jpdb beta

grhapati (layman; sometimes used as a posthumous suffix); private-sector scholar

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to pry; to prize; to prise

4

facetious; droll; funny

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arhat

2

four (long cylindrical things)

1

partaking; participating; taking part in; sharing (something with someone)

2

temple meditation hall or certain other temple structures

1

mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy

1

person with low tastes; uncultured person; worldly person; ordinary person (who has not entered the priesthood); layperson; layman

2

stationery; pen and ink; writing materials

2

writing brush; paintbrush; writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; writing (composing text); the written word

1

quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty

1

negative; minus

1

to sell out; to exhaust one's stock

1

monger; peddling

1

both sides; two sides; double-sided

1

recurring decimal

2

obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)

1

inside; interior

1

difference; discrepancy

2

painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding

1

end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap

2

itinerant priest; wandering monk; mendicant; clouds and water

2

old master; old teacher; old monk; aged priest

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labour and management; labor and management

2

koan; kōan; Zen question for meditation (e.g. the sound of one hand clapping)

7

rudder; helm

1

standing position (working, sex, etc.); erect position; upright position

1

day and night

1

to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of

2

guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation

1

main temple building; nave

5

profoundly quiet; serene

1

reflection; evening glow; sunset glow

1

to face

1

to be stormy or choppy (sea); to go through hard times; to be broke; to be gloomy; to be glum

1

to accompany; to go with; to go together

1

one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game

3

lotus pond

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pond

1

muddiness; murkiness; impurity; Japanese voiced consonant mark; unrefined sake

1

pure; clean; purity

1

symptoms; condition (of a patient)

1

style of Southern Chinese painting

1

taste; elegance; scenic beauty

1

building

1

class (e.g. school); grade; rank; kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.

1

temple (esp. large one); monastery; temple building

1

to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst

2

to come near; to approach; to be on the verge of; to be about to; to overhang; to hang over

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