jpdb beta

to kick; to refuse; to reject; to stamp (on the ground); to firmly press one's feet (against something)

3

to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)

1

fresh (e.g. fish); lively; spirited; animated

1

beefsteak plant; perilla; megaphylls; (lit.) large leaf

1

shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa); perilla; beefsteak plant

2

buying; purchasing

1

ginger (Zingiber officinale)

1

seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause

2

contact; connectedness; rapport; mutual touching

1

reason for living; something one lives for; purpose in life; raison d'être

1

gestures; gesturing

1

to mix; to combine; to exchange (words, fire, etc.); to cross (e.g. swords); to join together

1

(of a lie, etc.) obvious; transparent

5

two or three

2

to blank out; to panic

7

to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)

3

fast-talking; rapid talking

1

to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)

4

staying up late; keeping late hours; sitting up late at night; nighthawk

5

tsk; tut; shoot; chirp

9

to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for

2

evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights

4

very much; exceedingly; extremely

2

doctor

1

to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace

4

illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault

1

bathtub; boat with a bathtub rented to customers (Edo period)

10

staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock, etc.)

7

moderate

2

letter; missive; note; mail

9

writing paper; stationery; notepaper

8

to be transparent; to show through

14

ink

1

puberty; adolescence

4

self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself

3

cone (e.g. pine, hemlock)

2

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

1

to read (a book, etc.) over again

1

whisper; murmur

3

odd; strange; queer; peculiar

2

ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound

1

reply; answer; response

1

what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?

4

comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable

1

upturned eyes

11

to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)

1

warmth

5

eager; earnest; ardent; OFF (on switch)

8

memory; sense; experience

4

to have tears in one's eyes; to be close to crying

5