jpdb beta

joint; knuckle; tune; melody; node (of a plant stem); joint

3

false accusation; trumped up-charge; pretext; statement that cannot be retracted; saying something one cannot take back

1

bean curd lees; soybean pulp; refuse from tofu; deutzia (Deutzia crenata)

2

artifice; wiles; trickery; art of a courtesan (esp. for seducing or deceiving customers); coquetry

1

to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired

3

to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)

1

crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe

1

partner (esp. in manzai); companion; partner for the night (e.g. at a brothel)

1

to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in

9

for today; for the time being

1

to take into one's possession; to receive; to take into one's care (e.g. person, pet); to take custody of; to leave; to go away

2

to do without being seen (by); to do behind (someone's) back; to do without the knowledge of (e.g. one's parents)

1

link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging

1

clandestine meeting (of lovers); assignation; tryst; (lovers') rendezvous

1

while; on the same occasion; at the same time; along with

1

on inquiry; if inquiring

1

safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction

5

while there is life, there is hope; without life, there is nothing; don't waste your life

1

thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow (i.e. bending of the body); bowing; reward

3

jealousy; envy

2

how many; how old

1

to get mended; to be repaired; to return to normal; to recover (e.g. one's temper); to be corrected; to get put right; to come right

2

brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost

4

to fall in love (with); to fall for; to be attracted (by); to be charmed (by); to forget oneself; to be entranced (by)

3

snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation

1

to hold a grudge; to hold something against someone

1

ill-natured; inconstancy

1

poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite

1

to obtain; to get; to procure; to win; to secure

2

mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth

1

to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved

1

to light (a fire); to kindle; to incite; to instigate; to stir up

1

person obsessed with thoughts of sex; being obsessed with love or lust

1

expression; presentation

1

surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance

3

to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree

1

both (people); the two of them

3

can't help worrying; besides myself with worry

1

no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook

1

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

1

to rub; to scrub; to repeatedly reuse (a joke, a topic of conversation, etc.); to milk; to mash (a button); to spam (a move)

1

hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently

7

but; however; although

2

quarrel; dispute; argument

1

to bear; to stand; to support; to withstand; to be fit for; to be equal to

1

to resign; to abandon; to step aside; to back out of; to retire; to get away

1

I; me

3

treasure chest; strongbox

1

bottom; sole; depths (e.g. of despair, the sea); bottom (of one's heart); limit; end

1

to put away; to stow away; to tuck away; to hoard

1