jpdb beta

honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language

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respect; honour; honor

3

to train; to discipline; to teach manners

3

manners; courtesy; etiquette

3

formality; social rules; social status; social standing; (arch.) amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)

1

cultivation; refinement; culture; education

2

meaning; significance

1

other intention; hidden purpose; ulterior motive; ill will; malice

1

pet saying; favorite phrase (favorite); stock phrase; manner of talking

3

to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted

9

to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)

1

tenderhearted; faint of heart

1

support; stay; prop

5

future; distant future

3

at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)

14

to tie; to restrain; to confine; to bind; to fasten

4

until now; still; yet; (not) yet; since

2

self-torture; masochism; inflicting damage to oneself

2

menial; meanness; servility; abject

4

overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed

8

to drag in; to pull in

5

English (language)

2

bamboo

1

easy to make; easy to do

2

Europe and America; the West

1

to do wholeheartedly; to put one's heart into something

2

from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely

9

to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like

1

modesty; humility; being humble

6

simile; metaphor; allegory; parable

2

tending to find things bothersome; person who tends to find things bothersome

2

troublesome; bothersome; tiresome; annoying

3

smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

8

trifling; trivial

3

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance

12

Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)

4

Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale; greenish brown; having a beautiful voice

2

to smack one's lips (over a dish); to eat with relish

2

to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)

3

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

6

kanji; Chinese character

11

dated (e.g. a letter); date of effect (e.g. a rule change)

2

thanks (for coming, helping, etc.); glad you could make it; tiredness; fatigue

4

to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter

4

at least

2

than; other than; except; but

1

to cause someone to worry

4

one's property; personal effects; one's belongings

2

one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

3

alcohol; sake

6