jpdb beta

diamond

1

diamond (mineral, gemstone); diamond; infield; diamond (card suit)

2

proof; evidence; sign; to testify (usu. Christian religious context)

1

milk-white; milky

1

wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect

1

wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect

2

unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful

2

that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game

1

forming a chow by picking up a tile discarded by another player

1

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

1

to stammer; to stutter

1

one (of a pair); incomplete; imperfect; few; little; off-centre

1

(on) land; ground; shore; track-and-field events

5

to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal

1

horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise

1

rustling; flapping; unkempt (hair, etc.); loose; dry; decisively

1

long hair

1

provocation; stirring up; arousal; excitement; stimulation

1

complexion; colour; color; blood red

1

small man

1

hakama; man's formal divided skirt

2

dark blue cloth with white splash patterns

1

dressing in kimono without hakama (for a man); dressing casually

1

poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

1

shabby; mean; sorry; dingy

1

good evening

2

faint smile

1

mere; simple; sheer

2

spectator; sightseer; onlooker

2

to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of

1

study; diligence; discount; reduction

1

no!; no no!; no, not at all

1

noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky

2

relative; relation; kin

1

end of a road; end of a street

1

grasshopper; locust (of superfamily Acridoidea)

1

grasshopper; locust (of superfamily Acridoidea)

1

overnight stay when traveling (travelling); sleeping on grass in an open field

2

frontmost; a short time ago; a little while ago; just now

3

section (i.e. of text); sentence; 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.

1

to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself

1

incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness

1

building; construction; group effort by Buddhist practitioners; group activities by a community (e.g. cleaning, etc.)

1

one's pocket

2

Maedakou Hiroichirō

1

failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later

1

third class

1

sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement

1

on inquiry; if inquiring

1

to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter

1