jpdb beta

roughly

1

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

3

modesty; humility; being humble

1

welcome; reception

4

soon; in a moment; nearby; close; direct; spot transaction

1

blackboard

1

armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track

2

to pierce; to penetrate; to sting (wound or sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice)

1

hiragana; cursive Japanese syllabary used primarily for native Japanese words (esp. function words, inflections, etc.)

1

room temperature

1

to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)

1

glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination

1

to step forward; to volunteer

1

classic (work, esp. book); the classics

2

being in charge (of an area of responsibility); being responsible (for a work role, etc.)

1

(a) few; some; several

1

to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by

1

majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly

1

very young; little; childish; immature

1

(outward) looks; features; face; countenance; expression

2

sailor collar

1

dress

1

classical

1

novel; original; striking; strange; eccentric; fantastic

1

hair style; coiffure; hairdo

6

in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something

1

dignity; grace; nobility; grade; quality; fineness

1

to lose; to miss (a change, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)

1

the point of ...; the place where ...; a place called ...; places known as ...; I would say ...; ... is how I'd put it

1

first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

2

felt-tip pen

1

thick book cover; book with thick binding

1

writing horizontally; horizontal writing

1

Shigeko

1

two (long cylindrical things)

2

line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)

2

disappearance; running away; going missing; absconding

6

approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

1

aunt

15

telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone

7

thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article

1

materials; data; document

2

bulky; massive; thick; heavy

1

one's home; one's house

2

kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat

1

piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild

1

to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble

3

to make contact

1

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

2

the same age

1