expression / adjective:

• conventional and uninteresting; stereotypical and boring; commonplace
• unsociable; unfriendly; cold; indifferent

adjectival noun / noun:

• quiet and secluded

noun:

• ceremony where the Emperor would inspect the records of attendance and absence of officials - archaism

noun:

• catching someone's attention by winking and tugging at their sleeve

noun:

• acid and alkali

expression / noun:

• sacrament of penance and reconciliation - obsolete term ➜ ゆるしの秘跡

noun:

• ice and snow

noun:

• serve and volley

noun / ~する noun:

• invading and attacking

noun:

• rice seasoned and cooked with various ingredients

noun:

• food and alcohol offering to the gods

noun:

• pithy or short and witty remark; wisecrack

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 迷い箸

noun:

• Japan and Mexico

noun:

• mixed fertilizer, e.g. made from compost and burned soil

noun / adjectival noun:

• violent and cruel; tyrannical and atrocious - four character idiom

noun:

• counties and prefectures

expression:

• anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z

noun:

• high and low; (people of) all ranks and classes - four character idiom

noun:

• rising diagonally up and to the right
• growing; expanding; soaring

noun:

• in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and the index and middle fingers ➜ 単鉤法

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning of the moon; phase of the moon - Astronomy term ➜ 盈虧
• rising and falling (of fortune)

godan ~す verb:

• to dig up and expose a criminal matter

noun:

• Thousand and One Nights

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom