jpdb beta

qualifications; requirements; capabilities

2

to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do

17

friend; acquaintance

1

custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice

1

connection; link; relationship

2

restriction; restraint; limitation; limit

6

talisman; lucky charm

1

necessity; need

1

exception

3

as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); precisely because ...; all the more because of ...; on account of ...; ... being what it is

6

that field; the authorities (esp. the police); the yakuza; organized crime circles

1

to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)

1

shorter way; shortcut

1

grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man

2

to temper a sword; to forge a sword

2

village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown

4

large sum (of money); large amount; large denomination (banknote, etc.)

2

to shift (something) from one hand to the other; to carry in a different way; to change one's grip (on); to exchange (what one is holding for something else)

1

to be helpful; to be dependable; to stand by (someone)

2

because of; owing to; due to

3

precious; valuable

3

calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable

2

present age; present day; contemporary; modern era; modern times; contemporary era

4

traditional Japanese steel made from iron sand (esp. for use in swords)

2

charcoal

2

iron sand; magnetite sand

2

Japan

1

office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman

1

retirement; retiring (from a race, match, etc.); dropping out

1

charcoal; charred remains

22

delusion; wild idea; (wild) fancy; (ridiculous) fantasy

1

wintertime; winter season

1

convenient; useful; finding useful; coming in handy; (priceless) treasure

1

representative; exemplary; model

2

black (colour, color)

1

oxidation; oxidization

2

three; 3

2

iron (Fe); steel; iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.); railway; railway enthusiast

5

metal

7

iron; iron (element)

9

second

1

composition; constitution; composition (of a molecule, compound, etc.); constituent ratio; relative proportion of elements

1

oxygen (O)

1

compound

1

change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality

4

iron oxide

1

one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)

14

occupation; profession; job; vocation; career; trade

1

when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

2

foot-operated bellows; foot bellows; traditional Japanese clay furnace for smelting iron (operated with large foot bellows); Tatara furnace

1