jpdb beta

muscular; lean (of a company's operations, etc.)

1

breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium

1

left; left-hand side; left hand; the left (wing); leftist; fondness for alcohol

1

fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred

1

to doubt; to think (something is) doubtful; to wonder; to be suspicious

1

something so heavy it must be pulled by a thousand men; pulling with strength of a thousand people

2

rock; boulder; crag

2

repulsion; repulsive force

10

enclosing wall; boundary fence; obstacle; barrier

8

blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings

16

armor; armour

4

unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom

5

to be solved; to be worked out; to come loose; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. of a ban)

4

father; father (e.g. of a discipline); pioneer (e.g. of field of research); God; Father

1

Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures); Kansai (western half of Japan; during the feudal era)

1

Shinto shrine

7

chief priest

1

to serve as; to act as; to fill (the position of); to play the role of; to be in charge of; to hold (a position)

2

(Shinto) shrine

1

shintai; object of worship believed to contain the spirit of a deity, typically housed in a shrine

1

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

6

bronze mirror

1

left shoulder

2

to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please

6

coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency

2

to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)

10

pointing out; identification

9

lack of expression; lack of emotion; blank look (on one's face)

7

particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

4

way; manner; (for) the first time in (e.g. ten years); after ...; ...-sized; amount (equivalent to ...)

5

meeting again; reunion

1

that day; the very same day

2

disappointment; despair

3

to pin (someone) down; to hold down; to shut out (one's opponent); to keep (the opposing team) from scoring; to suppress; to control

2

convenient

1

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

3

to do (something) to spite (someone); to rebuke indirectly; to make an insinuation; to make a display of affection (for each other); to show off a relationship

1

sympathy; compassion; pity

2

to stare (at); to gaze (at); to look hard (at); to watch intently; to fix one's eyes (on)

9

complex; complicated; intricate; mixed (feelings)

5

to suit; to match; to become; to be like

2

and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...

6

normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station

13

to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay

2

useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point

6

present point (i.e. in history); at the present time

1

guess; conjecture

2

certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

1

living thing; organism; creature; biology

9

vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump

1