noun:

• mass culture; pop culture; popular culture; culture of the people (as opposed to the elite)

noun:

• fa; fah; 4th note in the tonic solfa representation of the diatonic scale

noun:

• being once divorced; one-time divorcee; one x mark, i.e. one name struck from the koseki [literal] - humorous term ➜ 戸籍

noun / ~の noun:

• instantaneous; blindingly quick; (in) the blink of an eye

noun:

• superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words - four character idiom

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

noun:

• miosis; myosis; (excessive) constriction of the pupil Antonym: 散瞳

adverb:

• from afar; over a great distance; all the way

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to go up in smoke; to burn down; to be cremated; to vanish into thin air

noun:

• one digit; one column; the "ones" column

~と adverb:

• feelings; memories; imagined items or dreams that sprout up one after the other - onomatopoeia ➜ にょきにょき

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

noun:

• mercantile mind-set; mercenary spirit; being intent on making a profit - four character idiom

noun:

• tatami chair; legless chair; small, legless chair used while sitting on tatami

noun:

• suitable person; fit person; the fit

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint - four character idiom

expression:

• one of these days; before very long; in the near future

noun:

• Lingchi; Leng Tch'e; slow torture by slicing off parts of the body

noun:

• right-hand match; ends-with match; backward match; matching a sub-string with the end of a field - IT term ➜ 前方一致・部分一致

noun:

• performance; take; going before an audience or on-air - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】
• game; season; crucial moment - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】
• actual sexual intercourse (i.e. not simulated); penetration - colloquialism ➜ 本番【ほんばん】

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

expression:

• saying no is also an expression of fondness; no often means yes; the lady doth protest too much - proverb

noun:

• hiking; tramping; walking in the country - From German "Wanderung"

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying out one's words; being as good as one's word; making good on one's promise - four character idiom

noun:

• flashing lights; revolving lights; lights used on the top of emergency vehicles