noun:

• salvation by faith in Amitabha - four character idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 阿弥陀
• relying upon others for attaining one's own objective - four character idiom

noun:

• old maid (card game)
• living without one's mother-in-law - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• change in mentality; changing one's way of thinking; adjusting psychologically to shifting circumstances - four character idiom

suffix:

• route; road
• distance travelled in a day
• one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s) ➜ 七十路

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term ➜ シリウス

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - Astronomy term ➜ シリウス

noun:

• Sirius (star in the constellation Canis Major); Alpha Canis Majoris; the Dog Star - obscure term - Astronomy term ➜ 天狼星・シリウス

adverb / ~する noun:

• (doing) various things; (doing) this and that

adverb:

• being apt to; being prone to; tending to
• at any rate; anyhow; anyway

~の noun:

• all sorts of (negative things); various

noun:

• things that do not exist; rabbit horns [literal] ［兎角］ - idiom - Buddhism term ➜ 亀毛兎角

interjection:

• thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal
• thank you (for displaying lovey-dovey behaviour) - humorous term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

expression:

• the eyes are the windows to the soul; the eye is the lamp of the body; the eyes are the mirror of the heart [literal] - proverb

noun:

• poking one's food around using one's chopsticks; playing with one's food with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

expression:

• first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning
• Introduction; Preface - as section heading of a book, etc. - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Democratic Party (formed in 2016 from the merger of the DPJ and Ishin) ➜ 民主党【みんしゅとう】・維新の党【いしんのとう】
• Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan)

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• future years; in (one's) later years

noun:

• kink in one's neck; sprained neck ➜ 寝違い

noun:

• empty air; sky
• shunyata; emptiness; the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon - Buddhism term
• air force - abbreviation ➜ 空軍

noun / adjectival noun:

• fruitlessness; meaninglessness
• void (one of the five elements) ➜ 五大

~の noun:

• empty (e.g. set) - Mathematics term

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

noun:

• palace kitchen in which final preparations to the imperial family's meals (e.g. reheating) were made (Heian period)
• kitchen (in a noble's manor)

noun:

• fixed game; bid-rigging; put-up job; contest in which the victor is practically known beforehand (e.g. due to unfair conditions or an obvious difference in strength) - from 出来合いのレース - abbreviation

noun / ~の noun:

• pedagogy; pedagogics; education (esp. in the context of the study of education)

noun:

• avenue in the capital; busy main street of the capital; main thoroughfare

noun:

• benefits gained in this world through observance of the Buddhist teachings; happiness gained in this world through observance of the Buddhist teachings - four character idiom - Buddhism term