jpdb beta

cleaning with a cloth (floors, etc.); dirty work; low-level work; apprentice work

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invisibly; secretly; privately

1

box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building

10

to open the lid; to lift a lid; to open the lid (on); to make public; to start (something); to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect)

2

burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case

1

colored pencil; coloured pencil

3

playing house

2

toy box; toy chest

1

two sheets (pieces) (of paper)

1

to fold up; to fold into layers

1

to join hands (with)

5

one thin flat object; one sheet

2

letter; missive; note; mail

7

with difficulty; faltering; tottering; awkward

1

lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs

1

ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)

1

independence; autonomy; self-reliance

2

practice; practising; training; study

2

swaying; swinging; rocking; shaking; wavering; flickering

1

to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce

1

princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue

1

prince; subordinate Kumano shrine

2

happy; auspicious; propitious; naive

2

ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly

4

to sigh; to breathe a sigh

2

princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue

4

eye

1

behavior; behaviour; manner; attitude; bearing

6

mutual love

1

interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)

3

yoo-hoo; halloo; hi-de-ho; howdy; hey

1

while studying

1

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.)

2

to let out a cry; to shout

1

to shrug one's shoulders

5

thickheaded; obtuse; slow; sluggish; indulgent (esp. to the opposite sex); doting

1

sillago (any fish of genus Sillago, esp. the Japanese whiting, Sillago japonica)

1

female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress

1

to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched

2

to make a joint vow; to swear together; to pledge

1

shrill whistling sound; reddening or brightening slightly; rush of blood to the head

1

to raise (usu. one's shoulders, with a jaunty, swaggering effect)

3

extreme; radical

1

low voice; whisper

4

to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)

2

to visit; (arch.) (original meaning) to make a noise

1

judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of

1

trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick

1

fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth

1

Baekje (ancient Korean kingdom; 18 BCE-660 CE); Paekche

1