jpdb beta

other side; other party; other end (e.g. of phone connection); opposition

3

to become fine (of fabric); to be checkmated; to be hard pressed; to be at a loss

2

there it is; there it comes; got it; of course; it figures; I knew it

2

to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat

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Kadono Kouhei (1968.12.12-)

2

false name; alias; assumed name; pseudonym

3

to work out; to think up; to devise; to manage to find (money, time, etc.); to scrape together (funds)

1

revival from the brink of death; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation; revitalization

1

community

2

to confuse (someone); to befuddle; to bewilder; to mystify; to throw up a smokescreen; (lit.) to surround with smoke

1

cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry

6

partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing

2

acceleration; speeding up

3

expert; skilled hand; person of experience

2

to blacken; to darken

1

two days later; day after next; next day but one

2

to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

1

book

1

famous book; masterpiece (literary work)

1

fanfare; flourish of trumpets

1

stock; inventory

1

private management

1

secondhand bookshop; secondhand bookstore; secondhand bookseller

1

book title

1

baby

1

pornographic photo book; erotic photo book; pornographic comic book; hentai comic book

20

premium; premiere

1

one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face

6

I told you so; you see that?

1

kick

2

man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; (lit.) herbivore

5

gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum

6

playing at (something); game of make-believe; something done together

10

stuffing; packing; end (esp. the foot of a bridge); lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; tea master; endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); sweet eel sauce

1

in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of; attached or stretched on

3

ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

2

leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out; starting a new life; starting life anew

1

divorce

8

disreputable; scandalous; disgraceful

4

in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability

2

doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion

2

any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever

1

to bend backwards; to bend oneself back; to be taken aback

8

tiny; little; wee

1

short (of a person)

2

disappointed; dejected; disheartened; indignant; angry

1

thick voice

1

example; precedent; case

1

standoffishly; primly; pungently (of a smell); acridly; long and pointed (e.g. of a nose); popping (of ears)

1

jet black

2