jpdb beta

tortoise; turtle; heavy drinker; turtle crest; turtle mon

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shell (of crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace; person's back; years of experience

1

relocation of the capital; transfer of the capital

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how about ...?; I wonder; I don't know

1

to make sense

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animal

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nutrition; nourishment

3

plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place

1

condition; state; health; state (of health); way; manner

1

to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport

1

god; deity; incredible; fantastic; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder

4

hermit; wizard; wizardry

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origin; beginning

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merely for form's sake

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sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable

2

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

human pillar; human sacrifice

2

to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends

4

(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat

5

finally; at last; ultimately; in the end

1

villager

2

to happen to pass by

1

to be imaginable; to be conceivable

2

sufferings; ordeals; agony; Passion (of Christ); crucifixion

1

rope; cord; policeman's rope

1

to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt

2

to drop; to lose; to let fall

1

being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

1

old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence

1

wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible

1

talking about one's misfortunes; tales of one's misfortunes

1

paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor

1

to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of

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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)

2

manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost

1

to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)

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human body

1

theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse

2

agency; intermediation

1

nonsense; no meaning; meaningless

1

rule of thumb

1

source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis

1

burial; interment

2

crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products

1

to bear fruit; to ripen

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as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

1

sanctification; consecration

2

process; course; mechanism

1

to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

1

to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted

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