expression:

• sleep four hours and pass, sleep five hours and fail (when cramming for university entrance exams) - four character idiom

expression:

• Riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; Fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow - four character idiom

expression:

• amateurish and haughty way of doing business; venturing into an unfamiliar line of business (and often failing) ➜ 士族

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• being both repellant and attractive at the same time; being both cute and disgusting - slang - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to impersonate someone; to go under a false name; to make fraudulent use of someone's name ➜ 騙る【かたる】

noun:

• three shop system; system employed by pachinko parlours of using separate shops to exchange prizes for cash as a way of circumventing Japan's gambling laws

noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起

noun:

• central figure; pillar (e.g. of the nation); mainstay; chief support; leader
• chief; boss; leader; head
• master carpenter
• beams and ridge supports of a roof - orig. meaning

noun:

• the eight precepts (in addition to the five precepts, prohibitions against: lying in a luxurious bed; self-decoration, song & dance; and eating after noon) - Buddhism term ➜ 五戒

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to come and go; to go back and forth

noun:

• separation of church and state; separation of religious ritual and government administration - four character idiom

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) - four character idiom

noun:

• profit-and-loss arithmetic; calculating profit and loss; mercenary point of view - four character idiom

noun:

• scenic sites and historic places; places of natural beauty and historic interest - four character idiom

expression:

• all pain and no gain; lots of pain and not much gain - idiom

noun:

• Saint Christopher and Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) ➜ 春秋戦国【しゅんじゅうせんごく】

noun:

• Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher and Nevis ➜ セントクリストファーネイビス

noun:

• (a) mood; (a) smile or a frown - four character idiom

expression:

• a dime a dozen; two a penny

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be at wit's end; to be at a loss for what to do

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put the scalpel to; to perform an operation on
• to take drastic measures to get to the bottom of something; to make a searching inquiry; to put something under the microscope - idiom

noun:

• news (from somebody); letter; contact
• (somebody's) whereabouts; (somebody's) movements

noun:

• food (esp. chicken and vegetables) boiled in plain water (or sometimes dashi, etc.) and served with dipping sauce (esp. ponzu) - Food term

expression / noun:

• why-why analysis; method of questioning that leads to the identification of the root cause(s) of a problem