Jiten beta

indicates word or phrase being defined ; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.) ; with ; (not) as much as; (not) so much as ; the fact that; to think that; such a thing as

聞(き)く

x7 | Rank #134

to hear ; to listen (e.g. to music) ; to ask; to enquire; to query ; to hear about; to hear of; to learn of ; to follow (advice, order, etc.); to obey; to listen to; to comply with ; to hear (e.g. a plea); to grant (a request); to accept (e.g. an argument); to give consideration to ; to smell (esp. incense); to sample (a fragrance) ; to taste (alcohol); to try

と言(い)う

x1 | Rank #8,397

called; named; that says; that ; as many as; as much as ; all ...; every single ...

で

x42 | Rank #10

at; in ; at; when ; by; with ; within; in ; and then; so ; and; then ; let me tell you; don't you know

お

x33 | Rank #343

oh! (expression of slight surprise)

じゃ

x34 | Rank #47

then; well; so; well then

る

x25 | Rank #647

exile (second most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

見(み)る

x2 | Rank #88

to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe ; to examine; to look over; to assess; to check; to judge ; to look after; to attend to; to take care of; to keep an eye on ; to experience; to meet with (misfortune, success, etc.) ; to try ...; to have a go at ...; to give ... a try ; to see (that) ...; to find (that) ...

食(た)べる

x1 | Rank #249

to eat ; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

飲(の)む

x1 | Rank #448

to drink; to swallow; to take (medicine) ; to smoke (tobacco) ; to swallow up; to engulf ; to suppress (one's anger, bitter feelings, etc.); to keep down; to hold back; to swallow (one's tears); to catch (one's breath) ; to accept (a demand, conditions, etc.); to agree to ; to make light of (someone); to think nothing of; to overwhelm; to overawe ; to carry (a concealed dagger, etc.); to conceal (up one's sleeve, etc.)

人(ひと)

x2 | Rank #82

person; someone; somebody ; human beings; mankind; man; people; humans ; human (Homo sapiens) ; (other) people; others ; character; personality; nature ; capable person; competent person; suitable person; right person ; adult; grown-up ; I; me; one

の

x78 | Rank #1

indicates possessive ; nominalizes verbs and adjectives ; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases ; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion ; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis ; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

楽(たの)しみ

x1 | Rank #901

enjoyment; pleasure; amusement; delight; joy; fun; diversion; hobby ; anticipation; looking forward to; something to look forward to

には

x10 | Rank #37

to; for; on; in; at ; in order to; for ; as for; regarding ; while it is (was) the case that ...; indeed ... (but); certainly ... (but)

けど

x3 | Rank #34

but; however; although

を

x42 | Rank #3

indicates direct object of action ; indicates subject of causative expression ; indicates an area traversed ; indicates time (period) over which action takes place ; indicates point of departure or separation of action ; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

いう

x1 | Rank #158

to say; to utter; to declare ; to name; to call ; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

こと

x13 | Rank #13

thing; matter ; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis ; circumstances; situation; state of affairs ; work; business; affair ; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to ; nominalizing suffix ; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ; alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or ; necessity; need ; you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...

ほど

x2 | Rank #224

extent; degree; measure ; limit; bounds ; (span of) time ; (a) distance ; the state of; the status of; the condition of ; about; around; approximately; or so ; as much as ...; to the extent of ...; like ... ; the more ... the more ...

雅(みやび)

x2 | Rank #7,375

refinement; elegance; grace

もの

x9 | Rank #78

thing; object; article; stuff; substance ; one's things; possessions; property; belongings ; things; something; anything; everything; nothing ; quality ; reason; the way of things ; used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen ; item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ... ; cause of ...; cause for ... ; somehow; somewhat; for some reason ; really; truly

じゃり

x11 | Rank #16,389

gravel; ballast; pebbles ; child; rugrat; ankle-biter

ませ

x1 | Rank #7,825

please ; used to increase the politeness of a greeting

ぬ

x3 | Rank #2,290

not

道(みち)

x5 | Rank #472

road; path; street; lane; passage ; route; way ; distance; journey ; road (e.g. to victory); course ; way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles ; teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma ; field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality ; means; way; method

いろんな

x1 | Rank #1,464

various; a variety of; all sorts of; many (different)

流(りゅう)派(は)

x1 | Rank #19,850

school (of painting, ikebana, etc.)

が

x44 | Rank #4

indicates the subject of a sentence ; indicates possession ; but; however; (and) yet; though; although; while ; and ; used after an introductory remark or explanation ; regardless of ...; whether ... (or not); no matter ... ; indicates a desire or hope ; softens a statement ; indicates doubt ; indicates scorn

まする

x8 | Rank #70,096

used to indicate respect for the listener (or reader)

こちら

x2 | Rank #263

this way; this direction ; here ; this (one) ; I; me; we; us ; this person

笛(ふえ)

x5 | Rank #6,540

flute; fife; pipe; recorder; flageolet; shakuhachi; clarinet ; whistle

小(しょう)路(じ)

x5 | Rank #26,332

lane; alley

流(りゅう)

x4 | Rank #2,740

way; manner; style; fashion; mode ; school (e.g. of flower arrangement) ; class; rate; rank ; flow; current; stream

長(なが)らく

x1 | Rank #16,913

long; (for a) long time

途(と)絶(だ)える

x1 | Rank #10,169

to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off

と

x48 | Rank #6

if; when ; and ; with ; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.) ; promoted pawn ; indicates a question

思(おも)う

x3 | Rank #73

to think; to consider; to believe; to reckon ; to think (of doing); to plan (to do) ; to judge; to assess; to regard ; to imagine; to suppose; to dream ; to expect; to look forward to ; to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want ; to care (deeply) for; to yearn for; to worry about; to love ; to recall; to remember

て

x5 | Rank #21

you said; he said; she said; they said ; even if ; do you seriously think that ; I already told you; you should know by now that; of course ; the said ...; said ... ; says that ... ; I hear that ... ; as for the term ... ; as for ...

ました

x1 | Rank #8,085

right under; directly below; right beneath

しかし

x3 | Rank #162

however; but

あの

x3 | Rank #49

that; those; the

美(うつく)しい

x1 | Rank #1,124

beautiful; pretty; lovely; sweet; pure (heart, friendship, etc.)

瑠(る)璃(り)

x14 | Rank #5,046

lapis lazuli ; lapis lazuli (color) ; beryl ; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail) ; glass

姫(ひめ)

x18 | Rank #792

young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.) ; girl ; small; cute; lesser (in names of species) ; prostitute

はん

x20 | Rank #3,812

perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime

ような

x6 | Rank #101

like; similar to ; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that) ; feels like; feels similar to; feels as if

お方(かた)

x2 | Rank #3,624

lady; gentleman; person

たった

x1 | Rank #1,465

only; merely; but; no more than

１(ひと)人(り)

x2 | Rank #433

one person ; being alone; being by oneself ; being single; being unmarried ; by oneself; alone ; just; only; simply

守(まも)る

x1 | Rank #379

to protect; to guard; to defend ; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe; to obey; to follow

本(ほん)当(とう)に

x1 | Rank #182

really; truly

驚(おどろ)く

x1 | Rank #845

to be surprised; to be taken aback; to be amazed; to be astonished; to be shocked ; to be frightened; to be startled; to be alarmed

こなた

x3 | Rank #24,771

this way; here ; the person in question; he; she; him; her ; since (a time in the past); prior to (a time in the future) ; me ; you

ぜひとも

x1 | Rank #13,080

by all means; at all costs; absolutely

婚(こん)姻(いん)

x1 | Rank #14,504

marriage; matrimony

再(ふたた)び

x1 | Rank #903

again; once more; a second time

盛(も)り立(た)てる

x1 | Rank #59,592

to revive (e.g. a company); to boost (e.g. morale)

婿(むこ)

x10 | Rank #8,427

husband; groom ; (one's) son-in-law

候(こう)補(ほ)

x3 | Rank #3,687

candidate; contender; prospect; pick; choice; list ; candidacy; candidature; nomination

に

x32 | Rank #5

at (place, time); in; on; during ; to (direction, state); toward; into ; for (purpose) ; because of (reason); for; with ; by; from ; as (i.e. in the role of) ; per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month") ; and; in addition to ; if; although

名(な)乗(の)り

x3 | Rank #15,764

giving one's name; self-introduction ; announcing one's name, rank, lineage, etc. (of a samurai on the battlefield) ; name given to male members of the nobility and samurai class upon coming of age ; Japanese kanji reading used in names

ほかにも

x1 | Rank #11,205

furthermore; even more

３(さん)人(にん)

x1 | Rank #757

three people

合(あ)わせる

x1 | Rank #1,066

to match (rhythm, speed, etc.) ; to join together; to unite; to combine; to add up ; to face; to be opposite (someone) ; to compare; to check with ; to cause to meet (e.g. an unpleasant fate) ; to place together; to connect; to overlap ; to mix; to combine ; to put blade to blade; to fight

４(よ)人(にん)

x6 | Rank #2,147

four people

上(あ)げる

x1 | Rank #846

to raise; to elevate ; to do up (one's hair) ; to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to surface (a submarine, etc.) ; to land (a boat) ; to deep-fry ; to show someone (into a room) ; to give ; to send someone (away) ; to enrol (one's child in school); to enroll ; to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to develop (talent, skill); to improve

ので

x6 | Rank #115

that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...

も

x17 | Rank #7

too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence) ; both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) ; even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than ; even if; even though; although; in spite of ; further; more; again; another; the other

大(たい)層(そう)

x1 | Rank #10,233

very; extremely; exceedingly; greatly; terribly ; extreme; excessive; great many; large number of ; splendid; impressive; tremendous; immense ; exaggerated

困(こま)る

x1 | Rank #591

to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be in a fix; to be at a loss; to be stumped; to be embarrassed ; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be annoyed ; to be badly off; to be hard up; to be in straitened circumstances

でしょう

x1 | Rank #155

it seems; I think; I guess; I wonder ; right?; don't you agree?

組(くみ)

x3 | Rank #1,173

class (of students) ; group (of people); party; team; crew ; lot; bunch; set ; crime family; organized-crime syndicate ; set (of items); assortment; deck (of cards); pack ; typesetting; composition

つまり

x1 | Rank #404

that is to say; that is; in other words; I mean; that (this, it) means ; in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it; basically ; clogging; obstruction; stuffing; (degree of) blockage ; shrinkage ; end; conclusion ; dead end; corner ; distress; being at the end of one's rope

戦(たたか)う

x1 | Rank #466

to make war (on); to wage war (against); to go to war (with); to fight (with); to do battle (against) ; to compete (against) ; to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight; to contend; to resist

決(き)める

x2 | Rank #467

to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix ; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match) ; to persist in doing; to go through with ; to always do; to have made a habit of ; to take for granted; to assume ; to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines ; to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing ; to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.) ; to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs

する

x8 | Rank #18

to do; to carry out; to perform ; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into) ; to serve as; to act as; to work as ; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.) ; to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as ; to decide on; to choose ; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) ; to be (in a state, condition, etc.) ; to be worth; to cost ; to pass (of time); to elapse

半井

x1 | Rank #92,883

Nakabai ; Nakarai

廻(かい)船(せん)

x1 | Rank #87,543

lighter; (small) cargo vessel

問(とん)屋(や)

x1 | Rank #20,532

wholesale store; wholesale dealer; wholesaler

営(いとな)む

x1 | Rank #17,417

to run (a business); to operate; to conduct; to practice (law, medicine, etc.) ; to carry out; to perform; to lead (a life) ; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)

では

x7 | Rank #70

then; well; so; well then ; bye then ; at; in; by; with; using ; if not ...; unless ...

知(し)る

x2 | Rank #131

to know; to be aware (of); to be conscious (of); to learn (of); to find out; to discover ; to sense; to feel; to notice; to realize ; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to appreciate ; to remember; to be familiar with; to be acquainted with ; to experience; to go through; to know (e.g. hardship) ; to get acquainted with (a person); to get to know ; to have to do with; to be concerned with; to be one's concern; to be one's responsibility

先(せん)だって

x1 | Rank #37,795

the other day; some time ago; recently

奥(おく)方(がた)

x1 | Rank #13,923

lady; nobleman's wife

亡(な)くす

x1 | Rank #6,626

to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)

ルナ

x1 | Rank #3,693

Luna (goddess)

さよう

x5 | Rank #6,455

so; like that ; that's right; indeed ; let me see...

でん

x4 | Rank #4,122

legend; tradition ; biography; life ; method; way ; horseback transportation and communication relay system used in ancient Japan

な

x19 | Rank #17

don't ; do ; hey; listen; look; say ; now, ...; well, ...; I tell you!; you know ; wow; ooh ; right?; isn't it?; doesn't it?; don't you?; don't you think?

室(むろ)町(まち)

x1 | Rank #40,732

Muromachi period (1336-1573)

東(ひがし)

x2 | Rank #1,757

east

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