jpdb beta

transfer; assignment; conveyance

1

acute ear; good ear

1

complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression

2

protest; refutation; pleading

1

acquaintance; close friend

2

news of someone's death; obituary

1

to have something on one's mind; to have (undisclosed) reservations; to feel conflicted

1

to make sense; to be consistent; to be logical; to stand to reason; to be coherent

1

proud; arrogant; haughty

1

lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild

1

south

1

make; manufacture; -made; made of ...; made in ...

1

healthy; robust; strong; solid; durable

1

long-lasting; long-wearing; wears well; nagamochi; large oblong chest (for clothing, personal effects, etc.)

1

appointing someone to a position of trust; entrusting someone with an important position; making much of

1

empire; Empire of Japan

4

wanderer; vagabond; capricious person; hobo

2

face with no make-up; unpainted face; true face (of a country, celebrity, etc.); real face; sober face; sobriety

1

cries of pain

1

burn; scald; (fig.) getting one's fingers burned (e.g. poor investment, mixing with the wrong people)

1

laceration

2

to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate

1

old wound; scar; unpleasant past experience; painful memory; past misdeed

1

ten times; tenfold

1

woven mat (of sedge, hay, etc.)

1

unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful

1

happiness; blessedness; proving fortunate; yielding positive outcome; luckily; fortunately

2

season; weather

1

perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility

1

gladiator

3

experienced person; person who has had a particular experience

3

secretiveness

1

shady; underhanded; questionable

1

approximately; about; only; nothing but; just (finished, etc.)

1

veteran (in a particular field); person with a lot of experience; old hand

1

how many people; a number of people

1

appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.; literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning; face (of a piece of type)

1

slave; servant; slavery

2

misemono; type of Edo- and Meiji-period side show often held outdoors or in small temporarily erected shacks on temple and shrine grounds; show; exhibition; spectacle

2

I got it; I see; I now know; so that's the reason

2

young; youthful; immature; green; low (number); small

2

dropping (of tears, dew, etc.); falling off; dropping off; inadvertently (coming to the surface); letting out (e.g. a secret)

1

to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage

1

ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid

2

to regard someone with odium; to look at someone with reproach

1

nothing but (this); no more than (this); none other than

2

I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...

2

to lose one's life

1

cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible

1

innumerable; countless; numberless

1