jpdb beta

sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered

2

to present; to submit; to tender; to hold out

5

at a glance; by accident

1

spine (of book); binding (of book)

1

library (usu. single-room); small library

1

taking something out; carrying out; providing money oneself; paying with one's own money; corbel; strengthening under a seam (clothing)

1

prohibition; inhibition; ban

4

all; every

4

pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability

5

the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); the human body; Tao, heaven, earth and king

1

sole; single; solo; independence; singleness; singularity

1

plural; multiple; several

1

to point at

3

place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.

1

to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine

2

explanatory note

1

to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through

1

all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total

20

blinking (in surprise)

2

to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes

7

understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy

20

to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)

5

to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up

6

to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)

4

silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction

8

among (them); of (them)

1

one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start

12

to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)

2

lifeboat; friend in need; helping hand; timely help

1

to take out (e.g. garbage); to put out (e.g. dishes on table); to serve (e.g. meal); to get out (e.g. food from cupboard); to submit (e.g. ideas, opinions); to provide for

2

call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

1

to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)

2

precious; valuable

1

if; in case; supposing

15

what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind

2

samurai on horseback; (medieval) knight

2

high official

1

use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement

1

instant; moment; (split) second; (in a) flash; (in the) blink of an eye

4

engagement; betrothal

48

relation; connection

3

suffix appended to somebody else's family members

2

secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings

1

to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo

2

anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest

1

report; information

10

peremptorily; willy-nilly; forcibly

1

when it becomes; when it comes to

4

(political) power; authority; influence

1

to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)

2