noun / ~の noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son - four character idiom

expression:

• continued luck in the fortunes of war - four character idiom

noun:

• corruption of public morals; an offense against public morality - four character idiom

noun:

• taking delight in elegant pursuits; being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• complex and wide-ranging; labyrinthine - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• complex and multifarious - four character idiom

noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• tumultuous public discussion; noisy public criticism - four character idiom

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• making strenuous efforts; exerting oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• Dutch treat; going Dutch - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom

noun:

• few words; single phrase - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• conservatives and reformists being neck and neck; balanced conservative and progressive strengths - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dusky; somber light of a gathering dusk - four character idiom

noun:

• being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures; giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• being dissolute and unruly; ruining oneself by leading a fast life - four character idiom

noun:

• bumper crops; year of a full rice harvest - four character idiom

noun:

• having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• violent and cruel; tyrannical and atrocious - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• dripping ink marks; a work of calligraphy being written in bold and vivid strokes - four character idiom

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun:

• eternally unchanging - four character idiom

noun:

• advancing in the face of death; having a narrow escape from the jaw of death - four character idiom

noun:

• everything; all things; all affairs; all matters - four character idiom

expression:

• all things are in a state of flux; everything is constantly changing - four character idiom