noun:

• fleeting nature of riches and honour (honor) - four character idiom

expression:

• spiritual enlightenment only comes through personal experience - four character idiom - Buddhism term

expression:

• enlightenment leads to serenity - four character idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 四法印【しほういん】

noun / ~する noun:

• speaking with one voice; being unanimous - four character idiom ➜ 衆口

noun / ~する noun:

• decline of energy and vigour (vigor) - four character idiom

noun:

• practical search for the truth - four character idiom ➜ 実事

expression:

• one strong, many weak - four character idiom

expression:

• good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile - from Chinese 打開笑門福自來 - four character idiom ➜ 笑う門には福来る

expression:

• good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile - from Chinese 打開笑門福自來 - four character idiom ➜ 笑う門には福来る

noun:

• the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides [literal] - four character idiom ➜ 閉月羞花【へいげつしゅうか】・羞月閉花【しゅうげつへいか】・沈魚落雁【ちんぎょらくがん】

expression / noun:

• poor medical consultation leading to poor treatment - four character idiom

noun:

• gathering of excellent and capable people - four character idiom

noun:

• impregnable fortress; heavily guarded fort - four character idiom - obscure term

expression:

• do your best; give it your all - four character idiom

noun:

• right crop for the land; suitable crop for the land - four character idiom

noun:

• denied freedom (of how to live one's life); living like a caged bird [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• proper diet and Chinese herbal medicine share the same principles - four character idiom ➜ 医食同源

noun:

• steadfastness; firmness in one's conviction; having a heart that does not change as easily as a stone rolls about - four character idiom

noun:

• imitation that looks identical to the original; fake causing the original to lose value - four character idiom

expression:

• doing something on one's own without another's help - four character idiom

expression / noun:

• the strong overwhelming the weak; completing various things without difficulty; Mt. Tai crushes an egg [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• not getting along well with each other; being like water and oil - four character idiom

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• to think or act fairly without concern for one's own benefit - four character idiom

noun:

• one's fame or achievements being passed down eternally - four character idiom