noun / adjectival noun:

• being sick and tired (of); being fed up (with); having one's fill (of) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• ex-officio questioning; police questioning (of a suspicious person); a police checkup - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• neglect (dereliction) of duty; negligence - four character idiom

noun:

• go-slow tactics (of Japanese railway workers) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• tour round the country (Japan) (visiting from province to province) - four character idiom

noun:

• wayward (irresponsible) criticisms of political matters by private citizens - four character idiom

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• knowing how to get on in the world; knowing the secret of success in life - four character idiom

noun:

• one's history of love affairs with women - four character idiom

noun:

• domestic service; working as a housemaid; domestic help; domestic helper - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• sensibilities (feelings, way of thinking) of the common people; popular sentiment - four character idiom

noun:

• being excused from various levies and taxes during the age of militarist government - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• salvation by one's own efforts; self-reliance - four character idiom

noun:

• amateurish work - four character idiom

noun:

• layperson's judgment (opinion) - four character idiom

noun:

• dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest while the paddies are still covered with snow - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• (a work of art being) sublime; transcendent - archaism - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• being totally upset (by); being completely nonplused (by); being mortified (at); feeling aggrieved (at); finding (it) highly regrettable - four character idiom

noun:

• argument as to (about) the authenticity (of...) - four character idiom

noun:

• humanity, justice, loyalty, and filial piety - four character idiom

noun:

• humanity and justice; benevolence and righteousness - four character idiom

noun:

• dubious; doubtful; of unknown authenticity - four character idiom

noun:

• inscrutable stratagem; ingenious scheme - four character idiom

noun:

• trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles - four character idiom

noun:

• hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world - four character idiom