jpdb beta

to push open

3

wood carving; wooden sculpture; woodcraft

1

half; 50%; 5 parts; 5%; equality; equal footing

3

seven tenths; seventy percent; seven hundreds; seven percent

1

parasite

2

semi-transparent; translucent

1

host; landlord; innkeeper

1

to bite and tear; to bite a hole in

1

centre; center; pivot; central nervous system

2

statue of Buddha; image of Buddha; Buddhist statue; Buddhist image

1

under cover of night

1

to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

3

disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes

1

offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering

1

to eat untidily; to eat messily; to eat a bit of everything; to leave things half-eaten; to dabble in (something); to try one's hand at (various things)

1

very; greatly; extremely; exceedingly; highly; quite

2

the four seasons

2

cradle

2

baby; infant

2

malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)

1

Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person

1

great fortune; good luck; rice cake stuffed with bean jam

1

red bean paste; red bean jam; kudzu sauce; filling (of a dumpling, etc.); filling; stuffing

1

rather; better

2

ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid

3

worship

1

bad; evil

2

sign; indication; omen; symptom

1

to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely

8

dropping (of tears, dew, etc.); falling off; dropping off; inadvertently (coming to the surface); letting out (e.g. a secret)

2

humorous flavour; something comical

2

to be inherent (in); to reside (in); to be immanent (in); immanence

2

saucer; person (group, institution, etc.) to take over a position or matter; receptacle (e.g. of funds); receiver

3

to be perfectly clear (water, air, etc.); to clear up

3

former opinion

1

to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)

4

to fly in the air

1

to become desperate; to give in to despair

1

center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused

9

unexpected; unsuspected

6

apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal

2

flat; superficial; surface-level; one-dimensional

1

helical; spiral-shaped

1

cylindrical; tubular

1

one leaf (of a book bound in Japanese style); one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. a gun, scissors, spade, hoe, inkstick, palanquin, candle, jinrikisha, shamisen, oar); one chō (unit of distance, approx. 109.09 m); one game; one task

4

with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh; suddenly blushing; in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly

1

indolence; laziness; sloth; idleness

1

-itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)

1

already completely (did, happened, etc.); already entirely

2

name; title

1