jpdb beta

gentle; mild; meek; tender

1

bow; bowing

3

excuse me for disturbing (interrupting) you; greeting used when entering someone's home

1

to harden; to solidify; to become firm; to become certain; to gather (together); to assemble

3

to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate

2

to use one's influence; to pull strings; to take measures; to make the necessary preparations

1

(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount

1

very deeply

1

weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday); kanji radical 73

1

to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)

1

please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of

2

receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me

2

living room (Western style); sitting room

8

tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony

3

room; apartment; flat

3

boarding; wooden floor

1

hard-packed dirt (clay, gravel, etc.) floor; concrete floor

4

being deeply moved emotionally; excitement; passion; inspiration; deep emotion; strong impression

2

dear me!; good gracious!; well; let me see; question mark

1

dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre

4

ground; earth's surface

4

to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter

7

to ventilate; to let fresh air in

1

level of humidity

1

wooden building; wooden architecture

2

to differ; to vary; to disagree

2

house; building

1

footwear; footgear; shoes

1

mortar; plaster; stucco

1

to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify

1

here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up

1

to run into; to collide with; to come to the end of (a street); to run into (difficulties, problems, etc.); to run up against

1

to part left and right; to open out

1

left; left hand side

2

kitchen; cookhouse; (ship's) galley

1

to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path

3

engawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses; bone at the base of a fin; meat at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish)

3

to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

1

sliding storm shutter

3

box (built-in) for containing shutters

3

direct

2

open verandah; open veranda

1

to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink

1

murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post

4

fusuma; Japanese sliding screen

20

to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)

1

second son

1

north side; north bank

1

drawing room; parlor; parlour; guest room

2

(sound of) laughter; laughing voice

2