expression:

• small mercy (from some misfortune); silver lining of a dark cloud; consolation in sadness; blessing in disguise

noun:

• Protectorate General to Pacify the North; Tang-period Chinese office established in Inner Mongolia in 669 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General of the Western Regions; Han-period Chinese office established in East Turkestan in 60 BCE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• Protectorate General of the Central Asian Nomadic Lands; Chinese office established in Inner Mongolia in 650 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• SuperBall scooping; festival game in which one scoops up rubber bouncy balls floating in water ➜ 金魚掬い

expression / noun:

• fiscal cliff; sharp decline in the United States budget deficit that could have occurred beginning in 2013

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to give rein to (imagination); to lend wings to (fancy) ➜ 逞しくする
• to rage with all one's force; to be rampant

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

expression:

• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

godan ~る verb:

• to act like a know-it-all; to pretend you know everything; to fancy one is an authority ➜ 通がる

godan ~る verb:

• to act like a know-it-all; to pretend you know everything; to fancy one is an authority

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ 凡そ【およそ】
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; to turn to the sky and spit [literal] - idiom ➜ 天に唾する【てんにつばする】

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; to turn to the sky and spit [literal] - idiom

noun:

• ground; land; earth; soil - abbreviation
• the region in question; the local area
• skin
• texture; fabric; material; weave
• base; background
• one's true nature
• narrative (i.e. descriptive part of a story)
• real life; actuality
• captured territory (in the game of go)
• noh chorus ➜ 地謡
• accompaniment music (in Japanese dance)
• basic phrase (in Japanese music; usu. repetitive)
• base part (of multiple shamisens)

~と adverb:

• with a clink; with a flop - onomatopoeia
• suddenly; all of a sudden - onomatopoeia ➜ ぱったり

noun:

• fate; destiny
• connection; tie; bond; origin
• pretext; justification
• hetu and prataya (direct causes and indirect conditions, which underlie the actions of all things) - Buddhism term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to accidentally be visible (in a play, TV show, etc.)
• to be partly cut off (in a photo, video, etc.); to be partly in the frame

adjectival noun / adverb / noun:

• direct; in person; frankness; honesty; simplicity; cheerfulness; correctness; being straight
• night duty; shift (e.g. in a factory) ➜ 当直

expression:

• spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb

expression:

• mirror found in hell in Enma's chamber that allows people to see their good and bad deeds - Buddhism term ➜ 閻魔

noun:

• beginning character or characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu (esp. used in competitive karuta) ➜ 百人一首【ひゃくにんいっしゅ】

expression:

• spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb