jpdb beta

serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)

3

to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home

3

in order to; for the purpose of; must; should

1

had better ...; had better not ...

3

to avoid meeting someone's gaze; to not look someone in the eyes

1

intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart

4

disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes

2

to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in

3

look (in someone's eyes); expression (of the eyes); eyes

1

to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else

1

instant; moment; for an instant

11

being startled, surprised or afraid; panic; trepidation

1

to go by; to cross; to pass by; to flash across

4

to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel

3

frank; candid; straightforward; openhearted; direct; outspoken

2

to insinuate; to satirize; to satirise; to take a dig at

2

intentional; on purpose

1

real intention; true motive; true meaning

1

lily (Lilium spp.); yuri; genre of comics and novels about female homosexuality

1

flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda

8

to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)

2

language of flowers; floriography; flower symbolism, e.g. red roses mean love

2

bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla); French hydrangea

1

treachery; betrayal; perfidy

2

extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness

1

pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth

1

suggestion; hint; implication

1

private; personal

1

matter; thing; affair; circumstance

1

model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)

2

lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication

1

detection (of a plot, fraud, etc.); discovery; coming to light; being uncovered

3

to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver

11

difficult situation

1

to weather (a storm, rough seas); to ride across; to get through (adversity); to weather; to load completely (e.g. books on a shelf, people or luggage in a car)

1

to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake

3

boastful; conceited; bragging; impudent

1

morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning

7

trial; test

2

liking; taste; choice

4

woman; lady; adult female

1

if so; in that case; in that situation

2

chest; coffer; rice tub; lidded round, wooden container for cooked rice

1

honesty; integrity; purity and unselfishness

1

assistance; support

1

to be frugal; to be sparing; to value; to hold dear; to regret (e.g. a loss); to feel sorry (for)

1

to glare at; to scowl at

1

among (them); of (them)

4

disclosure; exposure; revelation

1

scandal

2