noun:

• chief actor in a kabuki play; star actor; leading actors of a troupe - four character idiom

noun:

• (a plain citizen) having no special rank or title; being a common citizen - four character idiom

noun:

• small pillars supporting the main pillars of a torii or a temple gate

expression:

• in a word; to put it briefly; to make a long story short ➜ 早く言えば

expression:

• in a word; to put it briefly; to make a long story short ➜ 手っ取り早く言えば

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to bring a complaint to a person (who is responsible for the problem)

expression:

• the autumn sun sets as quickly as a bucket dropping into a well - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• admission by a defendant of the justice of a plaintiff's case; cognovit

expression:

• too late (by a short time); just failed (by a small margin) - colloquialism Antonym: ギリギリセーフ ➜ ぎりぎり・アウト

noun:

• development of a text ➜ 起承転結
• the second line in a four-line Chinese poem

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to wheedle a person into doing something
• to carry a portable shrine

noun:

• coarse silk from the outside of a cocoon (a type of waste thread)

adverb / ~する noun:

• tensely; tightly; tautly - onomatopoeia
• erectly - onomatopoeia
• intuitively; instinctively; immediately - onomatopoeia
• with a burst; with a crack - onomatopoeia

noun:

• forming a chow by picking up a tile discarded by another player - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ 碰【ポン】

noun / ~する noun:

• forming a pung by picking up a tile discarded by another player - Mahjong term

prefix noun:

• some (at the start of a number in place of a digit)

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to pick up the thread of a story; to resume a conversation

noun:

• sticking chopsticks upright into a bowl of rice (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 一本箸

expression / noun:

• voice acting; appearing in a movie, TV show, etc. as a voice actor ➜ 出演

noun:

• (in a) rough Tokyo dialect; (having a) crude mouth; vulgar language; crude speaking ➜ べらんめえ口調【べらんめえくちょう】

noun:

• (in a) rough Tokyo dialect; (having a) crude mouth; vulgar language; crude speaking ➜ べらんめえ調

noun:

• dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris)
• snoop (i.e. a detective, a spy, etc.)
• loser; asshole - derogatory term

prefix noun:

• counterfeit; inferior; useless; wasteful

noun:

• advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; ideologue

suffix noun:

• -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system)

noun:

• socialist; communist; anarchist - archaism

adjectival noun / noun:

• an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable

expression:

• a burnt child dreads the fire; once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience - proverb