jpdb beta

light; illumination; glow; lamp; light

2

to be lit (e.g. candle, lamp, light bulb); to be lighted; to be burning

1

(one) matter; (one) item; (one) case

2

to race against time

3

five; 5

6

counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper); (arch.) counter for positions or roles; (arch.) counter for food portions (now only gyōza and soba); counter for ranking level

3

stinginess; miserliness; parsimony

2

coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins

3

to go; to come

1

to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off

1

seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause

1

to let leak; to let out (e.g. light); to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to wet one's pants

5

blunder; fault; error; mistake; failure; disgrace

2

filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)

1

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

1

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood

1

to run away; to escape safely

7

control; management; supervision

1

severe; strict; hard (to do); difficult; intense (e.g. cold); harsh (weather)

4

group leader

2

to walk someone off (e.g. to the police station)

4

to give shelter to; to lodge; to put up; to accommodate

1

to be able to manage somehow or another

4

(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly

5

to coil itself (e.g. a snake); to loaf around

1

to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse

7

itinerant Buddhist monk; practitioner of Shugendō

1

leaving (fleeing) the capital

1

glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off

1

satisfactory; decent

1

to forget; to fail to recognize; to fail to recognise

1

wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria

1

having an audience with someone of very high social standing (e.g. the emperor)

6

decayed tree; rotted tree; decayed wood; obscure, meaningless life (metaphor)

8

byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; excuse

4

making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (letters)

2

to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

5

at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money

6

authority; power; influence

4

to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline

1

before the gate; in front of the gate

4

the second time

1

to encourage; to cheer; to raise (the voice)

1

to order; to command; to appoint

1

fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence

2

such; like this

2

we; us; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to a group of one's equals or inferiors)

1

Yoshiharu

3

weak (constitution); sickly; feeble; in poor health

3

in an easy-to-understand manner; in a very kind and detailed way

1