noun:

• twill damask and brocade

expression:

• skillfulness and clumsiness

noun:

• ancient inscriptions of Chinese characters on oracle bones and carapaces ➜ 甲骨文字

noun:

• decorative paper envelope for giving New Year's gifts (usu. money given to children) and congratulatory gifts ➜ お年玉【おとしだま】

expression:

• ugliness and beauty

noun:

• research and teaching centre (center)

noun:

• erotic and grotesque nonsense - abbreviation

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

noun:

• research and development; R&D ➜ 研究開発

noun:

• dawn and dusk; morn and eve

noun:

• pursue and attack (a criminal)

expression:

• mixture of wheat and chaff; mixture of the good and bad; jumble of wheat and tares - four character idiom

noun:

• concealed winning hand consisting of chows, a pair that isn't a value pair, and an open wait - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• agricultural and fishing industries

expression:

• wives and tatami are best when they're new

noun / ~する noun:

• sparing life and taking life; letting live and killing ➜ 活殺

expression:

• alpha and omega - obscure term

noun:

• same race and same language

noun:

• Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

noun:

• active and (first) reserve duty - Military term

expression:

• rear a tiger and court disaster - proverb

noun:

• cutlet and rice combo meal

noun / ~する noun:

• speak and write plainly (frankly); speak and write without reserve - four character idiom

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) ➜ 春秋戦国【しゅんじゅうせんごく】

noun / adjectival noun:

• peace and quiet; safe and peaceful; tranquil and uneventful - four character idiom