jpdb beta

natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder

1

showing one's face in public; facing another person

1

spite; resentment

4

personal expenses; pocket money; spending money; incidental expenses; allowance

1

dangling; aimlessly; casually; unexpectedly

1

let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...

2

rain shower in late autumn (fall) or early winter; seasonable rain

4

temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room

3

parroting back; repeating (something one was told) like a parrot

2

show me

1

to blink (one's eyes); to wink; to bat

2

all sides; the four cardinal directions and the four ordinal directions; large hanging lantern

5

question; inquiry; enquiry

1

the person concerned; the person in question; the said person

1

to squat; to crouch

3

to make sure; to make doubly sure

1

how; in what way; how about; questionable

3

stomach; breadbasket; inner man; dietary needs

2

empty; vacant; void

1

spineless; backboneless; timid; cowardly; weak-kneed

2

to speak (of something); to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything

1

hopeless; good-for-nothing; incorrigible; foolish; preposterous; absurd

1

unavoidable; inevitable

1

to snatch (at); to grab

1

surroundings; environs; circumference

2

food; foodstuff; prey; victim

3

pistol; revolver

1

mantra; Shingon sect (of Buddhism)

2

new word; neologism; word of recent origin; recent word; modern term

2

writer of haikai poems

1

loitering; roaming; sauntering; wandering about; prowling

1

arbor; arbour; suffix forming the final part of the pseudonyms of some writers and performers; suffix forming the final part of the name of a restaurant

2

home; family; household

3

poetic meeting

5

shrine; palace; imperial residence; Imperial prince; Imperial princess; headboard with built-in shelves, drawers, etc.

8

spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job)

1

plain, white silk; prime

1

tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)

1

gathering; meeting; assembly; collection; attendance

1

stationery; pen and ink; writing materials

1

to compose a haiku poem

2

laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem

2

shoji paper

1

judge

1

long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle

6

to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute

3

piece of paper; slip of paper; strip of paper; scrap of paper

1

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.

10

silence; stillness; quietness

3

regrettable; disappointing; precious; dear; too good for; deserving better

1