jpdb beta

story; tale; talk; discussion

3

star (usu. excluding the Sun); planet (usu. excluding Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); asterisk; star (actor, player, etc.); dot; spot

3

short short (story); flash fiction

3

to get along (with someone); to be like-minded; to be congenial

1

light; bright; bright (colour); cheerful; bright; bright (future, prospects, etc.); rosy

2

occasionally; once in a while; now and then

2

hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff

1

grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence

1

mother

4

surroundings; environs; circumference

1

unique; peculiar; singular

1

queen; queen; queen (chess piece); Queen (highest title for female players in competitive karuta)

1

stalker; (mechanical) stoker

1

activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; operation; moving picture

2

research; study; investigation

1

script; libretto; scenario

1

(spoken) line (in a play, film, comic, etc.); one's lines; comment; remark; stock phrase; set phrase

3

perfectly; right on the mark; spot on; enough; sufficiently; thoroughly

1

leaving (a decision, job, etc.) to someone else; entrusting; leaving the choice of a meal to the chef; omakase

1

artistic taste; aptitude for painting; ability to appreciate art; desire to paint

1

intended for ...; oriented towards ...; aimed at ...

1

picture book

2

kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)

4

older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl

2

grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

1

reading aloud; recitation

2

meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club

1

program (e.g. theatre, theater); programme; (theatrical) piece; number; performance

1

narration

2

to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.); to imbue with; to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. of a voice)

1

reading in a monotone; stiff delivery; wooden delivery; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese

1

translation; deciphering; decoding; translation

1

illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure

2

Christmas carol

2

to delight; to please; to make (someone) happy; to give pleasure (to)

1

very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly

3

Scrooge

1

sympathy; empathy; response; identification (with someone)

1

Ebbe

1

early days; early years; early stages; initial stages; beginning

1

once again; yet again; (there you go) again

1

spending Christmas alone

1

Christmas Eve; holy night

1

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

1

darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy

1

sudden emergence; sudden formation; coming out of nowhere; bursting onto the scene

1

highly virtuous monk; monk; Buddhist solitary; Buddhist missionary; saint (i.e. a virtuous person); (arch.) emperor; master

1

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

1

descent (to earth, esp. of a god); advent; epiphany; arrival (of an important person); appearance

1

to behave well (of a child)

1