jpdb beta

scolding; rebuke; reprimand; fierce encouragement; exhorting

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knife blade; sword blade

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affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious

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beheading; decapitation

1

piece; slice; cloth; sharpness; agility; counter for scraps, pieces, etc.

1

to underrate; to belittle; to look down on; to despise

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mistake; error; fault; slip; blunder; omission

1

portrait; likeness; sketch (of a face)

1

agreement; rule

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only because ...; definitely not; certainly not; if actually

1

real name

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squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii); Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern); color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue); ancient women's hairstyle; clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern

7

prefix for forming ordinal numbers

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now that; since; so long as; because

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Iga (former province located in the west of present-day Mie Prefecture)

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(giving) birth; childbirth; native of; product of; assets; property

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300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster

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to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off

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concubine of an emperor; female court attendant who serves in the emperor's bedchamber

2

Western Liao (Central Asian Khitan empire, 1132-1211 CE)

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Liang dynasty (China, 502-557)

1

(roof) beam

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to memorize; to memorise; to recite from memory

1

afterbirth; placenta

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(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount

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half step; half a step

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all the more

1

to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate

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and yet; though; when; in spite of

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you; I; me; oneself

1

to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid

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sophistry; sophism

1

skin

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pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting

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action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation

1

sense; sensation; feeling; intuition

1

reason; logic; method; system; order

1

to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)

1

both; both sides; both parties

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slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out

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to play for time; to use delaying tactics

1

to wave one's hand

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bush; shrub

4

brush and ink; writing; drawing

2

thicket; coppice; brushwood

2

wild fox; (arch.) mythical fox spirit capable of possessing people

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afterwards

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the grass; grassy place (esp. with long dense grass)

2

to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)

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sense of sight; vision

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