jpdb beta

stinginess; miserliness; shabby; cheap; petty; narrow-minded

1

horse put out to pasture in spring; hobbyhorse

14

big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important

1

to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)

2

holiday; day on which prostitutes had to receive clients

4

lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful

1

guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests

6

to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)

1

prostitute; harlot

14

to save face; to keep face; to not lose face

1

previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance

2

bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)

1

have a good day; take care; see you

1

to get flustered; to get flurried; to get agitated; to become impatient; to hurry

4

prefix for forming ordinal numbers

2

banter; teasing; chaffing; merely asking the price; just looking at goods; window-shopping

1

oaf; bigot

1

rather than

1

unlucky day; evil day

1

cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless

2

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

2

long bath; staying in the bath for a long time

1

store; shop; establishment; restaurant

12

to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)

3

after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to

1

good-bye; farewell

1

to come together; to join; to get married; to become a married couple

2

to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

2

to work without sleep or rest

1

short-tempered; quick-tempered; hasty

1

particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

3

local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift

1

to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)

4

to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten

1

to be dead; to be lifeless

1

dagger; dirk

5

to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain

1

to dislocate one's back; to be unable to stand up due to fear or surprise

1

to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down

1

to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize

1

to tell a lie; to fib

2

murder; murderer

1

insolent fellow; rude fellow

1

however; but

14

suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

3

second floor; upstairs

3

going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

3

doomed (business, trade, etc.); in a bad state; poor

2

middle palace guard (ritsuryo system)

4

meeting place; club

4