noun:

• living in a group; communal living; community life

expression:

• used to create a rhetorical question indicating that the speaker actually believes the opposite is true; emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question - female language ➜ ものか

noun:

• double tooth; protruding tooth (like a fang); high canine

adverb:

• (not) much; (not) very ➜ さほど
• like this; as a rule - archaism

expression:

• a child is an everlasting responsibility - proverb

expression:

• habit is a second nature - proverb

expression:

• a meeting by chance is preordained - proverb

expression:

• a true gentleman is well-rounded - proverb

noun:

• hammer
• hopeless swimmer; complete beginner at swimming; someone who sinks like a stone - usually written using kana alone

expression:

• a curse will rebound on yourself as well; curses, like chickens, come home to roost - proverb

noun:

• body set on fire from head to foot (like a daruma doll being ritually incinerated)

noun:

• a life given up to pleasure; pleasure-seeking lifestyle - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to die peacefully; to have lived a full life

noun:

• origin of a character
• composition of a Chinese character
• Chinese character from which a kana character is derived

expression:

• to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and save a large one [literal] - proverb

expression:

• in spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn; in spring one sleeps like a log - proverb

expression:

• a man's word is his bond; a man does not go back on what he's said - proverb ➜ 二言【にごん】

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sweetly smiling; like the smiling of a beauty; gracious

noun / ~する noun:

• being protean and elusive; appear and disappear like a phantom - four character idiom

expression:

• money talks; money is the key that opens all doors; money is the best lawyer in hell; even in hell, the extent of one's suffering is determined by money [literal] - proverb

expression:

• to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; a crab digs a hole like its own shell [literal] - idiom

noun:

• second life (esp. that of a retiree)
• SecondLife (online virtual world)

expression:

• I am content with what I am (have); Rich is the person who is content with what he is - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

noun:

• bamboo growing along a river bank
• Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake
• Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
• prostitute; the life of a prostitute - archaism