jpdb beta

new; fresh; novel

3

construction; establishment

2

demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

3

summer

3

tea party; get-together; tea ceremony

2

recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement

1

to reject; to spurn; to turn down; to refuse

2

nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband

23

saving (e.g. time, money, resources); economising; economizing

1

ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); seeker; Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

2

minister; secretary; Shujing; The Book of Documents; Ministry of Central Affairs (Qin-dynasty department); Oversight Department (under the Department of State of the ritsuryō system)

2

to follow; to come after; to come next (to); to rank next (to); to rank second (to)

1

second (in a series)

2

great; excellent; distinguished; important; awful; terrible

1

gray or silver haired (grey)

1

unaffected and sincere, with fortitude and vigor (vigour)

1

man; male; masculine gender

5

to remember; to recall; to call to mind; to imagine; to picture in one's mind; to visualize

1

made from paper

1

smooth (of a surface); glassy; smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.); fluent (speech); continuously differentiable

1

feel; touch

1

admiration; being impressed; admirable; praiseworthy; astonishment; being appalled

2

to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation

5

paper

4

like water; like it grows on trees

1

consumption; expenditure; spending

1

that's so, isn't it

3

silk goods

2

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

3

bamboo writing strip

15

highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly

1

(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all

2

low-priced; cheap; shallow (e.g. sympathy); superficial; link back to discussion group, bulletin board, etc. posting

1

practical; useful; utilitarian; pragmatic

1

to be bulky; to be unwieldy; to grow voluminous

1

hard to handle; difficult to handle; awkward to handle; hard to deal with; unwieldy

1

such

1

national power

1

to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt

1

graceful; elegant

5

reinforcement

1

to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for

1

but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that

2

to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)

4

and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...

4

to choke; to have trouble breathing

1

transformation; abnormality; sexual perversion; pervert; metamorphosis; transformation

3

to marry (of a woman); to get married (to); to marry into (a family); (arch.) to have sexual intercourse

5

state of affairs; situation; conditions; circumstances

1

patterns of thinking; train of thought

1