jpdb beta

imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-

19

conclusion; decision; judgement; affirmative

8

sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered

1

one's own handwriting; autograph; holograph

4

um; er; nuh-uh; no; oof

2

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

3

ninth day of the month; nine days

4

diary

1

topmost

1

to get on; to climb on

2

to bring (somebody into a place); to lead into

7

contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import

4

Genji

265

random thoughts; occasional thoughts; desultory thoughts

1

skimming through; scanning (reading matter)

2

mescaline

4

hallucination; illusion

3

pen writing; character written with a pen

1

in detail; with great care; completely; fully

2

careful reading; reading thoroughly; perusal

1

thought; idea; conception

3

kanji; Chinese character

2

kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)

1

intentionally; deliberately; designedly; especially; particularly

4

old-fashioned; ancient-looking; time-worn

2

literary style; form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)

1

to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch

2

anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone

3

longing; yearning; aspiration; adoration

1

(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience

1

perception; sensation; awareness

1

one's impressions after reading a book

1

quotation; citation; reference

1

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

1

to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine

1

easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...

1

difficult to ...; hard to ...

2

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

1

fifteenth day of the month; fifteen days

2

annotation; explanatory note; comment

3

colour; color; hue; tints

8

sobriety; soberness; sober face

1

Adam

2

entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth

17

(in) one's own way

1

to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress

38

disregarding; ignoring

2

to invent a pretext for a quarrel; to pick a fight

2

(talk of a) moneymaking scheme; moneymaking idea; get-rich-quick proposal

1

indecent talk; dirty story

1