jpdb beta

tattling; telling on (someone)

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smirkingly; smugly; broadly

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parent and child

2

play; sport; fun; caprice; joke; jest

3

untalkative; quiet; taciturn; reticent; uncommunicative

1

(school) subject; curriculum; course; item; heading; entry

1

overserious; deeply sincere; very earnest

2

laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem

3

opening line; opening line of a (Chinese) poem

1

to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem; to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

2

second verse (in a linked series of poems)

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.

4

lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end

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or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still

6

to line up; to put in a row; to add (to a group); to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.); to link; to put together

1

letter; writings

1

author

1

volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)

5

introduction of poems at a poetry party

1

aviation; flight; flying; to fly; to take a flight

1

after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)

1

oh; yes; huh?; hm?

4

aquatic; on the water

1

headwaters; source

1

to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to outweigh; to preponderate

1

summery mountain; mountain that is often climbed in summer

1

haze (esp. in spring); mist; dimness (of sight)

2

to wipe; to dry

4

bell (often a large hanging bell); chime

3

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

1

clearness; clarity; skillfulness (skilfulness)

1

spreading; laying out; security deposit; Japanese mattress

1

dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward)

1

frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair

2

to die (esp. foliage as winter approaches)

1

lukewarm; tepid; lenient

1

practice; practising; experience

1

pine cricket (Xenogryllus marmoratus); (arch.) bell cricket (Meloimorpha japonicus)

1

countries

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originally; primarily; essentially; intrinsically; proper; rightful

2

to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along

2

10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication

1

affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious

4

open-minded; receptive; free from preconceived ideas

2

to release (e.g. a film)

1

foresight; foreknowledge; intimation; premonition; prediction

1

demonstration; proof

1

reimbursement; compensation; reparation; indemnity

1

ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down

3

unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom

1