noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame [literal] - four character idiom

expression:

• a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood - four character idiom

noun:

• Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii, species of requiem shark found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil) ➜ カリビアンリーフシャーク

noun:

• whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)

noun:

• Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar

expression:

• taking pride in one's humility is a form of bragging; he that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted; too much humility is pride - proverb

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁

expression:

• whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by

noun:

• draft (esp. in baseball) - Sports term
• draft; rough copy; rough sketch
• draught (beer); draft
• draft (air current); draught

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand

noun:

• locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be dizzy; to be disoriented
• to be dazzled
• to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.) ➜ 金に目が眩む

expression:

• red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning - proverb

adverb:

• holding horizontally in one's mouth; holding on the side of one's mouth

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to be absorbed in; to lose oneself to
• to disguise oneself as; to adorn oneself

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rub in; to smear on; to spread on; to daub
• to lay the blame on ➜ 擦り付ける【なすりつける】

noun:

• course (route, trail, course of study, course of action, plan, option)
• full course meal (multiple dishes served in sequence); prix fixe meal

noun / ~する noun:

• dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip
• going the long way round; making a detour

noun:

• hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the left hand and an over-arm grip with the right - Sumo term

noun:

• dish broiled in a mix of soy sauce, mirin, etc.; broiling with soy sauce, mirin, etc. - Food term

noun:

• vertically segmented administrative system; overcompartmentalized bureaucracy; system in which interministerial rivalry diminishes overall efficiency; (bureaucratic) sectionalism; interministerial rivalry; bureaucratic fiefdoms - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl

noun:

• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try ➜ 現役

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to throw something to each other; to pass something back and forth; to bandy something around
• to take part in a pitching duel - Baseball term