jpdb beta

to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter

2

management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

2

power struggle

1

uninterested (in); having no interest (in)

1

meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview

1

direct; immediate; personal; firsthand

4

to exchange words

1

(political) power; authority; influence

3

one's future; one's fate; prospects; one's way; one's path

1

competent; suitable; qualified

2

workmanship; craftsmanship; grades; results; quality (e.g. of a crop); dealings

1

useless; deadhead

1

ruin; destruction; fall

1

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

2

fat; tallow; lard; grease

3

sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around

1

handkerchief

9

turning sideways; landscape orientation

2

to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)

1

to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander

6

to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)

1

bad mannered; naughty; misbehaving

1

upper part; upper stream; upper course of a river; right side of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage left (actor's POV); skillful (in comparisons)

1

to be used to eating; to become used to eating; to be accustomed to eating; to acquire a taste for

1

festival; feast; carnival; matsuri

1

culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

2

sticking (in one place, position, etc.); settling; becoming established (of a custom, system, etc.); taking hold; fixation; fixing

1

fruit; nut; berry; fruits; profit

1

opening a new store; opening a new branch; setting up a stall (at a festival, trade fair, etc.); setting up a booth; exhibiting

2

to become popular; to grow in popularity; to catch on

1

fashionable thing; popular thing; craze

1

one face; one surface; the whole surface; one aspect; one side; (on) the other hand; one broad, flat object

2

very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded

2

a woman's natural inclination to care for others; big-sisterly disposition

2

to be sensible; to be smart; to be tasteful; to be thoughtful; to be tactful; to be sensitive

1

free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling

1

observing eye

1

character (of a person); personality; disposition; characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.)

3

sincere; honest; faithful

1

socializing; getting on with people; personal relations

2

in those days

2

double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n

1

full stomach; bellyful; (eat) heartily; to one's heart's content

1

belly; abdomen; stomach

1

to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size

1

roundabout (e.g. expression); indirect (reference, criticism, etc.); oblique

3

small child; pipsqueak; short person; midget; small animal; runt

1

the same generation; coeval

2

compared with

4

to face (each other); to be facing; to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to receive (a client, etc.); to compare with

1