noun:

• between-season wear; spring and autumn clothing; spring and fall clothing - also written as 間 - abbreviation ➜ 合い服

suffix:

• together
• condition; situation; state
• -ish

adjectival noun:

• worst; poor and boring; uncool

noun:

• head-to-head training; drill consisting of pushing and being pushed; battering practice - Sumo term

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out
• to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls

noun:

• Islamic State; IS; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; ISIS; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; ISIL

expression / ~の noun:

• violent (fight); slashing and striking; hand-to-hand

ichidan verb:

• to keep talking; to go on and on; to talk non-stop

~と adverb / adverb:

• dangling heavily; swaying to and fro; swinging - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶらぶら

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• being majestic; with great pomp and circumstance; with an imposing air - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• ranging over or scouting out a territory; searching far and wide (for); reading extensively

expression:

• with great vigour; in leaps and bounds; with the force of surging waves [literal]

expression:

• firm; flexible and hard to break; persevering ➜ 腰の強い

noun:

• happy-go-lucky fellow; an easygoing and indifferent person; a pococurante - four character idiom

noun:

• married couple; spouses; husband and wife; couple; pair

prefix noun:

• his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman) ［めおと］ ➜ 夫婦茶碗

expression:

• now rejoicing, now worrying; swinging from joy to sorrow; glad and sad by turns; alternating hope and fear; unable to put one's mind at ease - four character idiom

expression:

• all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too [literal] - proverb

expression / noun:

• by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise

noun:

• siblings; brothers and sisters ➜ ご兄弟
• brothers
• siblings-in-law; brothers-in-law; sisters-in-law
• mate; friend - familiar language - male language

particle:

• et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
• or something - after an approximate quote or vague suggestion
• the likes of - lessening the significance or value of the previous word

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• identical; same; one and the same; equal
• fair; equal treatment; without discrimination

adverb / conjunction:

• furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more

noun:

• Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures
• Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

noun:

• haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

noun / ~の noun:

• sizes (various); large and small
• daisho (matched pair of long and short swords)
• large and small drums
• long months and short months

noun:

• sic bo (Macau dice game); tai sai; dai siu; big and small