jpdb beta

to buy (stock, materials, etc.); to purchase; to lay in; to get; to obtain

3

helper; assistant; help; assistance

2

young man; youth; lad; servant boy; young shopboy

1

powerfully; vigorously; with all one's strength; lots of; heaps of; plenty

1

general; admiral; head; chief; old chap; mate

1

soup made from boiling leftover fish scraps; fishhead soup

1

vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce

2

ouch!

1

subordinate person

1

Narita divorce; divorce of a newlywed couple upon returning (to Narita Airport) from their honeymoon abroad

1

raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); raw; live (i.e. not recorded)

1

tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery

1

Europe and the United States; Europe and America; the West

1

form; method; system; formula

1

day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)

1

to let (someone) have the credit (for); (lit.) to let (someone) hold the flowers

1

(sense of) presence

1

to discuss; to talk together

3

to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to be about to leave; to be just going out

4

sincerity; good faith

1

sincerely; earnestly; wholeheartedly; repeatedly; over and over; again and again

1

bowl; vessel; container; ability; capacity; calibre

1

first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

5

to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of

2

August; eighth month of the lunar calendar

1

9th day of the month; nine days

1

child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me

1

death from explosion; death from bombing; bombing (in sales); flopping

1

four

1

... years old; age (of) ...

1

one-year-old; one year old

1

next morning

1

discovery; detection; finding

2

to do

1

to breathe one's last; to pass away; to die; to expire

1

tree; shrub; wood; timber; wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)

1

to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn

1

to die

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one year; some time ago

4

blazing heat; scorching sun

3

child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing ...)

3

one's last moments; one's dying hour; hour of death

6

in search of; in order to look for

2

faintly; dimly; slightly; barely

1

older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)

3

surrender; capitulation; submission; yield

1

only; nothing but

2

nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets

1

approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

1

to catch fire (of charcoal); to start burning; to burn away; to burn merrily

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