jpdb beta

contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import

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left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one

2

impossible

1

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

3

to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate

1

only; nothing but

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decider; person who decides; deciding factor; clincher; trump card

1

stroke order

4

writing brush; paintbrush; writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; writing (composing text); the written word

5

progress; pace; carriage; step; stage

2

bar set in a horizontal position; horizontal bar

3

to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)

1

sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string

2

to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow

3

whether or not

1

to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study

4

people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos

3

most; extremely

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basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation

2

to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone

1

kanji; Chinese character

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letter by letter; character by character

1

back; rear; background; behind the scenes

1

left-hand radical of a character

1

right-hand radical of a character

1

was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...

1

concern; interest

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to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)

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with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names

2

to strike; to clap; to play drums; to abuse; to bash; to consult; to sound out

3

(all) at once; at the same time; in one go; right away; in an instant

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to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)

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each time it happens; at all such times

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the way in which something came about; origin; structure; organization; the way something is constructed

4

the six classes of (kanji) characters; Hexateuch (first six books of the Hebrew Bible)

5

to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)

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avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)

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hieroglyphics; type of character representing pictures

3

indicative (kanji whose shape is based on logical representation of an abstract idea)

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compound ideograph formation (one of the six kanji classifications); making kanji up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)

4

phono-semantic character; kanji consisting of a semantic and a phonetic element

4

applying an extended meaning to a kanji

4

pardon; extenuation; borrowing; borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to write a similar-sounding word

4

hieroglyph; hieroglyphic character

3

form; shape; figure; visage

3

like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to

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things; affairs

1

combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination

3

symbol; code; sign; notation

1

to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

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