noun:

• thirty-second of the sexagenary cycle ➜ 干支

noun:

• man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; herbivore [literal]

noun:

• woman who is obsessed with the education of her children

expression:

• an idle brain is the devil's shop - proverb

expression:

• what's done is done; that's water under the bridge; it is no use crying over spilt milk; spilt water won't go back into its tray [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• second marriage ➜ 再婚

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to observe the reasons and types of faults a person makes is to come to know whether they are virtuous or not

noun:

• second best

noun:

• second person pronoun - Linguistics term

noun:

• woman who is not traditionally beautiful yet somehow very attractive; woman with an aura of beauty - colloquialism

expression:

• bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited - proverb - Buddhism term

expression:

• Defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; Being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat (failure); Pride comes before a fall - four character idiom

noun:

• someone (e.g. a woman) who is out of one's league; something beyond one's means

expression:

• Is it so?; Really? - From French "N'est-ce pas?"

expression:

• most thrilling relationships for a man (another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife)

expression:

• forewarned is forearmed - proverb

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to leave as is; to ignore

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to do exactly what one is told to do; to be subservient; to be easily controlled

noun:

• bridegroom who is loved by his bride

expression:

• to endure what is unendurable is true endurance - proverb

expression:

• where might is master, justice is servant - proverb

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾城傾国

expression / adjective:

• is not; am not; are not - negation of である

suffix / pre-noun adjectival:

• the most . . . of all

noun:

• returning to normal after all is said and done