jpdb beta

sickle-shaped; falciform

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beak; bill

8

neck; head; dismissal; discharge

1

to grow long (e.g. hair, nails); to lengthen; to extend; to reach out; to hold out; to straighten; to smooth out

1

figure; form; appearance; dress; state; condition

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foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; (arch.) money

1

short; brief

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guess; conjecture; surmise

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Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon); crested ibis

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nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible

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indicates question

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Niigata (city, prefecture)

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prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)

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that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage

2

prefectural bird

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Japan

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wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I

1

individual; specimen

1

extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out

1

Sado (former province located on Sado Island in present-day Niigata Prefecture); Sado (island, Niigata Prefecture)

5

setting free a bird; bird to be set free

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counter for birds, rabbits, etc.

1

approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like

2

restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence

1

to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk

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to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience

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to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at

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to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause

2

part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties

4

beyond that point; after that

2

to serve; to work for; to attend

2

to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)

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

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mission; errand; task; duty; obligation

2

existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have

1

receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death

1

and; and then; thus; and now; and finally

1

counter for people

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apostle; disciple

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origin; beginning

1

bell (often a large hanging bell); chime

3

the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come

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to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

1

children

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school bus (for kindergarten children); kindergarten bus

1

the whole country

1

newborn baby

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to feel around for; to fumble for; to investigate; to probe into; to explore (parts unknown); to enjoy (natural beauty)

1

parent; parents; dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner

2

to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize

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