jpdb beta

the nine grains

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small; little; tiny

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heating power; thermal power; firepower

1

weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)

2

short time

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to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)

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actual article or goods; spots (stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.); (in) kind (income, benefit, rent, taxes, investment, etc.)

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payment; supply

2

Sui dynasty (China, 581-618)

6

planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)

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to harm; to hurt; to injure; to fail to ...; to miss one's opportunity to ...

1

explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend

3

to omit; to leave out; to exclude; to curtail; to save; to cut down

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spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

2

to sow seeds; to sow the seeds of ... (e.g. conflict)

3

early autumn (fall); seventh month of the lunar calendar

1

all over Japan

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place name; toponym

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furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality

3

postwar period; period after Second World War

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Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned

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period; time; opportunity; chance; age; term (e.g. in office); session (e.g. of parliament)

4

production increase

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consumption; expenditure

1

to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion

1

skin; outer skin; integument; husk; hull; shell

1

refining; polishing (of rice)

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time; labour; labor

3

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance

1

stems and leaves

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fault; defect; flaw; failure (in an examination); failing grade

5

fodder; feed

2

rice husks; chaff

1

straw

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to be collected; to be gathered (e.g. mushrooms, etc.); to be harvested; to be able to collect; to be able to mine

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cold-weather damage (to crops)

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moisture; humidity; dampness; scabies; sarcoptic mange; the itch

1

injury; harm; evil influence; damage

5

drought; long spell (period) of dry weather

1

salt damage (from seawater, sea air, etc.)

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(crop) damage owing to disease or blight

1

long-term storage; long-term preservation

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to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to

2

to surpass; to outstrip; to excel

4

grains

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far away; far off; far; long ago; long before

2

to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind

1

maturity; ripeness

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uneven; irregular; non-uniform; unsorted; odd; miscellaneous

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to be dried out; to be parched

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