noun:

• four concealed triplets (yakuman); four concealed three-of-a-kinds - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 暗刻【アンコー】・役満

noun / ~の noun:

• skeleton; skeletal structure; build; frame; physique
• framework

noun:

• any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ
• Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha
• Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius
• Yao, Shun and Yu
• Yu, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius

noun:

• banners of thanks for the full house (in sumo tournaments, soccer matches, concerts, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• city centre (center) (esp. capital city); urban centre; heart of city a metropolis

noun:

• three countries
• Japan, China & India; Japan, Korea & China; all the world
• Three Kingdoms (in China, 220-280) ➜ 魏【ぎ】・蜀【しょく】・呉【ご】
• Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE - 668 CE) ➜ 新羅【しらぎ】・百済【くだら】・高句麗【こうくり】

expression:

• the child is father to the man; the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100 [literal]

noun:

• overhang
• poster; placard; notice ➜ 貼り出し
• extra third or fourth wrestler of certain rank - Sumo term

noun / ~の noun:

• inner thoughts; real intention; inmost heart; one's mind

adverbial noun:

• at heart; deep down; on the inside

noun:

• inner center (centre) - Mathematics term ➜ 外心【がいしん】

adverb / ~と adverb:

• giving two or three light tugs (or pushes) - onomatopoeia
• worrying about; moping; brooding over; fretting - archaism - onomatopoeia
• suddenly angry; feeling a surge of anger - archaism - onomatopoeia

noun:

• muteness; speech impairment
• mute; deaf-mute ［おし・おうし］ - sensitive

noun:

• ordinary verse of a renga (i.e. not the first three verses or the last verse)

noun / suffix noun:

• work (e.g. of art); production ➜ 作品

noun:

• harvest; cultivation; farming; crop; yield
• technique

adjectival noun / noun:

• inhuman; immoral; unreasonable; outrageous; wicked - archaism ➜ 無道

noun:

• (the crime of) barbarity (such as killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse) ➜ 八虐

noun:

• valvular heart disease; heart valve disease - Medicine term

noun:

• ischemic heart disease; ischaemic heart disease

noun:

• 4 corner bales on the outer rim of the sumo ring - Sumo term

noun:

• fresco (technique of blending wet plaster with water based paint) - usu. フレスコ - From Italian or Spanish
• flask - usu. フラスコ - From Portuguese "frasco"

noun:

• Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; Chinese plum
• lowest (of a three-tier ranking system) ➜ 竹【たけ】・松【まつ】

noun:

• banishment (to a somewhat distant province); middle-degree punishment of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• ozeki ranked wrestler unable to live up to the expectations of his rank - Sumo term

expression:

• even the patience of a saint eventually runs out; (if you touch) the Buddha's face three times (he will get annoyed) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• three-three-seven rhythmic clapping pattern; 3-3-7 beat

adverb / ~と adverb:

• choked up (with emotion); heart-wringing; momentary tightening of one's chest caused by powerful feelings (e.g. parting with a loved one) - esp. 胸がきゅん（と）なる - onomatopoeia

noun:

• steadfastness; firmness in one's conviction; having a heart that does not change as easily as a stone rolls about - four character idiom