Vocabulary

raising of a loan; loan floatation

release (from custody); discharge; liberation; setting free; letting go; letting off

North America

every hour; hourly

one stroke (of a brush)

8th in rank; eighth sign of the Chinese calendar

front tooth; foretooth; incisor

recommendation (by others)

adjutant; aide; aide-de-camp

third rank; third class; third person (in a contract, etc.)

night chat; tale told at night

love song; love poem

charge (of something); matter in one's charge; (one's) assignment; (one's) job

negation; denial; negative

unrequited love; one-sided love

rolled egg; rolled omelette (omelet)

huge rock

hope of success; prospects of success

rising; exacerbated; exasperated; accelerated; aggravated

trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do)

underwater navigation

puppet; marionette

demon of ill health; disease

construction; building

bell-shaped bronze vessel of Yayoi period

wind direction

front shrine; hall of worship

joys and sorrows

document transmission

marsh land; swamp

actual profit; practical use; benefit

China

bad smell

fixing one's aim in life; deciding one's life goal

hand-copied sutras; copying of a sutra

deity; god

penmanship; calligraphy

first grandchild

good wife

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