jpdb beta

entertainment; amusement; fun

1

land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap

2

taste; flavor; flavour

1

meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody

1

to occupy much space

2

to mend; to patch up; to fix (hair, clothes, appearance, etc.); to adjust; to keep up appearances; to cover up (e.g. a mistake)

2

blunder; (careless) mistake; error

1

receiving (a message, letter, email, etc.); reception (radio, TV, etc.)

3

with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous

2

closing time; lockup; curfew

3

to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

2

wrong; different; not like that

3

outward appearance; apparent

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

1

to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of

2

district of a town; city block (of irregular size)

1

president (of a nation); big man; boss; buddy

2

nostril; nostrils

1

quartet

1

indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission

3

hanafuda; flower cards; playing cards consisting of 12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower

1

commonplace (of people or animals); ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; found around every corner

2

to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off

2

cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties

1

tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining

1

to show up; to appear; to turn up

1

especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though

2

to build up; to establish (one's reputation)

2

to render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of

1

you could say; you might say; verging on the

1

perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem

1

feeling chilly; nervous; anxious; frightened

1

persuasion

9

eccentric; crank; oddball

1

highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)

1

restriction; restraint; binding; constraint

3

single cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell

1

library

2

Records of the Three Kingdoms; Annals of the Three Kingdoms

12

dressing oneself; personal grooming

1

love of learning; desire for learning; passion for knowledge

1

rising; ascending; climbing

1

measure; step; action

1

national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)

3

laws of nature; physical laws; physics

4

people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various

8

expectation; anticipation; purpose; intention; others' opinions of one; speculation

1

during; for the duration of

1

rarely; seldom

2

witch

1