jpdb beta

root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature

1

origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material

1

uncool; unsophisticated; unfashionable; out of fashion; tacky

2

art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance

5

smelling burnt; smelling scorched; smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out); tense; suspicious; dubious

4

code; password; cipher

25

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

7

last week; the week before

1

Tuesday

1

to fall prostrate

7

line; row; rank; list

5

to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something

2

consequence; causal relationship; nexus

1

platform; stage; upper seat; pulpit

25

saga

1

occupational disease

1

down to earth; reasonable; able to deal with

1

judicial decision made with human kindness and warmth in a fair manner

1

hey; hello; wow; oh; oomph; heave-ho

3

magistrate; shogunate administrator

1

where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes

5

that is to say; so that means

1

candidate; contender; prospect; candidacy; candidature; nomination

2

only son

2

gasping

1

to be remembered; to go down in history

1

to die; to lay down life's burden

1

police drama (television); detective drama

1

silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction

2

diamond

2

talk; chat

1

mixture of fact and fiction; half-truth

1

confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter

5

one's history as a performer

1

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

1

sensible; clever; smart; decent; tasteful

1

suffocation; choking; asphyxia

6

certain amount; some; certain person; Mr So-and-so; (arch.) I; (arch.) me

5

in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period

3

one (of a pair); incomplete; imperfect; few; little; off-centre

1

both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold

1

stomach ache; abdominal pain

1

to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (one's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate

1

timewise; temporal; chronal

2

right beside; close to; nearby

1

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)

4

small; little; slightly less than; just about; somewhat; somehow

1

the whole enormous extent of Edo; from one side of Edo to the other

2

subject; theme

1

inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care

2