noun:

• colour and lustre; color and luster; complexion; colour; color

noun:

• hide-and-seek (game); hide-and-go-seek

expression / adverb:

• by day and night; day and night; round the clock

noun:

• every single word and phrase; each and every word - four character idiom

noun:

• every single word and phrase; each and every word - four character idiom

noun:

• one's family and relatives; one's kith and kin - four character idiom

noun:

• discrimination of right and wrong; distinguishing between right and wrong - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• speak and write plainly (frankly); speak and write without reserve - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• being young and spirited; being young and full of go - four character idiom

expression:

• Matter and mind are one; body and mind as one - four character idiom

noun:

• both labor and management; both the workers and the employers - four character idiom

expression:

• make one wrong move and...; take one wrong step and...

noun:

• counting the revenues and expenditures; counting the gains and losses

noun:

• being very talented and intelligent; talented and intelligent person

noun:

• Hemiscyllium (genus of longtail carpet sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with short snouts, nostrils at the tip, and elevated eyes and supraorbital ridges)

noun:

• new straw; straw from the current year
• rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away

noun:

• manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) - honorific language ➜ 用人

noun:

• soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

noun:

• Fukko Shinto; Restoration Shinto; Reform Shinto (prominent 18th century form of Shinto, based on the classics, and free from Confucian and Buddhist influences)

noun:

• calling many harlots and entertainers and have a big party
• starting an important maneuver at the end of a game of go

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; sika deer and maple leaves (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal]

noun:

• businesses offering food and entertainment; cabaret, club, gambling and restaurant businesses
• sex industry; sex-related businesses

adverb / ~と adverb:

• burbling - onomatopoeia
• hollow (sounding) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• holey; full of holes or dents; lumpy; bumpy

adjectival noun:

• viciously beating; hitting and kicking repeatedly ［ボコボコ・ぼこぼこ］ - colloquialism

adverb / ~と adverb:

• here and there ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia
• (sound of) walking slowly ［ポコポコ・ぽこぽこ］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i