jpdb beta

head house; main family; founder (of a certain school, style, etc.); originator; birthplace

2

the other day; lately; recently

3

to become like a different person; to have a change in personality

1

large fire

1

whether or not

2

fork; junction; parting of the ways; turning point

1

to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to

2

opening of a meeting

1

look; glance; (at first) sight

1

to turn over; to change (one's mind); to reverse (one's decision); to fly (a flag); to let (a skirt, cape, etc.) flap in the wind

2

to be affectionate towards; to show tenderness towards; to treat tenderly; to love

3

maid

1

to join hands (with)

1

to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)

1

by all means; at all costs; absolutely

1

earthquake

1

shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word

7

the future; future prospects

1

notice; notification

2

(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red

1

continuance; survival; persistence; retention; duration

1

starting time

1

to be; to come; to go; to be (doing)

1

dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered

2

ignoring; bypassing; doing something without consultation; going over someone's head

1

at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can

2

collapse; break; cave-in; market decline; market crash

6

to keep a watchful eye on

1

eighty; 80

2

wing; Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); (arch.) counter for birds or bird wings

1

several houses

1

to flap (wings); to spread one's wings; to go out into the world

1

to be imaginable; to be conceivable

6

traditional cap worn by Shinto clergy and courtiers; crown; diadem; top kanji radical; first verse of a haikai, etc.; best; peerless

1

corner; edge; (street) corner; turning; rough edges (of one's character, words, etc.); abrasiveness

3

king; monarch; ruler; champion

1

slimy; slippery

1

the very picture of ...

1

reading with pleasure

1

absentmindedness; preoccupation; setting one's mind at ease; ceasing to worry; (arch.) loss of one's moral sense; (arch.) straying from virtue

2

to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct

2

to lead; to take the initiative; to take precedence (e.g. sadness taking precedence over anger); to be most essential

1

one plot (of land); one (city) block; one area; one brush stroke; one kanji stroke

1

to lie face-down

1

to burn completely; to consume (by fire); to burn to nothing; to burn to the ground; to reduce to ashes

3

dragon-head gargoyle; gutter spout

2

heating power; thermal power; firepower

2

to sit in a row; to be arrayed

3

frizzy (hair); wiry; sizzling; frizzling; stingingly (of heat or cold); painfully

2

artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)

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