noun:

• one red flower standing out in a sea of green vegetation; one item of quality standing out among many; one woman among many men - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• fulfilment of a vow; one's earnest prayer being answered - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• saying whatever one feels; speaking at random; making careless remarks; rambling talk - four character idiom

noun:

• (an ordinary citizen) having no special rank or title - four character idiom

noun:

• abandoning artifice and just being oneself; doing nothing and taking things as they come - four character idiom
• unconditioned nature; unconditioned spontaneity - Buddhism term

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• ignorant and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate person - sensitive - four character idiom

noun:

• sound health - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• self-contradiction - four character idiom

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• dustless desk by a well-lit window; well-lit and clean study conducive to learning - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• upbeat and freehearted; cheerful and magnanimous - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• great nuisance; extremely annoying; quite embarrassing - four character idiom

noun:

• pretending to obey someone to his face but badmouthing him behind his back - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• undergoing a complete change in appearance; changing something out of all recognition; a rise in one's reputation - four character idiom

noun:

• face; honor; reputation - four character idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• with evident joy of having lived up to one's reputation; having an effect of bolstering one's reputation - four character idiom

expression:

• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning; Mencius' mother, three moves [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 孟母三遷の教え【もうぼさんせんのおしえ】

noun:

• there being no use in arguing (about it); being stone-deaf to someone's appeals - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• open door policy - four character idiom

noun:

• (a house) looking deserted with few visitors; sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• seen in the dark or at a distance; (a woman) looking prettier when seen in the dark or at a distance - four character idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• burning with ambition; highly ambitious - four character idiom