Jiten beta

medicine; pharmaceuticals; (legal) drugs; pill; ointment; salve ; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.) ; (pottery) glaze ; (illegal) drug; narcotic ; small bribe

持(も)つ

| x3 | Rank #122

to hold (in one's hand); to take; to carry ; to possess; to have; to own ; to maintain; to keep ; to last; to be durable; to keep; to survive ; to take charge of; to be in charge of ; to hold (meeting, etc.); to have (opportunity, etc.) ; to have "it"; to have that special something; to be blessed with good luck

もうすぐ

| x1 | Rank #780

soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost

敵(てき)

| x1 | Rank #724

opponent; rival; adversary ; menace; danger; threat; enemy

カー

| x1 | Rank #1,428

car

そば

| x3 | Rank #937

near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides; while ; third person

汽(き)笛(てき)

| x2 | Rank #19,292

steam whistle

セミ

| x2 | Rank #10,862

cicada; locust ; small-sized pulley

鳴(な)き声(ごえ)

| x2 | Rank #3,139

cry (of an animal); call; chirp; song; caw; roar; bark; yelp; meow

鐘(かね)の音(ね)

| x2 | Rank #10,531

chimes; toll of a bell

女(じょ)性(せい)

| x2 | Rank #642

woman; female ; feminine gender

歌(うた)声(ごえ)

| x9 | Rank #6,743

singing voice; (sound of) singing

東(とう)京(きょう)

| x6 | Rank #1,168

Tokyo

絹子

| x42 | Rank #72,510

Kinuko ; Masako

去(きょ)年(ねん)

| x3 | Rank #1,801

last year

お世(せ)話(わ)

| x3 | Rank #989

help; aid; assistance

どうぞ

| x3 | Rank #288

please; kindly; pray; I beg (of you) ; by all means; certainly; of course; (go) ahead; (feel) free (to); (you are) welcome (to); please (help yourself to) ; here you are ; to give

いと

| x16 | Rank #18,045

intention; aim; design

お父(とう)さん

| x16 | Rank #594

father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy; dada ; husband ; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he; him

息子(むすこ)

| x2 | Rank #978

son ; penis

いかす

| x1 | Rank #9,674

to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to capitalise on (experience, etc.) ; to let live; to keep alive ; to revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life ; to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)

第(だい)一(いち)

| x1 | Rank #1,321

first; foremost; number one ; most important ; best; greatest; most ; above all; besides; in any case; to begin with

浮(うわ)気(き)

| x1 | Rank #3,356

extramarital sex; affair; fooling around ; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness; inconstancy; fickleness; caprice

バカ

| x2 | Rank #335

idiot; moron; fool ; stupid; foolish; dull; absurd; ridiculous ; trivial; insignificant; disappointing ; malfunctioning; defective; losing sensation ; incredibly; unusually; exceptionally ; fervent enthusiast; nut; person singularly obsessed with something ; Mactra chinensis (species of trough shell)

体(からだ)

| x1 | Rank #252

body ; torso; trunk ; build; physique; frame; figure ; health; constitution

だから

| x2 | Rank #51

so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why; for that reason ; like I said; I told you already

しかた

| x1 | Rank #4,729

way; method; means; resource; course

おば

| x4 | Rank #1,749

aunt

さち子

| x45 | Rank #81,078

Sachiko

電(でん)報(ぽう)

| x1 | Rank #26,123

打(う)つ

| x1 | Rank #894

to hit; to strike; to knock; to beat; to punch; to slap; to tap; to bang; to clap; to pound ; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (a drum, etc.) ; to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.) ; to move; to impress; to touch ; to drive in; to hammer in; to put in; to inject; to vaccinate ; to type; to send; to transmit ; to insert; to write in; to mark ; to make (noodles, etc.); to prepare ; to till (soil) ; to sprinkle; to throw; to cast

隣(となり)

| x2 | Rank #864

next (to); adjoining; adjacent ; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour; next-door neighbor

部屋(へや)

| x2 | Rank #311

room; chamber ; apartment; flat; pad ; stable

絵(え)

| x2 | Rank #1,540

picture; drawing; painting; sketch ; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

描(えが)く

| x1 | Rank #1,129

to draw; to paint; to sketch ; to depict; to describe ; to picture in one's mind; to imagine ; to form a certain shape (e.g. path of an action, appearance of an object, etc.)

娘(むすめ)

| x2 | Rank #534

daughter ; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)

絵(え)描(か)き

| x1 | Rank #21,953

painter; artist ; drawing pictures; doodling; painting

古(ふる)い

| x1 | Rank #1,156

old; aged; ancient; antiquated; antique; timeworn ; long; since long ago; time-honored ; of the distant past; long-ago ; stale; threadbare; hackneyed; corny ; old-fashioned; outmoded; out-of-date

友(とも)達(だち)

| x1 | Rank #423

friend; companion

円(えん)

| x19 | Rank #870

yen (Japanese monetary unit) ; circle

斎(いみ)

| x13 | Rank #27,082

mourning; abstinence ; taboo ; religious purification ; pure; holy

剛造

| x37 | Rank #109,579

Gouzou ; Takezou

おお

| x1 | Rank #1,449

large; big; great; major; important; serious; heavy; loud ; older; senior ; final; ultimate ; rough; broad; general

はな

| x1 | Rank #2,099

flower; blossom; bloom; petal ; cherry blossom ; beauty ; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms) ; ikebana ; hanafuda ; (the) best ; glorious; lovely

少(すこ)し

| x3 | Rank #216

a little; a bit; a small amount; a few; some; slightly; somewhat ; a little while; a short time; a moment; a minute ; a little way; a short distance

持(も)ち直(なお)す

| x1 | Rank #14,338

to recover; to rally; to improve; to pick up ; to carry in a different way; to change one's grip (on); to shift (a bag, etc.) from one hand to the other

わし

| x2 | Rank #1,825

I; me

慈(うつみ)

| x1 | Rank #37,455

Utsumi ; Megu ; Yasushi

願(ねがい)

| x1 | Rank #7,399

desire; wish; hope ; request; entreaty; plea; appeal ; prayer ; (written) application

奉(ほう)納(のう)

| x1 | Rank #27,324

dedication; offering; presentation; oblation

地(じ)獄(ごく)絵(え)

| x1 | Rank #78,703

picture of Hell; painting representing Hell

腕(うで)

| x1 | Rank #745

arm ; ability; skill; talent; competence ; (physical) strength

ながら

| x5 | Rank #209

while; during; as ; while; although; though; despite; in spite of; notwithstanding ; all; both ; as (e.g. "as always", "as long ago"); in (e.g. "in tears") ; while doing something else (at the same time)

酒(さけ)

| x5 | Rank #1,017

alcohol; sake

身(み)

| x2 | Rank #601

one's body; one's person ; oneself; one's appearance ; one's place (in society, etc.); one's position ; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.); wood (as opposed to bark); blade (as opposed to its handle); container (as opposed to its lid)

持(も)ち崩(くず)す

| x1 | Rank #70,045

to ruin oneself; to degrade oneself

転(ころ)がり込(こ)む

| x1 | Rank #13,056

to roll in; to tumble into; to visit (esp. to stay overnight as an unwanted guest); to come to live with ; to fall in one's way; to fall into one's lap

散(さん)歩(ぽ)

| x1 | Rank #2,355

walk; stroll

なさる

| x2 | Rank #207

to do

おはよう

| x1 | Rank #805

good morning

よう

| x2 | Rank #1,194

counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc. ; counter for boats

刑(けい)事(じ)

| x3 | Rank #3,371

(police) detective ; criminal matter

朝(あさ)早(はや)く

| x1 | Rank #6,242

early in the morning

針谷

| x23 | Rank #142,323

Harigai ; Harigae ; Harigaya ; Haritani ; Hariya

おお

| x1 | Rank #605

oh!; good heavens! ; ugh!; oh no! ; ah!; the penny drops! ; yes!; okay!

だいぶ

| x1 | Rank #1,301

considerably; greatly; a lot

落(お)ちる

| x5 | Rank #451

to fall; to drop; to come down; to crash; to collapse; to cave in; to give way ; to set (of the sun or moon); to sink; to dip; to go down ; to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.); to fall; to drop; to go down; to decline; to deteriorate; to abate (of wind) ; to be inferior (to); to be not as good (as); to fall short (of) ; to come off (of dirt, paint, makeup, etc.); to come out (of a stain); to fade (of colour); to be removed (of an illness, possessing spirit, etc.) ; to disappear (of excess fat); to become thinner; to become leaner ; to be left out; to be omitted; to be missing ; to fail (an exam); to lose (a contest, election, etc.); to be unsuccessful ; to decline (of morals, character, etc.); to become vulgar (e.g. of a conversation); to stoop (to); to sink (so low) ; to be ruined; to go under; to fall (into hell)

わけ

| x2 | Rank #133

reason; grounds; pretext; excuse; motive

斎(いわい)

| x3 | Rank #37,089

congratulation; congratulations; celebration; festival ; congratulatory gift; present

この間(あいだ)

| x1 | Rank #1,408

the other day; lately; recently; during this period ; meanwhile; in the meantime

返(へん)事(じ)

| x1 | Rank #1,015

reply; answer; response

ですか

| x1 | Rank #93

indicates question

嫁(よめ)

| x1 | Rank #1,995

bride ; (one's) daughter-in-law ; wife

そうです

| x4 | Rank #260

that is so; that is right; it looks to me; that's my impression ; people say that; it is said that; I hear that

い

| x2 | Rank #167

strengthens a question, assertion, etc.

大(おお)阪(さか)

| x1 | Rank #5,054

Osaka (city, prefecture)

詐(さ)欺(ぎ)

| x1 | Rank #4,979

fraud; swindle; graft; cheating; trick; scam ; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them; flaking out

ちゃんと

| x2 | Rank #251

diligently; seriously; earnestly; reliably; steadily; legitimately ; perfectly; properly; exactly; orderly; punctually; regularly; safely; in good condition ; sufficiently; satisfactorily ; quickly

県(けん)警(けい)

| x1 | Rank #19,696

prefectural police

問(と)い合(あ)わせ

| x1 | Rank #8,112

inquiry; query; enquiry

書(ふみ)

| x1 | Rank #2,781

letter; note; mail ; book; writings ; literary arts; learning; scholarship

偽(ぎ)造(ぞう)

| x1 | Rank #12,553

forgery; counterfeiting; fabrication; falsification

捕(つか)まえる

| x1 | Rank #1,354

to catch; to capture; to arrest; to seize; to restrain ; to grab; to clutch; to grasp; to seize; to hold on to ; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); to hail (a taxi, waiter, etc.); to hold (someone) back; to detain ; towards (someone); at (someone); in (someone's) face

ちょうど

| x1 | Rank #773

exactly; precisely; just; right; opportunely; fortunately ; just (like); as if; as though

似(に)合(あ)い

| x1 | Rank #3,165

well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable

うち

| x2 | Rank #147

inside; within ; while (e.g. one is young); during; within (e.g. a day); in the course of ; among; amongst; (out) of; between ; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.); amidst; with (e.g. success) ; within oneself; one's feelings; inner thoughts ; we; our company; our organization ; one's home; one's family ; my spouse; my husband; my wife ; signed on behalf of (husband's name) by his wife ; I; me

にも

| x1 | Rank #146

also; too; not ... either; as well; even ; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise

し

| x2 | Rank #64

and; besides; moreover; what's more; not only ... but also ; because; since ; the thing is; for one thing

フフ

| x1 | Rank #1,950

ha ha ha; hee hee hee

こうし

| x1 | Rank #11,147

use; exercise (of one's right, authority, power, etc.)

ないか

| x2 | Rank #421

won't; hasn't; isn't; doesn't ; won't you

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