jpdb beta

farmer; farming family; farmhouse

3

uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)

3

fasting; fast

1

next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence

3

the samurai glories in honourable poverty; keep a stiff upper lip!

1

nth period (e.g. nth class in school day)

1

sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass

5

to beg; to request; to beseech; to implore; to entreat

5

racket; paddle (in table-tennis)

2

hot-water bottle

2

cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull

13

snoringly

2

unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette

3

ho-ho

1

tiny breasts

1

with a snap; (break) cleanly; (rejecting) sternly; flatly; smartly; (dressing up) well

2

home run

2

tennis

1

than; other than; except; but

2

pose; pause

4

blond hair

6

to rustle; to sway; to stir; to flutter

2

blue sky

3

to shine; to glow; to look attractive; to look nice; to be set off (by)

9

to apply for; to make an application; to propose (marriage); to offer (mediation); to make an overture (of peace); to challenge

4

hermit crab; renting a house; tenant

1

employer

8

killing a would-be avenger; having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game

3

to take the initiative

1

settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)

3

stronghold; inner citadel; base; headquarters

1

origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry

8

central; main; just (done); freshly (baked); counter for consecutive losses

3

shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; social withdrawal; shunning other people

8

communication

4

to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)

10

to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful

2

so (e.g. so much, so close, so many, so few)

4

easy; simple; plain

14

to say; to tell; to state; to do

30

swordsmanship

1

long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)

4

overheating; overexcitement

2

tennis court

2

blue sky

3

very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just

1

ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)

4

to throw up (in the air)

1

serve; serving (e.g. of food)

1

structure; construction; posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; readiness; determination

4