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

noun:

• children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards ➜ 押しくらまんじゅう

noun:

• central government ministries and agencies

noun:

• acupuncturist and practitioner of moxibustion

noun:

• electoral system comprised of single-seat constituencies and proportionally represented multiple-seat constituencies

noun:

• three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones (Confucius) - archaism Antonym: 三損友 ➜ 益者三友

noun / ~する noun:

• multiplication and division

noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey ➜ 煙管乗車

expression / godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to walk heavily and clumsily; to lumber

noun:

• dust and ash

noun / ~する noun:

• dividing and advancing

expression:

• rear a tiger and court disaster - proverb

noun:

• face and eyes; look; expression; features

noun:

• quality and defects liability

noun / adjectival noun:

• cruel and heartless; merciless; implacable; cold-blooded - four character idiom

noun:

• seller and buyer; vendor and purchaser

noun / ~する noun:

• short and fat; pudgy; stocky

noun:

• Bon and year-end festivals

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom