Kanji
Readingしぶ
Frequency82%
Used in (32 in total)
reluctantly; unwillingly
Shibuya, a special ward in Tokyo
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
to hesitate; to hold back; to be reluctant; to be unwilling; to have loose painful bowel movement; to suffer from tenesmus
grimace; sullen face
to frown (on); to be grim-faced; to look sullen
kakishibu; astringent persimmon juice used as a dye or to to treat wood, paper, etc.
astringency; tartness; austere elegance; elegant simplicity; subdued style
astringent persimmon
to grudge; to be stingy; to be unwilling to pay
strong or bitter (green) tea
to hesitate to say
inner, astringent skin (of a chestnut)
paper treated with astringent persimmon juice
tan (color, colour)
kakishibu; astringent persimmon juice used as a dye or to to treat wood, paper, etc.
tea incrustation; tea stains (on teeth, cups, etc.)
fan varnished with persimmon juice
to be reluctant to sell
reluctance to lend
to be unwilling to go out
to be reluctant to answer; to hesitate to answer
Shibuya-kei (pop music microgenre of the mid-late 1990s)
stingy person; miser; scrooge
removing the astringent taste (from persimmons)
bowel pains; painful loose bowels
urbane and good-looking woman
(a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs
(stock market) steadiness
Japanese dock (a plant) (Rumex japonicus)
to hold up; to be steady
aqueous iron rust