jpdb beta

leisure time; idle moment

2

good humour (humor); good mood

1

prattle; broken language; halting language; baby talk; imperfect speech; smattering

1

to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie

3

Indonesian (person)

1

home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains

1

intellectual; educated person; intelligentsia

2

at first; initially; in the beginning

1

with difficulty; faltering; tottering; awkward

1

one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances; one's lot; one's destiny; one's future

1

substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange

1

dead of night; midnight

4

to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon

1

ago; since; before; previous

1

... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...

1

gallant; dashing; jaunty

1

to lead someone around by the nose

1

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

4

to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated

3

hard worker; hardworking person

1

lazy person; lazy fellow; slothful person

1

always; at any time

1

several months

2

living expenses

1

more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time

1

(not) even once; (not) ever

1

counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)

1

premature birth

1

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

1

secret intention; ulterior motive; kanji "heart" radical at bottom

1

in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing

1

just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; (lit.) in the time it takes to say "ah!"

3

to exchange words

1

part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties

1

exceedingly; very

1

clear; obvious; evident; bright; light

2

interval; break; pause; spare moment

1

alphabet

1

kanji; Chinese character

1

standard language (used in government, education, etc.); standard Japanese

1

Standard Chinese; Modern Standard Mandarin; Putonghua

6

Cantonese (language)

3

Guangdong (China); Kwangtung; Guangzhou; Kwangchow; Canton (China)

1

overseas Chinese

3

bilingual

1

Shanghai (China)

2

person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)

5

Shanghainese; Shanghai dialect (of Wu Chinese)

2

language

2

as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively

1