noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

noun / ~する noun:

• being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom

ichidan verb:

• to be used to eating; to become used to eating; to be accustomed to eating; to acquire a taste for

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together
• to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• addition of points; scoring
• addition of marks and symbols to a classical Chinese text to aid reading in Japanese

noun / adjectival noun:

• mincing; chopping finely

adjectival noun / noun:

• short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly)
• gradual; bit by bit; little by little

expression:

• heaven's vengeance is slow but sure; heaven's net is wide and coarse, yet nothing slips through - four character idiom

noun:

• Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s ➜ 財閥

noun:

• karaori; Chinese weave; cloth decorated with birds and flowers in silk
• noh theater costume made with karaori weave

noun:

• his-and-her watches; pair watches; couple watch set

expression:

• everybody doing well (e.g. purchaser, buyer and society); three-way satisfaction; all three parties doing well

~と adverb / adverb / ~の noun / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• with a glitter; with a sparkle - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• brand new; shiny and new - onomatopoeia

noun:

• today and tomorrow; today or tomorrow; in a day or two - four character idiom

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to be young; to be young and have a promising future

noun:

• valuing one's body and life; holding one's life dear - four character idiom

noun:

• rights and wrongs (of a case); relative merits (of a case)

noun:

• chocolatedip chromis (Chromis dimidiata); half-and-half chromis; twotone chromis

noun:

• being thin and bony; bony body - archaism
• bony old man; bony old woman - derogatory term - archaism

expression:

• just you wait; just wait and see; I'll show you

noun:

• crime for which one's three types of relatives will be punished; crime implicating one's relatives of all three types - obscure term ➜ 三族

noun:

• distinguished person - four character idiom
• thirteen orphans; winning hand containing one of each terminal and honor tile plus one extra copy of any of them - Mahjong term

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

noun:

• white vinegar; plum vinegar made without perilla ➜ ホワイトビネガー・梅酢【うめず】
• dressing consisting of a dashi-diluted mixture of vinegar, ground sesame, tofu, sugar and salt - Food term

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• Okinawan-style stewed pork cubes; boned pork rib meat, cut into 5 cm squares, stewed in awamori, soy, dashi broth, and sugar - Ryūkyū dialect - Food term