noun:

• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

noun:

• enjoying food, drink and entertainment in a small room ➜ 四畳半【よじょうはん】

noun:

• fine wines and prized delicacies - four character idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to be tinged red; to be reddish - obscure term ➜ 赤味がかる

noun:

• Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

noun:

• red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa) - obscure term ➜ 似我蜂

noun:

• red zone

noun:

• approval and disapproval

noun:

• soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin - abbreviation ➜ 味付け玉子【あじつけたまご】

noun:

• usu. the drop between collar and bottom hem on kimono, yukata, etc.

expression:

• laughing embarrasedly and sticking out one's tongue - onomatopoeia - slang ➜ てへへ・ぺろりと

noun:

• snow and rain
• snowfall - archaism

noun:

• soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish) - polite language - Food term ➜ 雑煮【ぞうに】

noun:

• ebb and flow

noun:

• rice and money; money to purchase rice

noun / adjectival noun:

• complex and mysterious (bizarre); complicated and inscrutable - four character idiom

noun:

• skull and crossbones (pirate flag); Jolly Roger

noun:

• unselfish and impartial (disinterested) - four character idiom

noun:

• any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ
• Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha
• Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius
• Yao, Shun and Yu
• Yu, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius

noun:

• red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)

noun:

• introduction, development, turn and conclusion (quadripartite structure of certain Chinese poetry) - four character idiom
• story composition and development

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• bursting with youth and energy (esp. young woman); vivaciously young; spunky; energetic - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• (fish) jumping around energetically (e.g. when caught in a net) - onomatopoeia

~の noun:

• bursting (e.g. seams); tight - onomatopoeia

~と adverb:

• splattering (e.g. cooking oil) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• treaty of peace and amity; peace treaty

noun:

• cooked and dry packed rice (modern version of hoshii rice); processed quick-cooking rice ➜ 糒

noun / ~する noun:

• quiet and secluded life; quiet retreat; idle life