jpdb beta

four thousand; 4,000

2

8000; eight thousand; many

1

head

1

to kick away; to kick off; to kick hard; to refuse curtly; to reject outright

4

to hang one's head; to droop one's head

1

forming a four-of-a-kind; declaring a kong

1

to open one's eyes wide (in astonishment, wonder, etc.); to be wide-eyed; to be amazed

2

win worth 12000 points (or, if dealer, 18000 points)

3

oar; all; (pulling an) all-nighter; staying up all night long

1

scarce; few remaining

1

scoring stick; counter; chip

1

(in the) presence (of); in front (of); before (someone)

2

half flush; winning hand containing one suit and honor tiles

1

value honor; round wind, seat wind, and dragon tiles; winning hand containing one kong (or pung) of a value honor

1

pair (as part of a winning hand, together with four melds); eyes

1

rīchi; declaring that one is one tile away from winning while one's hand is completely concealed; being one step away from completing something (winning, losing, game over, etc.)

3

win worth 16000 points (or, if dealer, 24000 points)

1

mule

1

opposite player; opposite side; (person) directly opposite

2

winning hand with at least one terminal or honor tile in each set

1

tenpai; fishing (i.e. needing one more tile for completion)

1

disadvantageous; long (odds)

2

why; how

1

to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard

1

(Western) playing cards

1

doctor

31

founder

3

tabletop game; table game

1

hanafuda; flower cards; playing cards consisting of 12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower

1

market price; speculation (e.g. on stocks); reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation

2

crumpled; rumpled; to be annoyed; to be irritated; noisily (chewing)

5

to repay double the original amount; to repay x times the original amount

1

to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)

7

useless member of society; hopeless case; failure

2

to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck

1

to cling to

4

same feeling; same sentiment; same opinion; sympathy; agreement; concurrence

3

fragment; splinter; wane (of the Moon)

1

provocative; incendiary; inflammatory; suggestive; lascivious; risqué

6

tile

2

gently; mildly; leniently; don't be too hard on me (us, them); go easy on me

1

inside a plane; in-flight

7

mortar

1

how can (one) do something

1

corpse; kanji "corpse" radical

1

serious; severe; grave; acute

8

does not seem (to be)

1

meeting; greeting; welcome

2

transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover

1

captain (of an aircraft)

3