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

noun:

• hardships and privations - four character idiom

noun:

• nationals and foreigners

noun:

• the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather - four character idiom

noun:

• squares and circles; square and round shapes

noun:

• someone haughty and boastful at home but meek and reserved outside; being a lion at home and a mouse abroad

noun:

• ease and comfort

noun:

• English, Mathematics and Japanese

noun:

• sand and stone; pebble

noun:

• combined junior high and high school

noun:

• 34 (originally 33) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture ➜ 三十三所

noun:

• Minister of Posts and Telecommunications

noun / ~する noun:

• collecting together and buying; doing a big shop