jpdb beta

one's old bones; old man

1

common people; ordinary people; masses

1

to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home

1

homecoming; return to one's home

1

whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")

3

a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family

6

(one) letter; (one) character

1

very much; exceedingly; extremely

1

originally

1

simply; merely; only; solely

1

same surname

1

dwelling; living

1

to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)

1

at that time; in those days; at that moment; then

3

older brother and younger sister

1

four people

1

second (in a series)

2

studying abroad; travelling to study; traveling to study

2

one's real mother

1

to leave this world; to die

1

second wife

3

14; fourteen

1

to be at a loss; to be puzzled

1

graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.)

2

from now on; in the future; hereafter; ahead of us; down the road

1

North China

5

the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street"); street; district; location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)

3

oral; verbal; spoken; parol

1

Shanghai (China)

3

Nanjing; Nanking; pumpkin; squash; Chinese; Southeast Asian

3

uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)

1

mother-in-law; foster mother; step mother

1

model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)

2

conscientious; scrupulous

1

birth; giving birth; creating; bringing into the world

1

famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

1

calamity; disaster; misfortune

3

wandering (e.g. bird, exile, lifestyle); wandering alone in a strange country

4

unobstructed view; perspective; forecast; outlook; insight; foresight

1

farmer; peasant

1

low (level, value, price, etc.)

2

household; home; family; housekeeping

1

tool; implement; means; furniture

1

having weak legs; slow walker

1

lower reaches (e.g. of a valley); downstream sector

1

fleeing in all directions; (in Japanese history, a reference to) farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes

1

purity; innocence

1

miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable

2

great person; eminent figure

1

to get too skinny

1