noun / ~の noun:

• red and white; colours for festive or auspicious occasions (colors)

noun:

• two teams; two groups
• Red and White singing contest; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK) - abbreviation ➜ 紅白歌合戦【こうはくうたがっせん】

noun:

• the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to quarry; to cut (timber); to cut and carry off ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす］
• to begin to talk; to break the ice; to broach ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す］
• to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.) ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・鑽り出す］
• to select and extract (from a media file); to splice out ［切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす］

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up while hitting the ball; keeping one's chin up and not looking at the ball while hitting it - Sports term - From English "head up"

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (the parts one is interested in); reading here and there; skimming through; browsing
• reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand

noun:

• making a piece of clothing with the same cloth inside and out; making a kimono with lining of the same fabric - four character idiom

noun:

• secretary-general; general secretary (esp. of Communist parties of the Democratic Republic of North Korea and the People's Republic of China) ➜ 主席

expression:

• rubbernecking; the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• class; order; rank

suffix:

• et cetera; etc.; and the like ➜ 等【など】

prefix:

• equal; iso-

noun / ~の noun:

• black person

noun:

• woman in the nightlife business; demimondaine; geisha and prostitutes - archaism ➜ 玄人

expression:

• more haste, less speed; slow and steady wins the race - proverb

noun:

• the five sins in Buddhism (murder, theft, adultery, falsehood and drink)

noun:

• the five cardinal Confucian virtues (justice, politeness, wisdom, fidelity and benevolence)

noun:

• the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, and down)

prefix:

• hexagonal

noun:

• ANZUS Treaty (Australia, New Zealand and the United States)

noun:

• wrestler who keeps going up and down the rankings - Sumo term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事渺茫

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom

expression:

• Wrong and right are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom

expression:

• Good and evil are but two faces of the same coin - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• Blossoms fall and leaves scatter; the evanescence (impermanence) of worldly things - four character idiom

noun:

• objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifing the direct object

noun:

• knee touch down - Sumo term
• posture with knees and toes on the floor

noun:

• silpasthanavidya (ancient Indian study of the arts, incl. mathematics and mechanics) ➜ 五明