noun:

• aggressive negotiations; hard-line bargaining - four character idiom

noun:

• existence (as we perceive it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning - obscure term - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• self-serving logic - four character idiom

noun:

• woman of mature beauty - four character idiom

noun:

• area where a string of nuclear power plants are located - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• effecting de facto constitutional changes through creative interpretation of the existing constitution; reinterpretation of the constitution - four character idiom

expression:

• things that do not exist; fur on turtles, horns on rabbits [literal] - four character idiom - idiom

expression:

• things that do not exist; horns on rabbits, fur on turtles [literal] - idiom - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• there are no cowardly soldiers under a superior general - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• assiduously; with unremitting zeal - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• quietly and assiduously - four character idiom

noun:

• the pain of meeting people one dislikes - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• superficially cordial but actually uninterested - four character idiom

noun:

• fortune-telling - four character idiom

expression:

• unlikely event; rare occurrence - idiom - four character idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 盲亀の浮木

expression:

• When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off - from 狡兎死して良狗烹らる - four character idiom ➜ 狡兎死して走狗烹らる

noun:

• facing a wall for nine years in meditation (by Bodhidharma at Shaolin Temple) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• with a gentle face and a nice word - four character idiom

noun:

• bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds - often local bureaucrats entertaining central bureaucrats - four character idiom ➜ 接待

expression:

• the poetic feeling of a late spring scene (with flowers scattering and birds chirping) - obscure term - four character idiom

noun:

• hard line; hard-line; tough line; hawkish line - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• backdoor admission to a school; backdoor entry to a school; buying one's way into school; bribing one's way into a school - four character idiom

noun:

• Respectfully yours - formula at the end of a letter - honorific language - four character idiom

noun:

• holding the proper state of mindfulness at the moment of death - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun / expression:

• five races under one union; founding principle of the Republic of China (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans) - four character idiom
• harmony of the five races; official policy of Manchukuo (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese) ［五族協和］ - four character idiom