place (in society, etc.); one's position ; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.); wood (as opposed to bark); blade (as opposed to its handle); container (as opposed to its lid)
section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph ; phrase ; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry) ; haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc. ; maxim; saying; idiom; expression ; clause (e.g. in a database query language)
to sit (down); to have a seat; to be seated; to kneel (on the floor) ; to assume (a position); to take on (a duty); to occupy (a post) ; to hold steady; to hold still