noun:

• double meaning

noun:

• sememe; semanteme; irreducible unit of meaning - Linguistics term

noun:

• kanji character with a concrete meaning - e.g. 犬, 草, etc.

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

expression:

• The world is covered in darkness; All is plunged into darkness - four character idiom

expression:

• there is no place like home; home is sweet to an exile - proverb

expression:

• though the woman is weak, the mother is strong - proverb

noun:

• a gentle spirit is more important than looks; handsome is as handsome does

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

expression:

• the eye is blind if the mind is absent - proverb

noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame [literal] - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame ➜ 閉月羞花・沈魚落雁

noun:

• social organisation for people originating from the same town, village, or island who live in an urban center far from home (predominantly used by people from Okinawa)

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

expression / ichidan verb:

• to learn the ropes; to get the knack

ichidan verb / transitive / expression:

• to acquire a trade; to learn a vocation

noun:

• expression

noun:

• expression

noun:

• wooden horse; rocking horse
• vaulting horse; horse used in gymnastics ➜ 跳馬
• the horse (ancient torture device that one was forced to straddle with rocks hanging from the feet)

noun:

• kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical - e.g. 道, 起

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn inside out; to turn the other way; to turn (something) over ➜ 裏返す
• to look at it from another perspective - usu. as 裏を返せば
• to visit the same prostitute or geisha for a second time

noun:

• applying an extended meaning to a kanji

noun / ~の noun:

• literal meaning (of a word, etc.) ➜ 字義

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up the meaning (of a word)