noun:

• everyday life; daily life

noun:

• life; thread of life

noun:

• long life; age; life

noun:

• life imprisonment; life sentence

noun:

• simple life; frugal life - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• wedded life; married life

noun:

• life-jacket; life-vest ➜ ライフベスト

noun:

• life cycle; life history - Biology term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be delirious with fever; to have a feverish dream
• "to be crazy about something" [figurative]

expression / ichidan verb:

• to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet)
• to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution

expression:

• half a loaf is better than none; even a dead tree adds to the interest of a mountain [literal] - proverb

expression:

• like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)

expression:

• time flies; like watching a white horse run by through a gap in the wall (Zhuangzi) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• warbler flying from a valley to a tree - orig. meaning ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• finding success in life ➜ 鶯谷【おうこく】
• passing the palace examination ➜ 進士【しんし】

expression:

• like it or not; like or not like - usu. 〜...ない, etc. ➜ 好き嫌い【すききらい】

pronoun:

• I; me
• oneself ［われ・わ］
• you ［われ・わ］ - archaism

prefix:

• prefix indicating familiarity or contempt ［わ］ - also 和 - archaism

noun:

• salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt)
• cooking a fish inside a salt crust - abbreviation ➜ 塩釜焼き
• candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)

noun:

• stage prop in kabuki, consisting of a revolving panel with a life-size doll on each side
• rapid change in a situation, person's attitude, etc.

expression:

• Don't worry about it; There is nothing to fear; There is no need for anxiety; Everything is under control - four character idiom

noun:

• cart (esp. a food cart); stall; stand ➜ 屋台店
• festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; dancing platform ➜ 踊り屋台
• stage prop fashioned after a large building
• framework (of a house, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 屋台骨
• house (esp. a small and miserable house) - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give one's life (e.g. in battle); to devote one's life (e.g. to a cause)

expression:

• taking pride in one's humility is a form of bragging; he that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted; too much humility is pride - proverb

expression:

• there is no God!; it's a cruel world; there is no god or Buddha [literal] - idiom

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [literal] - proverb

expression:

• wretched is the lot of a government official; it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else - proverb