noun:

• rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season - four character idiom

noun:

• frizz; short tufts springing up from hair surface here and there; kink; idiot hair

noun:

• simplicity and complexity; singular and plural; single and double; singles and doubles (in tennis)

conjunction:

• and; and then; thus; and now; and finally

suffix / particle:

• and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

noun:

• (relative) length
• advantages and disadvantages; pluses and minuses; strong and weak points; merits and demerits

expression:

• off the top of one's head; from thin air
• from memory

noun:

• banned from access (e.g. from a web forum, etc.) - colloquialism - abbreviation - IT term ➜ アクセス禁止

expression:

• banned from access (e.g. from a web forum, etc.) - IT term ➜ アク禁

noun:

• black-barred surgeonfish (Acanthurus polyzona, species of tang known only from Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands)

noun:

• sweet of egg yolks drawn into strands and boiled in sugar syrup (orig. from Portugal); angel hair; fios de ovos ➜ 南蛮菓子【なんばんがし】

noun:

• post-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly - slang - humorous term

noun:

• post-coital clarity; period after orgasm when a man is free from sexual desire and can think clearly - slang - humorous term

noun:

• half flush; winning hand containing one suit and honor tiles - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• heterogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from several sources)

noun:

• unloading a barge
• small pieces of fried tofu
• palanquin that carried guests to and from the red light district

noun:

• Noraism; women breaking with family and seeking individual freedom (from heroine in Ibsen's "Doll's House")

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind

noun:

• disaster hood; protective hood worn during earthquakes and other disasters (e.g. to protect from falling objects)

noun:

• calligraphy technique of holding the brush perpendicularly, lower arm raised, and elbow held away from the body ➜ 直筆【ちょくひつ】・懸腕

noun:

• way of holding a calligraphy brush, with elbow away from the body and arm in the air ➜ 懸腕直筆【けんわんちょくひつ】

noun:

• self and others; this and that; both sides; oneself and one's opponent; he and I

noun / ~の noun:

• revival from the brink of death; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation; revitalization - four character idiom

noun:

• hetuvidya (ancient Indian logic for determining right from wrong, truth from falsehood, etc.) ➜ 五明