jpdb beta

tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable

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to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

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half a year; six months

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salary reduction; salary cut

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self restraint; moderating one's behaviour; penitence; confinement to one's home; house arrest

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through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)

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written explanation; written apology

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tolerant; generous; lenient; broad-minded; magnanimous

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changing assignments

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to keep away; to keep at a distance

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management; administration; operation; running (business); conducting

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painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

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skilled; skillful; skilful; competent; capable; good

1

unnatural; affected; studied; forced

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but; however; provided that

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to look down on (someone); to make fun of; to put down; to treat with contempt; to underestimate

1

degree of exposure

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promotional video; music video; page view

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to hate; to dislike

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end (of a street, hallway, etc.)

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sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness

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at the very beginning of one's speech; the first thing (one) says after opening the mouth

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discharge; dismissal

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relief; reassurance; recognition of right to land ownership (by the shogunate, a feudal lord, etc.); (arch.) living safely surrounded by walls

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without penalty; acquittal; impunity

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to be the case that

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in a quarrel, both parties are to blame

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warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai

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manly; sportsmanlike; pure (heart, actions, etc.); upright; (arch.) unsullied (e.g. scenery or object); (arch.) pure

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to commit seppuku; to commit harakiri; to take responsibility (and resign); (arch.) to laugh until one splits one's side

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grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)

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ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son

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having an ancient and honorable origin

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farmer; peasant; farming; the common people

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family tree

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to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

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common foot soldier (feudal Japan); samurai of the lowest rank

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to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink

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main question; real issue at hand

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off duty

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shopping; purchased goods

2

line (of text); row; carya (austerities); samskara (formations); semi-cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); running style

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car; automobile; vehicle; wheel

2

cutting in two with a single stroke; taking decisive action; dealing with decisively; cutting the (Gordian) knot

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to stay indoors; to be confined indoors

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lunch; midday meal

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to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty

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flounder (esp. the large-tooth flounders of family Paralichthyidae, but also lefteye flounders of family Bothidae); bastard halibut; olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)

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to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address

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local specialty; local special dish

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