jpdb beta

to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by

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peace; harmony

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miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary

3

large-scale

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large-scale

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special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial

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show

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expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately

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exception

3

adult; grown-up

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drum

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ages; long time; decade; ten years (ago)

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sounding stone; qing; ancient Chinese chime shaped like a chevron (inverted 'v'), orig. of stone, today often metal, in Japan primarily used at Buddhist temples

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character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

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percussion instrument

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to ring; to clang

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inverted copper or iron bell shaped like a bowl (sounded when reciting sutras)

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bang; whump; boom

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

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to lure someone; to entice someone

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at full speed; as fast as one's legs can carry one

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to run off; to break into a run; to start running

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street stall; stand; booth

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to picture; to come into one's mind; to remember

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goldfish (Carassius auratus)

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to scoop; to ladle out

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pattern; design; body build; figure; essential qualities; character

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unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy

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shakudo; gold-copper alloy, often with a blue patina

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container; receptacle; vessel; packaging

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magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell

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cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss

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balloon (esp. small, toy variety); airship; blimp

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to swell; to expand; to inflate; to bulge

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hydrogen (H)

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compressed gas cylinder; aerosol spray can

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to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray

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whelk egg case; egg capsule of a gastropod

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Kansuke

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night stall; night shop; night fair

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ho-ho

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part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)

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hinoki leaf; hiba false arborvitae (species of cypress, Thujopsis dolabrata); small ornamental false cypress (i.e. a variety of hinoki or a related species)

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cheek (of face)

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quite; utterly; really; completely

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floating ball of fire (said to be the soul of a dead person); meteor; shooting star

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Korea

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tengu; long-nosed goblin; bragging; conceit; braggart

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naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive); naginata; martial art of wielding the naginata

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coriaceous; leathery

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