noun / ~する noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• billing and cooing; holding an intimate, long-winded conversation in whispers - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) - four character idiom ➜ 暑い・熱い

expression:

• three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones (Confucius) - four character idiom Antonym: 損者三友【そんしゃさんゆう】

noun:

• couple who only go through the motions of being husband and wife

noun:

• rescue and assistance (by public bodies) (e.g. in time of disaster)

noun:

• rice gruel containing vegetables, fish, etc., and seasoned with miso or soy sauce ➜ 雑炊

noun:

• solfa syllables (do, re, mi, fa, sol (soh), la and si (ti))

noun:

• being devoted; spending all one's time and energy on

interjection:

• no!; don't!; tsk!; used to scold small children and pets

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ ひっつき虫

noun:

• burr (prickly seeds or seedheads that stick to fur and clothes) ➜ くっつき虫

noun:

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

noun:

• user needs (generally in market research and IT)

noun:

• Semite (speaker of a semitic language, esp. Jews and Arabs)

noun:

• pasturing cattle in summer and feeding them indoors during winter; rotated grazing - four character idiom ➜ 夏山冬里方式

noun:

• happy-go-lucky fellow; easygoing and indifferent person; pococurante ➜ 極楽蜻蛉

expression / ichidan verb:

• to wear the mantle of (borrowed) authority and misuse it

noun:

• mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried ➜ 欠き餅

noun:

• body drop throw (sweeping the opponent's legs and throwing them forward) - Sumo term

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 六体

noun:

• Kinki region (incl. Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)

noun:

• Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• lofty; soaring; towering; precipitous; high and steep; sharply sticking out; jutting upward

noun:

• (logical) conversion (transposition of subject and predicate to form a new proposition)