noun:

• behavioral principle; principle (value) governing one's conduct - four character idiom

noun:

• very shrewd in preparing a means of escape; being very good at escaping danger - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• being somewhat excited (agitated) - four character idiom

noun:

• rise and fall; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• bold and boorish - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• unparalleled for valor; unmatched for bravery - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• abnormally and inhumanly greedy; cruel and rapacious - four character idiom

adjectival noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• scene looking desolate and forlorn - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• enhancing national prestige; expanding national influence - four character idiom

noun:

• cosmopolitan (international) way of thinking; feeling for the wider world - four character idiom

noun:

• the international arena - four character idiom

noun:

• dynamics of international (foreign) relations - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• (a woman of) unparalleled beauty; (a woman's beauty being) matchless throughout the land - four character idiom

expression:

• It's absolute heaven; It's sheer bliss - four character idiom

noun:

• huge harvest (of the five grains); bumper crop; abundant crop - four character idiom

noun:

• poem of four lines, each of five (Chinese) characters - four character idiom

noun:

• poem of eight lines, each of five (Chinese) characters - four character idiom

noun:

• idiom derived from historical events or classical literature of China - four character idiom

expression:

• At age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven. (Confucius) - four character idiom

noun:

• extremely important or once in a lifetime (request); only once in one's lifetime - four character idiom

noun:

• feeling apprehensive; feeling (looking) lone and helpless; being down-and-out (ruined); helplessness of those in reduced circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• horse-headed and ox-headed demons in the Buddhist hell - four character idiom

noun:

• game (contest) held in the presence of a lord (daimyo, shogun) - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• with no physical defects; in perfectly good health; sound in wind and limb - four character idiom

noun:

• fixed idea; idee fixe; obsession; fixation - obscure term - four character idiom ➜ 固定観念