noun:

• off and on manner; intermittent style; dragging on and on - often 五月雨式に - four character idiom ➜ 五月雨【さみだれ】

noun / adjectival noun:

• being busy with many things; extreme busyness due to pressure of business - often used humorously - four character idiom

noun:

• the principle (philosophy) of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not" - four character idiom

noun:

• each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way - four character idiom

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north - four character idiom

noun:

• Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• demoralization; collapse of morale; one's morale being shaken - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• urban villain; street hoodlum - four character idiom

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• the seven treasures and many other precious things; all the treasures in the world - 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:

• personnel changes through favoritism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• examine (investigate into) a person's history - four character idiom

noun:

• personal information form; dossier on an individual - four character idiom

noun:

• one's philosophy of life - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• what has been (orally) handed down from generation to generation; legend; folk tale - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• one's days and nights being reversed - four character idiom

noun:

• being bold; daring; plucky; having a lot of guts; being quite nerveless - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• two steps forward, one step back - four character idiom

noun:

• comedian who plays a lover's part; man who is both handsome and fun - halfway between 二枚目 and 三枚目 - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• multilayered - four character idiom

noun:

• the large number of bridges over canals and rivers in Naniwa (present-day Osaka) - four character idiom

noun:

• the large number of temples in Kyoto - four character idiom

noun:

• the long night of spiritual darkness - four character idiom