jpdb beta

unhappy; sad; miserable; wretched; gloomy; melancholic

81

construction; building (e.g. a house); communal construction labor (in Zen Buddhism); building with the help of many people (e.g. a temple or shrine)

1

(my) wife; inside the home; one's family

2

to have someone send (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (via someone else); to leave (a message) with someone; (arch.) to use as an excuse; (arch.) to make a pretext of

1

engawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses; bone at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish); meat at the base of a fin

1

stepping stone

1

gently; quietly; calmly

2

temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical

1

provisional; temporary; tentative; interim

1

cheerfully; joyously; joyfully; happily; lightheartedly; excitedly

1

fusuma; Japanese sliding screen

10

to shut out; to bar; to lock out; to exclude

1

woman; girl

1

gentlemen; men; the men's (sign on toilet, bathroom, etc. doors)

1

five-storied; quintuplicate; fivefold

3

main building in a Heian palace; main residence of an emperor

9

daytime; noon; broad daylight

1

emergency evacuation

1

underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret

1

north and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea

2

most difficult; next to impossible

2

roofed corridor connecting two buildings; connecting passageway; skyway; skybridge; skywalk

3

to prune; to trim; to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest; to prune (a manuscript); to cut down

1

to bear fruit; to produce a crop

1

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

1

Chinese temple bamboo (Sinobambusa tootsik); tootsik bamboo

1

self-recommendation; self-nomination; putting oneself forward

1

to probe; to search; to sound out; to investigate

1

(musical) conductor; commander; leader; director

1

(something having its) merits and demerits; advantages and disadvantages; good points and shortcomings

1

dictator; despot

1

order; system; the establishment; (ruling) regime; structural plan; body plan

1

negative; passive; half-hearted; unmotivated

1

short sleeved kimono (worn as an undergarment during the Heian period); padded silk garment

5

sweetly smiling; like the smiling of a beauty; gracious

1

smallish; on the small side; somewhat small; short swing of a bat, racquet, etc.

1

crossroads; crossing; intersection; street

1

having one misfortune after another; insult to injury

1

to take off one's clothes; to undress; to strip naked; to become naked

1

distinction; differentiation; discrimination; discrimination (against people)

1

prostitute; whore; tramp; floozy; slut

1

brute; savage; fiend

1

independent; autonomous; voluntary; of one's own initiative

1

roughly; broadly; generally; more or less

1

everyday clothes; underwear

1

ancient Chinese clothes

1

ground; land; the region in question; the local area; skin; texture; fabric

1

pattern; design

1

to be able to conceal

2

to change clothes (on someone else, e.g. child, doll); to change the wallpaper or skin (of a smart phone, etc.)

1