jpdb beta

minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)

3

noshi; long thin strip of dried abalone in folded patterned paper, attached to a gift

2

loan; lending

2

time (three times, each time, etc.); times

3

argument; discussion; dispute; controversy

1

to declare; to assert; to say bluntly; to say straight out

2

unnatural; artificial; affected; strained

1

ground; earth; grounding; touching the ground; landing (an airplane)

2

zooming in; close-up

1

please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if

1

cloud of dust

2

self first; striving to be first; scrambling for

1

equipment; device; installation; stage setting

2

drop-by-drop; dripping; incessantly (esp. speaking, e.g. complaints, compliments); in great profusion; sluggishly; dawdling

1

speeding up; speed-up

1

irritating; frustrating

2

foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury

1

mere; simple; sheer

1

not only ... (but also); not just; as well as

1

rumble in the ground

2

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

1

block (solid piece of material); chunk (e.g. of meat); concrete block; (interlocking) toy blocks; (printing) block; block (area of a city); blocking (e.g. the way)

2

rock; boulder; crag

1

to shoot (a gun, person, etc.); to fire

1

extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of

2

feeling; sensation; mood

2

floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)

2

neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing

1

bus; bus

2

to sleep like a log; to sleep deeply

1

similar to; like

1

displeasure; discomfort; unpleasantness; indisposition; ailment

1

restriction; restraint; binding; constraint

3

to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses

3

interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt

3

learning by ear; memory of having heard something before

2

sense of caution; wariness

1

waking up; awakening; arousal; disillusion; disillusionment; awakening

3

surroundings; environs; circumference

1

pitch-dark; pitch-black; completely dark; very bleak (future); utterly hopeless

1

reflection; reflected light; reflected heat; glare

1

machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus

4

faint; indistinct; dim; vague; subtle; delicate

1

to illuminate; to shine a light on; to light up

1

white clothes; white robe; white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.); commoner without rank (in ancient China); layperson

3

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

1

narrow (blade); slender (figure, build); thin

1

ruffled (hair, brush bristles, etc.); unkempt; dishevelled; idling away time; dawdling; dilly-dallying

1

round frame glasses; round-lensed eyeglasses

1

nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things

2