jpdb beta

How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

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New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

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first shrine visit of New Year

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to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)

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special; auspicious; happy; naive; innocent; good-natured

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rumba

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grace (of God); divine favour; benefit; efficacy

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mandarin (esp. the satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu)); mandarin orange; tangerine; citrus (Citrus spp.)

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to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan

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sniff; sniff-sniff (esp. an animal); whining; whimpering

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as soon as...; just after...; immediately after...; hurriedly; in haste; quickly

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to do

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tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?

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to manipulate (someone); to make (someone) dance to one's tune; to lead astray; to make (someone) dance; to let dance

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source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis

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if

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net; netting; web

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New Year's card

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hanetsuki (Japanese badminton); battledore and shuttlecock

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badminton

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to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

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good-bye

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pasturing; letting (an animal) run loose; letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked

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New Year's pine decoration

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making frequent appearances; appearing often; appearing and disappearing

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one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit

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New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors)

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bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water

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taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix

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sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams

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the Monkey (ninth sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Monkey (around 4pm, 3-5pm, or 4-6pm); west-southwest; 7th month of the lunar calendar

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showman who trains performing monkeys

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to get excited; to be roused (to action); to get the itch (to do)

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reflection; reconsideration; introspection; regret; repentance; remorse

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to drink too much

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wobbling; tottering; wavering (e.g. over a decision); dithering; boiling up; dizzily

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seven vernal flowers (Java water dropwort, shepherd's purse, Jersey cudweed, common chickweed, Japanese nipplewort, turnip, and daikon)

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flash (esp. of a camera); flashlight; very short scene in a film or TV show; newsflash

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calling on someone who is ill; enquiry; inquiry

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Java water dropwort (Oenanthe javanica); Japanese parsley

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shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

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the five elements (in Chinese philosophy: wood, fire, earth, metal and water); the five phases; five practices of the Bodhisattvas; the five pillars of Islam

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the seven spring flowers; the seven fall flowers; the seven autumn flowers; the seventh of January; Festival of Seven Herbs

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fivestripe wrasse (Thalassoma quinquevittatum)

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henbit deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule); henbit; Japanese nipplewort (Lapsanastrum apogonoides)

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turnip (Brassica rapa)

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daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus) (primarily used in context of the seven spring herbs)

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to gain knowledge; to be illuminated; enlightening; informative; illuminating

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(short) rest; breather; break

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tiredness; fatigue

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