jpdb beta

gaudy; loud; garish; intense; harsh; extreme

2

around the world; throughout the world

4

Chinatown

1

home area; home town; local

2

natural features; topography; climate; spiritual features

2

disregarding; ignoring

12

peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic

4

cultural sphere

1

establishment; settlement

5

is not; am not; are not

20

of Asian descent

1

yellow race; Mongoloid race

1

coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing

1

Chinese person

3

to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.)

4

Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.); Sino-

1

townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

2

to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)

2

elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself

15

to remonstrate; to admonish (someone) for; to advise (someone) not to; to warn against

3

confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)

20

et cetera; etc.; and the like; the likes of; something like

3

however; whatever

3

role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role

8

money; metal

22

to run swiftly; to dash; to rush; to race

1

to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant

40

skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid

3

Shiga

191

bull; bulldog; bulldozer; bourgeois; bourgeoisie

3

to be believed to; to be expected to; to be feared to; to be poised to; to be considered to; to be likely to

1

end; close; finish; termination

1

attack; offence; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; a barrage of; a flood of

1

one move (in go, shogi, etc.); only way; only means; doing alone; doing single-handed

2

at one's feet; underfoot; gait; pace; most recent; current

13

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

11

to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)

8

keep ...-ing; have been ...-ing; leaving (something) on; leaving (something) still in use

7

Kabukichō

5

3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma

7

to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set

2

self-study; teaching oneself; studying by oneself (at school) while the teacher is absent

1

(school) subject; curriculum; course; item; heading; entry

1

necessities of life (food, clothing and shelter)

1

necessities; necessary article; requisite; essentials

1

to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)

2

railroad; railway; rail transport

1

railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations

5

block (of land)

3

division; section; demarcation; partition; segmentation; subdivision

1