Vocabulary: 北海道物语
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- manual; handbook
- first month of the lunar year
- master of the house; head of the family
- to report (news); report; CL:篇[pian1],份[fen4]
- New Year's Day
- Meiji, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (1868-1912) of the Meiji emperor
- (Shinto) shrine of especially high status (esp. an imperial shrine, e.g. Ise Grand Shrine)
- for the first time; first (meeting, attempt etc)
- to formally call on; to worship (a God); to pay homage to sb
- deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of
- to screen (a movie); to stage (a play); a screening; a staging
- theatrical piece; (fig.) scenario (in real life)
- to feel ashamed (idiom)
- (historical) shrine or altar for sacrifices to local or ancestral deities (in ancient China); Shinto shrine
- general manager; CEO
- cliff; rock
- name of a river; rushing of water
- to pay a New Year call; to wish sb a Happy New Year
- constant; unvarying; (math.) invariant
- convention; usual practice
- to taunt; to ridicule; to jeer at; to treat coldly; to abandon
- various kinds; all sorts
- to suffer unspeakable misery; indescribably painful; hellish
- to associate (with); to have contact (with); to hang out (with); to date; (interpersonal) relationship; association; contact
- vexed; distressed
- first day of the month; toilet; (slang) top (in a homosexual relationship)
- all day long; whole day
- 2nd day of the month
- midday; noon; noonday
- to act as go-between (between prospective marriage partners etc)
- twelve; 12
- 席 xí: 席 xi2: woven mat; seat; banquet; place in a democratic assembly; classifier for banquets, conversations etc席 Xí: 席 Xi2: surname Xi
- to be present; to be on the scene
- (coll.) father; dad; CL:位[wei4]
- 金 Jīn: 金 Jin1: surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean); Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)金 jīn: 金 jin1: gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- (haven't done sth) for a long time; a long time since we last met