noun:

• combined school (e.g. junior high and high school) ➜ 中高一貫校【ちゅうこういっかんこう】

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to be equal to; to be as good as; to be a match for; to rival

noun:

• steaming basket; wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot - 井籠 (rarely 井篭) refers to a square basket
• soba served on a small wickerwork tray; wickerwork tray (for serving soba)

noun:

• famous place
• name of a part (of an instrument, etc.) ［などころ］
• name and address ［などころ］

noun:

• bring-your-own (e.g. food and drink); carry-on (e.g. luggage)

noun:

• Northern and Southern Dynasties (in Japan: 1336-1392 CE, in China: 420-581 CE)

noun:

• live fish and shellfish (kept in a tank in a restaurant)

noun:

• tinkering; mending pots, pans, kettles
• man and woman walking together; couple walking together - archaism

godan ~う verb:

• to crowd together in a confined space; to gather and make a commotion

noun:

• making one's attitude (position, stand) clear; unfurling and clearly showing one's banner [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• pair of persons (especially a married couple) being intimate and harmonious; being happily married - four character idiom ➜ 琴瑟相和す

noun:

• big fuss over nothing; much cry and little wool; much ado about nothing - four character idiom

noun:

• a single tree or blade of grass; every stick and stone (of a place) - four character idiom

noun:

• red blossoms and green willows; beautiful scenery of spring; natural beauty; beauty of nature - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• being sick and tired (of); being fed up (with); having one's fill (of) - four character idiom

noun:

• clear accounting; honest accounting (billing); transparent billing practices (in restaurant and bar charges, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• red blossoms and green willows; beautiful scenery of spring; natural beauty; beauty of nature - four character idiom

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to ration out and survive on (some food)
• to eke out a living

noun:

• search and recovery dive

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees) - obscure term ➜ 四衆

expression:

• show me a liar, and I will show you a thief - proverb

noun:

• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

~と adverb / adverb:

• wet and glistening; slimy; slippery

~する noun:

• to have a sheen; to be slimy

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a convex semi-cylindrical tile and a decorative pendant) ➜ 丸瓦・瓦当

noun:

• eave-end roof tile (comprising a convex semi-cylindrical tile and a decorative pendant) - archaism ➜ 軒丸瓦