jpdb beta

stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation

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to begin to walk; to set out

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beginning of spring

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Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)

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dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity

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to pickle thoroughly; to pickle a large amount

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jello (gelatin-based dessert); jelly; gel; jelly

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plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)

3

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

3

pickling in salt; leaving unchanged; leaving unused

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sausage

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chopping board; cutting board

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slice

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serving table

6

Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae)

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to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued

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common fig (Ficus carica); fig; fig tree

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to knead into

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white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine

2

fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred

1

to throw into; to toss into

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from the beginning

3

bargaining point; terms of exchange; conditions for meeting a demand

1

to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress

8

cutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection

2

indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)

1

clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain

4

to catch (someone's words); to make out; to follow; to ask about (a situation, circumstances, etc.); to inquire

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(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means

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will; testament; last request

4

softly; gently; lightly

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to float in the air; to be unfinished; to be unsettled; to be undecided

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to hang over; to cover; to fall upon someone (responsibility, burden, pressure, etc.)

2

plan; strategy

1

to lend a hand; to help

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there is no way that ...; easy; simple

2

to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it

3

compensation; indemnification; reparation; consideration

2

to join hands together; to join forces; to collaborate

2

to pretend

2

once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime

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victory or defeat; match; contest; game

1

reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence

2

vagrancy; wandering; nomadism

2

failed creative work; flop; dud; bomb

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thank you very much

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to darken one's face; to assume a gloomy look

1

reluctant (to part)

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to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around

3

well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...

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