ichidan verb:

• to fly; to flutter
• to win over; to win one's heart; to subdue

noun:

• three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to digress; to stray from the subject
• to miss the target; to fly wide of the mark

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off

noun / ~の noun:

• bricks and clicks; brick and click; business with both physical and online presence ➜ クリックアンドモルタル

expression:

• the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho) - four character idiom

noun:

• extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame (as part of a pivot hinge) ➜ 枢【くるる】

expression:

• having completely different natures and being incompatible with each other; like oil and water; ice and (charcoal) fire cannot coexist [literal] - proverb ➜ 相容れない【あいいれない】

noun:

• the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays - four character idiom

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

expression:

• from right to left; in one ear and out the other
• nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado

noun:

• painting of flowers and birds; bird-and-flower genre in Chinese and Japanese painting

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns - four character idiom

noun:

• semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light

noun / ~する noun:

• conservatives and reformists being neck and neck; balanced conservative and progressive strengths - four character idiom

noun:

• heaven and earth; the universe; nature; top and bottom; realm; sphere; world
• top and bottom ［てんち］
• gods of heaven and earth ［あめつち］

noun:

• superior talent and strategic wisdom; outstanding abilities and a talent for developing and implementing grand strategies - four character idiom

noun:

• Chinese and Japanese poetry and instrumental music; poetry and music; literature and music - four character idiom

noun:

• in name and in reality; nominally and virtually; form and contents

noun:

• merits and demerits; good points and bad points; strengths and weaknesses

noun:

• attaching and detaching; putting on and removing; installing and removing ➜ 着脱
• desorption Antonym: 吸着【きゅうちゃく】

noun:

• Om; Aun; syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma - From Sanskrit
• inspiration and expiration; respiration; alpha and omega

noun:

• messenger
• police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods) - abbreviation ➜ 検非違使
• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to spell
• to write; to compose; to frame
• to bind (e.g. documents); to patch; to sew together; to stitch together

noun / ~の noun:

• east and west
• Orient and Occident; East and West

expression:

• Ladies and Gentlemen!; Your attention, please!; roll-up, roll-up ［とうざい］ - abbreviation ➜ 東西東西