jpdb beta

success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

1

same; identical; equal; anyway; in any case; if one must ...

1

direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)

5

several steps; much (better, higher, etc.); several cuts (above)

1

higher rank; better position

1

next year

1

(personnel) change; transfer; relocation; reassignment; reshuffle

1

preparatory phase; preparatory period

1

enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten

3

to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!

9

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

1

taking up a post away from one's family; job transfer without one's family; living apart from one's family for the sake of one's job; unaccompanied posting

2

living by oneself; living alone

1

troublesome (person, task, etc.); difficult; suffering; hardship; trouble

1

promotion

2

married couple; husband and wife; man and wife

1

to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble

1

to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)

2

eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; used for soft emphasis or to soften a statement or request; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.

6

older sister; elder sister

1

one's daughter and heiress

1

light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily); light (i.e. of foot); effortless; non-serious; minor; slight

1

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

1

if; when; when it comes to ...; as for ...; why don't you ...; why not ...

3

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

2

Shinkansen; bullet train

1

two o'clock

1

half a ken (approx. 0.9 m); half-sized tatami mat

1

distance; range; difference (e.g. in opinion); gap; metric

1

that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so

2

town; block; downtown; main street; street; road

1

easy; simple; there's no way that ...

3

generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds

1

greatly; very much; thanks a lot

5

you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she

5

acquaintance

1

good(-tasting); nice; delicious; attractive (offer, opportunity, etc.); appealing; convenient

1

thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality

9

bunraku; Japanese puppet theatre (theater)

1

daggertooth pike conger (Muraenesox cinereus); conger eel; garden eel

1

brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

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koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)

1

sea bream (esp. Pagrus major); porgy

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the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...

15

house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name

9

who

3

babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper

2

pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix

4

something; some; somehow; for some reason; (so) what (are you trying to say)?; what (do you mean)?

2

time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity

2