expression:

• Man's life vanishes like a dew; A person's life is as fleeting as a morning dew - four character idiom

noun:

• individual item (i.e. not part of a set); single article
• single item out of a set; one item from a set

noun / ~する noun:

• reading (the parts one is interested in); reading here and there; skimming through; browsing
• reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand

noun:

• speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener - honorific language

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to slacken; to loosen; to relax; to droop (e.g. loose or flabby skin); to sag (ceiling)
• to slack off (e.g. one's work, attention); to not put one's heart in

expression:

• rubbernecking; the thrill of looking at something scary or unpleasant and wanting to look at it all the more because it is scary or unpleasant

expression:

• a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it [literal] - proverb ➜ 井の中の蛙大海を知らず【いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず】・井蛙【せいあ】

noun:

• origin of a character
• composition of a Chinese character
• Chinese character from which a kana character is derived

noun:

• Islamic State; IS; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; ISIS; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; ISIL

noun:

• light that is said to be emitted from some hair or tuft in Buddha's forehead; ray of light from the tuft of white hair (between the eyebrows) - from 白毫相光 - abbreviation

expression / noun:

• formidable person; shrewd person; someone not to be taken lightly; person of no common order
• certain person (e.g. whose name cannot be disclosed); someone
• that sort of person; that kind of person - archaism

expression:

• words can lead to disaster; the tongue is the root of calamities; the more you open your mouth the more likely you are to put your foot in it - proverb

noun:

• soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish) ➜ 糠漬け【ぬかづけ】

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

noun / suffix noun:

• hole - also read めど for this sense ➜ 穴が開く
• deficit; shortage; missing person (in a team, meeting, etc.)
• vacancy; opening
• flaw
• profitable place (or item, etc.) not well known by others
• upset victory (with a large payoff)
• pit (of a theater) - slang ➜ 平土間
• hiding place - archaism
• underbelly (of society, etc.) - archaism

expression:

• the eyes are the windows to the soul; the eye is the lamp of the body; the eyes are the mirror of the heart [literal] - proverb

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age - abbreviation ➜ 数え年【かぞえどし】

adverb / ~する noun:

• (doing) various things; (doing) this and that

adverb:

• being apt to; being prone to; tending to
• at any rate; anyhow; anyway

~の noun:

• all sorts of (negative things); various

noun:

• things that do not exist; rabbit horns [literal] ［兎角］ - idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 亀毛兎角

noun:

• man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family

noun:

• law of the country where a person habitually resides or is a national; law applicable to a person or to a person's legal problems

expression:

• if you can't beat them; join them; if your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join their side than to fight them - proverb

noun:

• first of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mercury and north) ➜ 九星
• white patch on one foot of a horse; horse with such a patch
• surface (landscape) that is white all over; pure white

noun / prefix / suffix:

• medium; average; middle

noun:

• moderation
• middle school - abbreviation ➜ 中一・中学校
• China - abbreviation ➜ 中国
• volume two (of three) - abbreviation ➜ 中巻

suffix noun:

• during (a certain time when one did or is doing something); under (construction, etc.); while ➜ 話し中
• in; out of (e.g. three out of ten people) ➜ 中【じゅう】