noun:

• superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words - four character idiom

noun:

• superficial knowledge; half knowledge - four character idiom

noun:

• superficial (shortsighted) way of thinking; half-baked (foolish, ill-advised) idea - four character idiom

noun:

• superficial cleavage

adjectival noun / noun:

• superficial knowledge; half knowledge - four character idiom

noun:

• superficial velocity; superficial flow velocity - Engineering term

adjectival noun / noun:

• superficial knowledge; superficiality

expression:

• early, superficial indications of spring (haiku term) ➜ 季語【きご】

noun:

• shallow view; superficial idea

noun / adjectival noun:

• shallow and unwise; superficial and thoughtless - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start with the looks; to start (at the wrong end) by focusing on the superficial

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:

• imperfect (superficial) knowledge

noun:

• tip of one's hand
• cheap trick; superficial wit; superficial cleverness

~の noun:

• lukewarm; cheap; perfunctory; makeshift; shortsighted

noun:

• appearance of written words; impression given by written letters, characters, etc.
• literal meaning (of a piece of writing); superficial meaning
• face (of a printing type)