noun / ~の noun:

• tone-deafness; amusia; having no ear for music

adjectival noun:

• tone-deaf; off-key

suffix:

• having no sense (of something); being hopeless (when it comes to something)

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

expression:

• he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day; sometimes you have to lose to win - proverb

noun:

• children's haircut having hair in the rear that reaches the nape of the neck - archaism

noun:

• appearance; look; countenance
• a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune ➜ 女難の相
• aspect - Linguistics term
• phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous) - Physics term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears

noun:

• safe tile; tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent - Mahjong term
• no-risk choice; easily handled person - idiom

noun:

• safe tile; tile that may be discarded without risking benefiting an opponent - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 安全牌
• no-risk choice; easily handled person - abbreviation - idiom ➜ 安全牌

expression / adjective:

• adult-cute; grown-up but girlish; fashion style of adult women characterized by makeup and clothing that subtly emphasizes cuteness

noun / ~する noun:

• unwinding of funds transfer obligations; requesting a bank to return money that was transferred (e.g in error or in excess)

noun:

• manner of speaking
• verbal argument
• objection; protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee)
• rumor; rumour

noun:

• resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

noun / expression:

• trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick

noun:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs)

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt [literal] - four character idiom

expression:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs) ➜ 犬猿

noun:

• karaoke box; club with individual rooms that can be rented with karaoke machines

noun:

• lacquering technique that uses a coloured-lacquer undercoating and a transparent-lacquer topcoat

noun:

• problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times

noun:

• arrow with feathers that curve to the right (the second of two arrows to be fired) ➜ 甲矢

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to think hard about (something that one doesn't know much of); to rack one's brain

expression / ~の noun:

• (not) so much; (not) that much - usu. before a verb in negative form

expression / adverb:

• in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

expression / adjective:

• unable to get along; unable to cooperate; unable to hit it off; not seeing eye to eye - idiom