jpdb beta

March; third month of the lunar calendar

2

seasonal

3

present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)

3

graduate; alumnus

1

finding employment; getting a job

1

meaning; significance

1

to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

1

entry (on stage); appearance (on screen); entrance; introduction (into a market)

5

exit (from a stage); exeunt; leaving; exit

1

home; family; household

1

to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed

8

a little over; a little more than; powerhouse; one of the biggest; upper (seismic intensity)

4

nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing

5

kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat

11

delivery to the wrong house or person (email, postal items, etc.); false notification; mistaken notification; notifying somebody incorrectly

1

in (e.g. secret); with (e.g. success)

6

warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot

10

withdrawal; revocation; repeal; demolition; removal

1

state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances

14

futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

1

to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)

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to smoke (e.g. fire); to billow smoke; to smoulder; to be hazy; to look dim

2

platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala

4

there is nothing

8

habitual; customary

2

laziness; lazy person

5

emphasis-adding particle

5

bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer

5

thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack

22

pitching ability; counter for pitches

1

to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently

9

shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff

10

kanji "dotted cliff" radical (radical 53)

1

disk; disc; tray; shallow bowl; grid; board (e.g. in shogi)

2

dining table; a dish (type of food)

1

damp; humid; wet; gloomy; melancholy

1

dim; gloomy

3

to be reflected; to harmonize with (harmonise); to come out (photo); to be projected; to be displayed (on a screen)

4

rubbish heap; garbage dump

2

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

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(paper) cord for tying the hair

2

bilge water

7

to have an eye on; to zero in on

2

weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance

2

flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda

5

swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence (pretense); show; going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction

4

evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy

1

to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)

5

wild camellia (Camellia japonica); common camellia

5

seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be

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