jpdb beta

nail; spike; tack; rivet; brad; (pachinko) pin

1

aptitude; aptness; suitability

1

decluttering; clearing out past accumulation; minimalism

1

to get up (e.g. from bed); to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life

1

to assort; to classify; to journalize (in accounting); to journalise

1

a size smaller

1

bra

2

I don't know; I don't understand

1

gym clothes; gym uniform; PE kit

4

to take out; to drag out

1

to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)

1

sprouting; budding; young shoot; moe; fascination; infatuation (esp. towards anime and manga characters)

1

laws (of nature); (divine) providence

1

classification; sorting (out); grouping; assortment journalizing (in bookkeeping)

1

worthlessness

1

unnecessary; unneeded

1

cleaning; scrubbing

1

to answer the phone

1

swiftly; rapidly; suddenly; abruptly; sharply (of a slope, bend, etc.); steeply

5

working adult; full-fledged member of society

2

landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household

1

to meet up (as arranged); to rendezvous; to get together; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together

1

mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better

1

cough; ahem

3

unity; solidarity

1

depending on; dependent on

1

news

3

dropping (of tears, dew, etc.); falling off; dropping off; inadvertently (coming to the surface); letting out (e.g. a secret)

1

thinking back now; looking back

2

cheek (of the face)

8

destined; predestined; fated; fateful

1

straight; upright; erect

1

ninety; 90

1

inch

1

New Year

4

soba noodles eaten at night on New Year's Eve

3

once a year

1

duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck

4

sirloin; pork loin

1

duck (meat)

8

scallion; green onion; spring onion

1

noodles with duck meat and Welsh onions

3

to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something

1

southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south); South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods); Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods); foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe); exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style); chili pepper; nanban

4

soba restaurant

3

Edo period (1603-1868)

1

coming to Japan; visit to Japan; arrival in Japan

1

katsuobushi; pieces of sliced dried bonito

1

cooking sake

2

dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process; brown sugar

1