expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• having spirit; (being) staunch; having backbone ➜ 骨【ほね】

noun:

• mercenary spirit; mind oriented to money-making

expression / noun:

• water spirit; water nymph; naiad

noun:

• fire spirit; salamander (mythical fire lizard)

noun:

• a gentle spirit is more important than looks; handsome is as handsome does

noun:

• martial spirit; military spirit; the spirit of true warriors - four character idiom

noun:

• spirit medium

expression:

• there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

noun:

• unyielding spirit; indomitable spirit

noun:

• having a samurai's spirit and a merchant's business sense - four character idiom

noun:

• unity of body and spirit - four character idiom

noun:

• the Japanese spirit imbued with Chinese learning - four character idiom

noun:

• spirit of the age; zeitgeist - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be possessed by an evil spirit; to be tempted; to give in to an urge; to succumb to temptation

noun:

• spirit of resistance

noun:

• mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol) - from 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

noun:

• spirit world; underworld; the next world

noun:

• commercial spirit; profit motive

noun:

• spirit of self-denial

noun:

• ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities
• ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami

noun:

• a type of fox spirit

noun:

• spirit of a poem; true meaning of a poem

noun:

• mercantile spirit; mercenary spirit - four character idiom

noun:

• frontier spirit

noun:

• fox spirit - in mythology