noun:

• having the face of a devil and the heart of Buddha; having a stern face but a tender heart - four character idiom

expression:

• family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• boss; leader; head
• difficult enemy in a video game, usu. found at the end of a level or game

noun:

• chief; head (of an office, of a laboratory)

expression:

• availing myself of your kind offer; taking you at your word

noun:

• God's word; word of God ［みことば］

noun:

• piece of wood (cut from a larger piece); chip of wood; block of wood

noun / ~する noun:

• tilting (of a geological block)

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning of the moon; phase of the moon - Astronomy term ➜ 盈虧
• rising and falling (of fortune)

noun / ~の noun:

• head; chief

noun:

• chairman; governor; president ［主席］
• top student; head of the class ［首席］
• top seat; first desk (in orchestra)

noun:

• dish of simmered salmon head, soybeans, vegetables, and leftovers (popular in Tochigi Prefecture and surrounds) ➜ 酢憤り

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

noun:

• the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

noun:

• commander-in-chief; leader; head of a group of companies

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• reverse movement; retrogression; going backwards; moving in the wrong direction; running counter to (e.g. the laws of nature); running against (e.g. the tide of the times) Antonym: 順行
• retrogradation; retrogression - Astronomy term

noun:

• unification of the written and spoken forms of a language - four character idiom

noun:

• fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

noun:

• Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝【さんぼう】
• dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis) - usually written using kana alone
• roller (any bird of family Coraciidae) - usually written using kana alone
• Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops) ➜ 声の仏法僧

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to linger (faint light of twilight); to remain lit in the lingering twilight ➜ 明け残る

noun:

• the three realms of existence - Buddhism term ➜ 欲界・色界・無色界
• the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三千大千世界
• past, present and future existences - Buddhism term ➜ 三世【さんぜ】

suffix:

• far-off ...; distant ...

noun:

• joined block construction of a statue

noun:

• protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story)
• head of household

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home)
• to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight
• to let pass; to pass up (an opportunity etc.); to let a pitch go by (baseball); to watch a batted ball go into the stands
• to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.); to postpone
• to have someone related or close to you die; to bury someone
• to take care of somebody until he dies
• to wait and see; to continue (e.g. in legal contexts)

noun:

• (seat at) the head of the table; seat of honour (honor) - colloquialism

noun:

• the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells - four character idiom