jpdb beta

to care for someone; to look after someone

3

sweet and sour; bittersweet (feeling)

1

willpower; guts; determination; character; nature; disposition

3

bum; good-for-nothing; ne'er-do-well

2

small quarrel; dispute; run-in; issue; trouble

2

to chase away; to drive away; to drive out

1

to spoil; to rot; to corrode

2

moreover; besides; in addition; on top of that; to make matters worse

1

you; people

1

omission; failure; incompleteness; irregularity; mismanagement; misconduct

1

smart rabbit; cunning rabbit; nimble rabbit

1

perhaps; maybe; possibly

1

to head towards; to direct one's steps to

1

to be exhausted; to be tired out; to be worn out

1

dropping (something) headfirst down a precipice; downhill rush; plunging down a precipice

1

almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time

4

small boat

1

Chinese matrimony vine (Lycium chinense); Chinese wolfberry; goji

1

large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant

1

sesame seeds; sesame (Sesamum indicum)

1

sesame seeds; sesame (Sesamum indicum)

1

scrape-scrape; with a scraping sound

1

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

1

amorous glance; wink

1

sidelong glance; flirtatious glance

1

manner of speaking; way of speaking; intimation; lip service; words

1

district; quarter; enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork; red-light district; wide and empty

1

to bring in; to take in; to approach (someone) with (a proposal, offer, problem, etc.); to bring; to bring (to another stage); to take (e.g. to court, to extra time, to a play-off)

2

meddling; interfering; choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one

1

trouble; quarrel; difficulties; complication; tangle

1

contemplation; meditation

1

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.; maxim

3

splendid haiku; well-turned phrase

1

to sell well; to sell out; to be worldly and understanding; to be sensible; to be sorted out; to be put in order

3

to recall; to remember

2

sigh; grief; lamentation

1

ashamed

1

player (of music, instrument, etc.)

1

chat-up line; pick-up line; (loving) words

1

implication; significance; connotation; depth of meaning; complications of a problem

1

scholar; academic; scientist; learned person; person of learning

2

precious stone (esp. jade); egg (esp. as a sushi topping); stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold; position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); geisha; time charge for a geisha

1

to hold back (e.g. emotions); to rein in (e.g. a horse, unruly people); to get the better of; to control; to command

1

origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient

3

based on; built on; made from

1

at least

1

to perspire; to sweat

1

devil; evil spirit; genie

1

to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)

1

bittersweet; having mingled feelings of joy and sorrow; joy and sorrow alternating in one's heart

1