jpdb beta

technical; practical

3

limbs; arms and legs; body

1

admiration; appreciation; enjoyment; viewing (for pleasure)

1

age; era; period; date

3

little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)

10

man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend

7

dislike; detestation

1

appraisal; estimation; evaluation; setting prices

1

flush; blush

1

reply; response; answer

1

staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

2

historic; historical; traditional

2

meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence

2

mysteries of one's master's art; robes and a bowl (monk's key possessions auctioned off at his funeral); (fig.) transmission of the dharma from master to disciple (in Zen)

2

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

5

soon; in a moment; nearby; close; direct; spot transaction

3

to wonder; to puzzle oneself about; to feel anxious about; to suspect; to doubt

4

to be taken aback; to be astonished; to be dumbfounded

6

to go out and away; to leave

7

to pierce through; to break through

3

end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring

3

madness; insanity

6

to get into a panic; to be flustered; to panic; to get in a flap

2

to tidy up; to put in order; to settle (problem); to clear (dispute); to finish; to bring something to an end

7

cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang

2

soft voice

1

buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end

2

only; nothing but

2

dizziness (from standing up too fast); orthostatic syncope; lightheadedness; vertigo

1

compression; condensation; constriction; compaction

2

broken egg

1

come, come; come; come now; here you go; here; when handing something

1

to move; to put elsewhere; to tidy; to put in order

1

surprisingly; stunningly; astonishingly; wonderfully

1

to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with

1

leaving early

2

to be smeared; to be covered

1

Sei Shonagon (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)

1

The Pillow Book (by Sei Shonagon)

2

Pleiades star cluster

1

to meet; to assemble; to congregate

1

to be born; to come into this world

1

difficult delivery; difficult childbirth; dystocia

1

stillbirth

1

good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show

2

end of a book

1

innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine

1

Japanese dog breed (e.g. Shiba, Akita)

1

nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all

3

diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)

1