jpdb beta

district of a town; city block (of irregular size)

8

1,000; thousand

41

600; six hundred

2

house number; address

9

exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite

3

center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused

2

portion; section; part

4

first grandchild

2

to bear fruit

2

middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly

16

counter for places

1

to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

6

(any) particular; special; particularly noteworthy; worth mentioning

2

hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking

13

strange habit

1

spire; steeple; pinnacle; minaret

1

Japanese scull (oar attached to the rear of the boat by a traditional peg-in-hole oarlock)

1

tower; tall building; turret; lookout; (arch.) brothel

1

layout (of a house or apartment); arrangement of rooms

4

to be common

10

building

5

air-raid

3

to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire

2

at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)

1

mansion

1

500; five hundred; many

6

tsubo; traditional unit of land area, approx. 3.31 square meters; tsubo; traditional unit of fabric or paper area, approx. 9.18 square centimeters; tsubo; traditional unit of leather or tile area, approx. 918 square centimeters

3

garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area

17

irrespective of the occasion; indiscriminately

1

oak (esp. Quercus serrata)

1

Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech

2

sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima)

1

to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)

6

gloomy; dismal; miserable; spirit of yin

6

dim; gloomy

9

grand; imposing; magnificent

1

feeling; sense; impression

12

to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause

9

unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help

3

residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion

11

to fall completely silent; to become still as death

8

to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath

6

with an extreme cold (i.e. temperature); lonelily; lonesomely; (acting) coldly (toward someone)

2

gloomy; melancholy; dreary; depressed; dismal

1

air; atmosphere; mood; situation; someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all

16

plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit

3

living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood

3

to continue; to keep up; to keep on

88

consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice

25

next day

4