noun / adjectival noun:

• cruel; brutal; atrocious; merciless - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• deep regret; bitter disappointment; chagrin; vexation - four character idiom

expression:

• people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• being faithful to one's principles; being of firm purpose and deep commitment; constancy; true blue - four character idiom

noun:

• discreet and well-advised judgment; wise and mature judgment; making judgment with prudence - four character idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• heaps of corpses all around - four character idiom

noun:

• finding a way out of a potentially fatal situation; seeking a way out of a desperate situation - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• desire to act only in one's self-interest; selfish desires - four character idiom

noun:

• Chinese and Japanese poetry and instrumental music; poetry and music; literature and music - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish - four character idiom

noun:

• facts being beyond dispute; logic being indisputable - four character idiom

noun:

• nation's times of peace and war, rise and fall - four character idiom

noun:

• (something that is) available for use at any time; (someone who is) at one's beck and call; (something over which) one has complete mastery - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• concealing one's talents, position, status, intentions, etc. - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• free and easy; open and natural; not fastidious - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• working out one's salvation by own efforts; rehabilitating oneself by one's own efforts; rectifying one's ways of life without relying on others' help - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• giving a loud pep talk; encouraging (somebody) strongly in a loud voice - four character idiom

noun:

• enlightenment of the masses; leading the masses on the path of enlightenment (Buddhism) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• announcing the succession to another's stage name - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• considering (a matter) carefully and silently; being lost in silent contemplation - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• reading carefully with appreciation; giving (something) a careful perusal - four character idiom

expression:

• a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a thousand pieces of gold) - four character idiom

noun:

• spring day being long and balmy; serene spring day - four character idiom

noun:

• small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state) - four character idiom