jpdb beta

chuckle; giggle

7

good person; virtuous person

1

How are you?; What's up?

1

comfortable; carefree

2

day trip

1

haberdashery; sundries store

2

quality collar for an under kimono

2

pharmacy; drugstore; chemist's (shop); pharmacist; druggist; chemist

1

ointment; salve

4

gently (falling)

1

from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved

1

toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything

4

artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)

1

salve; ointment; potion

2

common carp (Cyprinus carpio); koi carp

15

candied (chestnuts); sweetened boiled fish

12

way of eating; how to eat

2

social standing of a family; lineage; parentage; good family

4

dresser

4

(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of

1

yukata (light cotton kimono worn in the summer or used as a bathrobe)

1

to become defiant; to fight back; to turn upon; to take the offensive

1

rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous

2

receiver; recipient

1

charm; fascination; glamour; glamor; attraction; appeal

3

to dig your own grave; to bring calamity upon oneself; to put your foot in it

1

counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper); (arch.) counter for positions or roles; (arch.) counter for food portions (now only gyōza and soba); counter for ranking level

1

to accept a kind offer; to take someone up on their offer

2

swelling; boil

1

effectiveness; efficacy; efficaciousness

1

apron

2

windmill; wind turbine; pinwheel (toy); windmill (toy); Clematis patens (species of climbing plant)

2

small wooden Japanese toy that flies when spun between the palms of one's hands

2

to begin to turn

1

race game (board game where the object is to reach the goal first); trad. Japanese board games played with dice, esp. ban-sugoroku

3

paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony); paper used for writing tanka

3

traditional ordering of the Japanese syllabary; fundamentals; the ABCs of ...

12

writing; composition; essay; sentence

1

to transcribe; to copy

3

dust; trash; garbage; negligible amount; tiny bit; hustle and bustle (of life)

1

to live a wicked life

1

remote mountain; mountain recesses

5

The Tale of Genji (manga)

1

reading and writing

1

to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed

2

tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?

1

to make tea

3

cake or snack served with tea

1

to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail

2

ascent; climbing; ascending (path); upbound (esp. toward Tokyo)

1