noun:

• half lotus position (meditation posture); sitting with one foot placed on the opposite thigh - abbreviation ➜ 半跏趺坐

noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye - idiom

noun:

• full flush; winning hand containing only tiles of one suit - Mahjong term - From Chinese
• homogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from one source)

noun / ~する noun:

• amicable resignation (retirement); resigning (retiring) from one's job of one's free will - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• self-willed; (doing or saying things) to suit one's own convenience - four character idiom

noun:

• status consciousness; perception of one's social status - four character idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to completely rethink; to pull one's self together

expression / adjective:

• not mince matters; not mince one's words ➜ 歯に衣着せない

noun:

• water flowing underneath; "one's true feelings" [figurative]
• kanji "water" radical at bottom (radical 85) - as in 泰

expression:

• ideally; if one were to wish for more

expression:

• cannot live even a minute without someone or something; meaning the world to one

noun:

• show-off underwear; wearing clothes that reveal part of one's pants

conjunction:

• setting aside; leaving to one side ➜ 扠置く

noun:

• age thirty; one's thirties

noun:

• good appetite and good bowel movements; enjoying one's food and having regular stools - four character idiom

noun:

• complete mastery of or over; at one's beck and call

noun:

• brothers; one's father's brothers

noun:

• all pungs; winning hand consisting of four pungs or kongs and one pair - Mahjong term - From Chinese

adjectival noun / noun:

• self-willed; (doing or saying things) to suit one's own convenience - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to relate to; to have one's feelings understood ➜ 心が通う

noun:

• age forty; one's forties

expression:

• a great distance does not detract from the feeling (relationship) of endearment; feeling as though a dear one faraway were living in one's close neighborhood - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be equal; to ostentatiously display that one is equal (to) - colloquialism ➜ ため

expression:

• having no choice but to carry on; having no choice but to go on; unable to change one's course of action; a man riding a tiger cannot disembark halfway through