noun:

• wind and string instruments; music

noun / ~する noun:

• enduring and accepting; submitting (to)

noun / ~する noun:

• addition and deletion; taking out and putting in; plugging and unplugging
• making do; getting by; managing ➜ 抜き差しならない・抜き差しならぬ

noun:

• exposed skin between top of knee-high socks and hemline of skirt - manga slang

~の noun:

• hard-boiled

godan ~う verb:

• to cut and sew

noun:

• seal style and ancient square style

noun:

• the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics - four character idiom

noun:

• feeling (looking) lone and helpless; helplessness of those in reduced circumstances - four character idiom

noun:

• 1962 trade agreement between Japan and China

noun:

• brown tinged with olive green and indigo

noun:

• wise and learned elder - obscure term

noun:

• body and mind as one; mind-body unity - four character idiom

noun:

• slash-and-burn agriculture

noun:

• incantation and prayer - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• feelings of dread and aversion - four character idiom

adverb:

• such and such - archaism

expression / adjective:

• hard to deal with; hard to handle; difficult; trying; intractable; incorrigible; refractory

noun:

• area of a soccer pitch between the penalty area and the centre ring (of tactical importance) - Sports term - From English "vital area"

noun:

• (tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep - four character idiom

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) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• up and down, left and right; top and bottom, left and right - four character idiom

noun:

• being wounded in mind and body - four character idiom

expression:

• Heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth - four character idiom

expression:

• being in doubt and unable to decide; hesitation and indecision - four character idiom