noun:

• youthful crowd; crowd of young people coming into their own - four character idiom

noun:

• rich and poor, high and low; people of all ranks - four character idiom

noun:

• gang of hoodlums (hooligans); bad company; companion in gang activities - four character idiom

noun:

• grasping the (main) point; seizing the essence (of a matter) - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to declaim; to string together all sorts of flowery words

noun:

• the practice of assigning one era name to one emperor - four character idiom

noun:

• Ramadan (9th month of Muslim calendar); fasting month - From Arabic

expression:

• in the early period (of something); at the beginning

noun / ~の noun:

• the Amazon river
• Amazon (woman of Greek mythology)

noun:

• style of garden that features a path around a pond - obscure term

noun:

• Itayose method; method of trading employed on Japanese exchanges - often 板寄せ方式

noun:

• call number (e.g. of a book in a library)

noun:

• Vairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

expression:

• all at once (usu. of payment); at one go - colloquialism

adjectival noun:

• ugly and creepy (combination of the words busaiku and kimoi) - slang ➜ キモい

expression:

• (at the) last moment; (in the) nick of time

noun:

• even (of a trade); no advantage and no disadvantage

adverb / ~と adverb:

• ding; chime (sound of a bell or a small gong) - onomatopoeia

expression:

• getting nowhere; becoming uncontrollable; getting out of hand; remaining unsatisfied

adverb / ~する noun:

• sound of two hard thin objects rubbing together; crunch crunch - onomatopoeia

noun:

• human chain (chain of people holding hands, usually in protest)

noun:

• palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae) ➜ 椰子【やし】

noun:

• appreciation of the yen against the (American) dollar

noun:

• depreciation of the yen against the (American) dollar

expression / suffix:

• no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen - after -masu stem of verb