jpdb beta

improvement (e.g. in skill, ability); advance; progress; communication of opinions of the general populace to those of high rank

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decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly

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to get angry

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number one; first; best; most; game; round

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skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery

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great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough

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to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still

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heh-heh; hee-hee; ha ha; (arch.) female genitals; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) vulva

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example; role model

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the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street"); street; district; location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)

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famous; notorious; noted

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bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building

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secondhand bookshop; secondhand bookstore; secondhand bookseller

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to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)

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wording (esp. of written text); classical Chinese literary style; traditional written Chinese

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at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money

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having in mind; happening to know of; idea

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Koga

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something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another

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Shuzen

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to be helpful; to be useful

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gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn

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fate; destiny

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to decide; to determine

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sure; yeah; I know

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generous; soft-hearted; having a good personality

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spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful

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Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi

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to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to beg; to make a supplication; to see (something or someone of high status)

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tag; slip; label; sticker

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pencil

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to persevere; to keep at something (regardless of one's fatigue)

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to be (doing)

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foolish talk; idle talk

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to get (someone's) help; to ask for help

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alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)

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to become complicated

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pursuer; pursuing party; posse

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to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)

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trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support

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means; method

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opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows

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somehow; for some reason; without knowing why

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sightseeing; watching; viewing; sightseer; watcher; spectator

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I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)

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to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up

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type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection

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to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

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to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)

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as usual; as always; as before; as ever; still

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