noun:

• policy of keeping the people ignorant and easily subjugated

noun:

• neglecting the duties of an office while taking pay - four character idiom

noun:

• commentary on the Book of Odes by Zheng Xuan

noun:

• cleaning dirt or sand out of the digestive system

noun:

• Mothers; Market of the High-growth and Emerging Stocks

noun:

• blind date party, with the object of sex - slang

noun / adjectival noun:

• varying the tempo or speed (of something) at will - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• rise and fall; frequent fluctuations (of the market price) - four character idiom

noun:

• having something of the old-time samurai about one - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• chiefly on the basis of someone's personal character - four character idiom

noun:

• the principle of pleasing everyone; make-everybody-happy policy - four character idiom

noun:

• according to circumstances; dependent on the state of things - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become the subject of rumours or conversations

noun:

• any fish of family Merlucciidae (which includes the hakes) - From Spanish "merluza"

noun:

• Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 星宿・二十八宿・朱雀【すざく】

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• Singapore

noun:

• (Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People ➜ 三民主義

noun:

• member states of the former Soviet bloc

noun:

• alignment with the Western powers of America and Europe

noun:

• hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body) ➜ 半身不随

noun:

• Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)

noun:

• mass retirement (esp. that of the Japanese baby boomers)

noun:

• Ixeris dentata (species of the daisy family)

noun:

• the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China - Buddhism term

noun:

• vestibular bulb (aggregation of erectile tissue within the clitoris)

noun:

• Gelaohui (secret Chinese society of the late Xing dynasty) ➜ 会党