noun:

• being generous, benevolent and magnanimous in disposition - four character idiom

noun:

• in and around the city of Kyoto - four character idiom

noun:

• drinking, gambling, and buying women in prostitution

noun:

• township and village enterprises (in China); TVE

noun:

• vajra (mystical weapon in Hinduism and Buddhism)

noun:

• sutra-reading time (in morning and evening) - obscure term

noun:

• beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin ➜ どて焼き【どてやき】

noun:

• woman interested in Buddhism and Buddhist images

noun:

• congagement; containment and engagement (in foreign affairs) - obscure term

noun:

• township and village enterprises (in China); TVE - abbreviation ➜ 郷鎮企業

conjunction / particle:

• and yet; though; when; in spite of ➜ くせに

noun:

• barker; tout; hawker; someone who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events, shops, bars, and such, by exhorting passing public

~する noun:

• calling out to potential customers

noun:

• being attracted by physical looks only; person who is only interested in looks

expression / noun:

• humiliation of defeat in battle; past humiliation by others; shame of an unendurable disgrace - proverb ➜ 会稽の恥を雪ぐ【かいけいのはじをすすぐ】

noun:

• writing characters in the air with one's behind (by moving one's hips) - colloquialism

noun:

• getting frightened even by a slight noise; hearing the enemy in every leaf that rustles; being afraid of one's own shadow - four character idiom

noun:

• good and bad fortune, and weal and woe - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• propriety; right and wrong; advisability; possibility
• pro and con; ayes and noes

noun:

• sun and moon
• time; days and months; years
• Sunday and Monday ［にちげつ］

noun:

• wisdom and magnanimity; witty intelligence and large-mindedness
• measurement; volume and weight

noun:

• prosperity and decay; rise and fall; ebb and flow; vicissitudes (of fortune) - four character idiom

expression:

• burying one's head in the sand (while leaving other parts of one's body exposed); exposing one's weak point while attempting to protect oneself; hiding one's head without hiding one's bottom [literal] - idiom

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• aggregation of names, addresses, etc.
• collation of accounts held by the same person (by financial institutions)

noun:

• cloud; look of the sky; movement of clouds
• kabuki accessory representing a cloud
• type of strange mist appearing in the sky, used for divination