jpdb beta

to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

1

grave; solemn; serious; harsh (e.g. truth); hard; strict

1

warm; mild; genial

1

very deeply

1

to attract; to be used to

1

to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to learn of (by chance)

2

to step forward; to volunteer

1

address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word

1

formulaic; stereotyped; hackneyed

1

one tenth; one hundredth; one percent; one tenth of a sun; one quarter ryō (an old coin)

1

gymnastics; physical exercises; artistic gymnastics; gymnastics competition; physical education (class); PE

3

departure

4

fixed date; appointed day

1

time; (the) hour; favourable time; opportunity; chance

3

holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)

1

seeing one off; farewell; escort

3

(within a) city; local

1

to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home); to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight; to let pass; to pass up (an opportunity etc.); to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.); to postpone

2

at once; immediately; right now

1

straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly

2

to be shy; to be bashful; to look shy

1

document; official papers

2

by the way; meanwhile; on the other hand

1

your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you

1

to nod to one another

1

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

1

irrigation

1

please ...

1

packing; baling; crating

1

maid; helper; help; assistance

4

evening meal

5

carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; ease

1

outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits

2

frontage; width (of a building, plot of land, etc.); breadth (e.g. of one's knowledge); scope (e.g. of one's work); range

1

two ken (approx. 3.6m)

1

store; shop

2

mosquito

5

groan; moan; roar; howl; hum (e.g. motor); buzz (e.g. bee, wire in wind)

2

buzz; hum; shake (with vigor); shaking

1

paste; glue; clothing starch

1

indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited; listless

1

worn-out; shabby; seedy; wrinkled-up; threadbare

1

yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe)

2

to open (e.g. one's robe); to bare (e.g. one's chest); to open up (of clothing); to be exposed; (arch.) to open wide (one's legs, eyes, mouth, etc.); (arch.) to stretch

1

chest hair; breast down

1

suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy

1

to put oneself on guard; to stand ready; to square off

1

small; little; few

1

both; (not) either

1

to become stiff (of muscles); to get absorbed in; to develop a passion for; to be elaborate; to be intricate

2