jpdb beta

useless; vain; aimless; idle

1

proposal; motion; recommendation

2

technique; art; skill; move

1

oratory; eloquence

1

speed

1

to be sooty; to be stained

1

shade

1

orderly; regular; systematic; well-organized; well-organised; trim

1

low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

1

width of a road

1

townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family

1

long and narrow

1

master; boss; stable master; craftsman; artisan; (arch.) foster parent

30

to step over; to step across; to stride over; to stretch over; to span; to bridge

1

young; youthful

1

simultaneous interpretation; simultaneous interpreting

1

fine powder

8

to break; to smash

1

skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath

1

to dry (clothes, etc.); to desiccate

1

adhesive; glue

1

taking on one's share (e.g. of work); dividing (work, expenses, etc.) between; apportionment; allotment; allocation; assignment

1

dissolution; dissolving; solution (e.g. chemical); melting; liquefying; fusion

1

warming (something) in a vessel placed in hot water

1

deodorant

1

mochi; (sticky) rice cake

4

third; no. three

2

to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)

17

senior; older

1

wooden form; wooden model; wooden pattern

1

palm (of one's hand)

1

solid (body); solid matter; solid food

1

to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected

1

object; body; solid

1

translation; deciphering; decoding; translation

1

calligraphy

1

inkstone

4

to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)

2

someone who is in their element; (lit.) fish that has found water

1

to pour on

1

unsociable; unfriendly; blunt; surly; curt; cold

1

hard to believe; fabulous; unbelievable; incredible

2

master; teacher; stable master

1

with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; (lit.) with the force of surging waves

1

rolling up one's sleeves

1

to begin to do; to cater; to deliver food

1

fragment; scrap; piece; shred

1

speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal

1

muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line

1

to use as an intermediary; to mediate; to assist; to worry; to mind; to care

1