noun:

• postage not included; postage excluded

noun:

• something concealed; something not disclosed

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

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of ➜ こんな・そんな・どんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ あんな

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

expression / noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)

expression:

• not at all inferior to; compare favorably (with); being even better than; rivalling; surpassing

noun / suffix noun:

• nature (of a person or thing)
• that which does not change according to external influences - Buddhism term

noun:

• maple tree not yet turned red
• kasane color combination - green at front and russet behind ➜ 襲

noun:

• widow; divorced woman not remarried; unmarried woman ➜ 女やもめ【おんなやもめ】・鰥【やもめ】

noun:

• wind; gas; fart - usually 屁 is へ, and おなら is in kana
• something worthless; something not worth considering ［へ］

noun:

• not yet implemented plan; early plan - From English "desk plan"

adverb:

• not long after; before long

adjectival noun / noun:

• free and easy; open and natural; not fastidious - four character idiom

expression / suffix:

• no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen - after -masu stem of verb

~の noun / noun:

• beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions

noun:

• not using makeup to allow one's skin to heal

expression / suffix:

• no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen - after -masu stem of verb ➜ っこない

noun / ~の noun:

• the best in the land; the best of its kind in the country; par excellence in the whole country - four character idiom

noun:

• perpetual change caused by karma; vicissitudes of life; that which is made - Buddhism term

noun:

• life-and-death matter; an emergency or crisis where survival is threatened - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• recklessness; rashness; foolhardiness; temerity; without watching where one is going [literal]

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• divergent opinions abound; opinion is divided; there are many rumors afloat - four character idiom

noun:

• non-fruit-bearing flower
• something that is flashy with no content