noun:

• input and output; input-output; IO - IT term

adverb / noun:

• day and night; nightfall

noun:

• beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin

noun:

• China and Korea

noun:

• quality and shape; birth or appearance

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells - four character idiom

noun:

• emotion and reason; logic and emotion; justice and compassion (criminal justice context)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back - onomatopoeia
• action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head - onomatopoeia

noun:

• bunt and run - Baseball term

noun:

• memorandum of agreement on general trade terms and conditions

noun / ~する noun:

• looking up and down; actions; being obliging

noun:

• sweet-and-sour pork

expression:

• better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know - proverb

noun:

• diligence and indolence; attendance

noun:

• heaven and earth

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to forgive and forget; to let bygones be bygones; to sweep under the carpet; to wipe the slate clean

noun:

• shelf on which tea and tea implements are kept

noun:

• boiled rice mixed with vegetables and meat or fish - Kansai dialect - Food term ➜ 加薬御飯

noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

noun:

• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

noun / adjectival noun:

• cruel and inhuman; brutal; merciless - four character idiom

noun:

• fried mochi covered in soy sauce and wrapped in nori - Food term ➜ 磯辺【いそべ】

noun:

• rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• commonplace and stale; humdrum and hackneyed - four character idiom