jpdb beta

advice (to a superior); counsel; proposal; suggestion; recommendation

1

reluctantly; grudgingly; unwillingly

1

change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)

7

watch-keeping; guard; lookout

1

to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up

5

almost every day; almost daily

2

Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam

1

NICOLA

2

to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)

1

coarse; rough; crude

1

to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for

2

currying favour; being anxious to please; bootlicker

1

light; faint; pale; fleeting

2

custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example

1

love song

1

acknowledgment; acknowledgement; letter of thanks

3

tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)

2

postscript; post scriptum; PS; P.S.

1

to add (e.g. a postscript)

1

to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke

4

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

4

lily (Lilium spp.); yuri; genre of comics and novels about female homosexuality

1

to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)

2

forever; endlessly; on and on; meandering; wandering; winding

1

three times

1

to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by

2

tedious; boring; being fed up with

1

opening (for that day's business; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); opening (of a new library, museum, cinema, etc.)

1

unexpectedly; suddenly; abruptly

1

to show up; to appear; to turn up

1

to cause someone to worry

1

to become indisposed; to feel unwell; to have one's physical condition deteriorate

1

kurin; nine vertically stacked rings on a pagoda finial

1

to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.

1

one's business; reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha; bargain; discount; (arch.) money paid to a prostitute or geisha

1

disregarding; ignoring

2

tearfully; in tears; weeping; reluctantly; unwillingly; with a heavy heart

1

wooden box; wooden crate

2

consideration; inquiry; enquiry; investigation; study

1

opinion; point of view

1

in bad shape; not doing well; not going well; out of condition; in poor form

1

box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building

2

to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off

1

article to be delivered; present

1

packing; baling; crating

1

last day; final day

1

to bring to naught; to bring to nought; to abuse (esp. another's kindness); to empty; to clear

1

to teach thoroughly; to instill (into); to instil; to inculcate; to drum (into); to drill (into)

1

with eyes half-closed

1

ghastly; dreadful

1