jpdb beta

good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield

6

to perform in tune with each other; to get along well; to be in perfect harmony; to make a perfect pair (team, etc.)

2

club (esp. for devotees or fanciers of some subject or activity)

1

mumblingly; mutteringly; unintelligibly

1

cold reception; unwelcoming treatment

1

chuckle; giggle

3

central; main; just (done); freshly (baked); counter for consecutive losses

1

to be impatient; to be eager; to be restless; to be excited; to be in high spirits

1

postcard; memo; note; card

1

ceremonial hall (e.g. wedding, funeral); hall for ceremonies; place of ceremony

2

huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion

3

Japanese-style (esp. in reference to squat toilets)

1

Western-style; foreign; Western-style toilet; flush toilet; water closet

1

white kimono

1

one's family register; one's domicile; nationality; membership (club, party, etc.)

2

job transfer away from one's home; taking up a new post leaving one's family behind

1

memorial day; commemoration day; anniversary

1

noisily (esp. the noise of heavy feet)

1

bodily; with all one's weight; with one's whole body

3

Takumi

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huff!; yo-heave-ho!; heigh-ho; to butter up; to suck up to

1

cousin (younger male)

3

Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)

1

(finger) ring

4

sofvi; toy figure made from soft vinyl (monster, hero, etc.); soft vinyl mascot figure

1

to push up; to force up; to pressure one's superiors; to burst out (of emotions, etc.); to fill one's heart

1

summoning circle; magic circle (esp. in fictional settings); magic square

1

ambiguous; obscure; equivocal

1

older sister; lass; young lady

1

real life; actual life; everyday life

1

one's birthplace

1

refusal; rejection; denial; veto

1

turning around; spinning around; curling up; round and charming (e.g. eyes)

1

figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design

1

ground to ground

1

dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic

2

New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January

1

race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku

1

fukuwarai; New Year's game in which blindfolded players place cutouts of facial features onto the outline of a face

1

karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards

1

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards

1

board game

1

computer game; video game

1

digital native; person who has grown up in the age of computers, the Internet, etc.

1

deferment (e.g. of savings); leaving (a thing) as it stands; unredeemed; unredeemable; irredeemable

1

child's room; nursery

1

fuselage; airframe

8

fighting (against); taking on (an opponent); facing; confronting; competing (with); battle

1

to lend; to loan; to let out on hire

2

cook; chef

4