jpdb beta

vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry

1

existence; possession; having; limited company

1

balance

1

all year round

1

seductive; carnal; troubling; difficult; anxious; uneasy

1

three flat objects (sheets of paper, pieces of cloth, etc.); cutting a fish into two boneless fillets and a piece with the skeleton

3

Uriwari

1

revenge

1

duel; shoot-out

2

playwright; dramatist

1

protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household

4

blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings

3

to know; to understand; to be aware of; to consent; to agree

1

repetition mark in hiragana

1

disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment

2

ordinary person; average person; mediocre person

1

sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)

1

just; fair; proper; reasonable

1

June; sixth month of the lunar calendar

28

middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart

2

to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)

3

(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely

4

only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to

1

like this; this sort; this way

3

trilogy

1

to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall

2

another; one more; not quite; not very good; lacking

1

product; volume; area

8

fragment; scrap; piece; shred

1

by the end of this month; before the month is out; in the course of this month

3

summer vacation; summer holiday

2

north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind

1

to open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to open (for business, etc.); to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out

3

ventilation; communication (within an organisation); openness

1

lullaby

1

to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted

1

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.

1

(arch.) lowly person; (arch.) lowliness; I

1

loose; lenient; lax; gentle (curve, slope, etc.); slow; weak; soft

1

to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem

3

keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)

3

hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains

1

rotation; making the rounds; spreading; effect; efficacy; by way of; via

2

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

2

counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc.; (arch.) counter for boats

2

Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo); (Edo period) silver mint

2

billiards; pool; serial collisions (of cars)

1

Q; q

1

to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol

4

to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve

2