noun:

• understanding completely; understanding all there is to know

noun:

• no game; game that is stopped before it can be considered an official game (e.g. due to rainout) - Baseball term

noun:

• independent city; city that is not part of another local government entity

noun:

• Eumetazoa; clade containing most animal groups

noun:

• work of art the creator has confidence in; work one is proud of

noun:

• incapacitated rape; sexual assault against somebody who is intoxicated, asleep or otherwise unable to consent or resist - Law term

expression:

• a wise man keeps some of his talents in reserve; one shouldn't show off; the person who knows most often says least; a skilled hawk hides its talons [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• the prospects look brighter; there is hope of accomplishing (something)

expression:

• things don't work that well in the real world; things seldom go as one wishes; that is expecting too much; it won't be that easy - idiom

noun:

• according to (depending on) one's ability; if one is good (competent, talented) enough - four character idiom

noun:

• harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony - four character idiom

noun:

• excellent-good-poor; first-second-third (class)
• (in) three volumes (a literary work)

noun:

• mutual mourning; when one is in mourning, one doesn not make condolence calls or offers of help to others in mourning

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

noun:

• green mandarin; mandarin variety that can be eaten while the skin is green

noun:

• (crime of) incapacitated rape; crime of sexual assault against somebody who is intoxicated, asleep or otherwise unable to consent or resist - Law term

noun:

• everybody's friend; person who is affable to everybody - oft. used derogatively
• flawlessly beautiful woman; flawless beauty

expression:

• inscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable - proverb

noun:

• the next child; second child

expression:

• this means; that is to say ➜ と言うのは

noun:

• the last half-year; second half of the year

expression:

• had better; is advisable ➜ 方がよい

noun:

• the certainty of divine punishment; Swift is Heaven's vengeance - four character idiom

noun:

• intermediate system; IS - IT term

noun:

• tending to find things bothersome; person who tends to find most things bothersome