jpdb beta

rapids

1

heave-ho!; heave!

1

contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game

1

paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the Moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere)

1

approximation; having a close resemblance

25

d button; data button; button on a TV remote control for accessing programme information, weather, traffic, etc.

1

(courteous) invitation; call

1

shuriken; small throwing blade; throwing star

13

low price

1

beautiful weather; clear and cloudless sky; clear Japanese weather

1

scariest; most frightening

1

leadership competition; power struggle

1

each person; everybody

2

Ayano

1

lack of innovation; stupidity

1

just (applies to set number of items, instances, etc.)

1

fine weather

4

(one) leaf; (one) petal; piece (of paper); flake (of snow)

1

(something) stopper (e.g. geridome is medicine for diarrhea)

1

sixteen-day-old moon

20

race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku

1

Ure

1

Ouch!

1

easy

1

falcon (esp. the peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus)

39

splendid; praiseworthy; admirable; well done!; bravo!

10

firm adherence to one's principles; chastity (of a woman)

2

Hiroshi

4

fine play

1

to play a trick on; to cheat; to deceive; to dupe

1

last day of the month

1

flurry of snow in a clear sky; winter wind which brings scattered snowflakes or raindrops; skin eruptions cause by a cold or fever

28

hurricane

1

heave-ho!; heave!

1

whirr; hum; buzz; whoosh; woosh; whiz

2

dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward)

2

toe; toe (of a golf club)

1

manipulation; puppet

1

folding book; counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori); counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.; counter for pairs (of curtains); counter for tatami mats

1

blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature

1

seeing; meeting

1

cloud; crowd

1

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

1

ninja arts

18

Buran

2

ninjutsu; combat and stealth techniques used by ninja for espionage, sabotage, assassination, etc.

3

falcon (esp. the peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus)

3

black magic; black art; witchcraft; sorcery

2

phantasmagoric; protean; shape-shifting; kaleidoscopic; capable of ever-changing appearance

1

they

1