jpdb beta

(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown

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to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry

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thank you; thanks

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always; all the time; never; usual; regular

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young; youthful; immature; green; low (number); small

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person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others

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thank you

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children

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middle-aged man; uncle

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sometimes; often

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you (plural)

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today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays

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there, there

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tempura; deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter

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to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)

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to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

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yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game

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shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

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shopkeeper; storekeeper; proprietor of a shop

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oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!

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expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...

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such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!

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(all) at once; at the same time; in one go; right away; in an instant

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boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad

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pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

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hi; yo

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to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post

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to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for

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Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan

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daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus); ham actor

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to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last

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goddamn idiot; moron; nitwit

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now; the present time; just now; another; more

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at work; in the midst of work; working

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it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...

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search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

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greengrocer; fruit and vegetable shop

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town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares

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popular person; favorite; favourite

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it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...

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to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

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each time; always; often; thank you for your continued patronage

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thank you

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tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing

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liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity

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to get drunk; to become intoxicated; to feel sick (e.g. in a vehicle); to become nauseated; to be elated; to be exalted

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wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)

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how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way

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is it?; isn't it?; be; is

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