jpdb beta

to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate

1

to confide; to reveal; to disclose; to lay bare; to speak frankly; to open (one's heart)

4

to become hungry

4

wolf (Canis lupus); wolf in sheep's clothing; womanizer

1

rice ball

1

ending; conclusion; join; union; knot; knotting

1

place near the mountains; hilly section of a city (e.g. Tokyo, Kobe, Yokohama)

2

evergreen tree; conifer; pine and cypress; duty; constancy

2

life; living; I; me; student

1

complexity; frequency; trouble; traditional Chinese character; unsimplified Chinese character

1

delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient

1

traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless

1

sattva (being); bodhisattva

1

kuma bamboo grass (Sasa veitchii); Veitch's bamboo

2

bare feet

2

nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail); claw; plectrum; pick; hook; clasp

3

to tear off; to rip off; to peel off

1

shin; shank; lower leg

1

shin; front of lower leg

1

(in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song

6

frightening; terrifying

1

covered in blood; bloodstained; bloody; gory

1

hamachi; young Japanese amberjack; young yellowtail

2

darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy

3

tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber

2

to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)

1

thickly; densely; luxuriantly

1

forest; shrine grove

4

estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately

1

cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation

1

pipe; tube

4

haunted mansion; haunted house; enchanted house

1

wrasse (any fish of family Labridae)

2

flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event

1

log bridge

1

cemetery

2

wet nurse; nursing mother

1

to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something

2

foundation stone; cornerstone

2

hermit's cell; retreat

2

old temple

2

(Oh) dear!; (Oh) dear me!; Good gracious

1

cornerstone; foundation stone

1

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

4

owner of a hermitage; abbess; prioress; nun in charge of a Buddhist convent

3

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

2

drifting; drift; being adrift

1

gradually; by degrees; the sight of a tall soaring rock; crying; weeping

6

suspicious

2

stopping one night

1