jpdb beta

head; chief; leader; the greatest of all; the most excellent

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to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful

1

estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately

2

to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included

1

Edo (shogunate capital, now Tokyo); Yedo

1

guardian; custodian

1

remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

5

spirit of a deceased person; the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit

5

ancestor; forefather; originator; pioneer; grandfather

3

upper floor; upstairs; top of the stairs

1

to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with

1

back (of a chair)

1

final

2

proponent; exponent; advocate

1

gods and Buddha; Shinto and Buddhism

1

minister of state

2

theory

2

construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation

1

three times

1

practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis (philosophy)

2

until now; still; yet; (not) yet; since

1

riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious

3

something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman

7

then; if so; if

4

to go through the proper procedures; to follow the required steps

1

in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

2

to come alive; to get going; to start to move

1

to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected

2

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

19

earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

22

(metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto); the centre or seat (of) (center); (government) office; fu; historical administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam

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to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)

2

being startled

2

to look up

2

so; like that; that's right; indeed; let me see...

2

rites; ritual

4

secret ceremony; ritual; sanctum sanctorum

3

edition; version; plate; block; editions of a publication

3

palace room for government officials; fellow; set (of people); clan

1

the heavens

1

gods

3

above ground; on the ground; earth's surface; this world; this earth

3

hades; realm of the dead

1

dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding

1

enshrined deity

1

seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand

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to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship

1

to place (in relation to the whole); to rank; to position; to locate

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by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing

4

becoming a mere shell; becoming a dead letter; losing (one's) substance; being reduced to a formality

1