noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

expression:

• the wolf knows what the ill beast thinks; it takes one to know one - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing

noun:

• heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 四天王・六欲天

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to buy a replacement; to replace by buying something new

noun / ~する noun:

• taking command of a corps in a battle; command exercised by the leader of a group - four character idiom

noun:

• rapid progress; minute-by-minute progress

adverb:

• stepwise; one step at a time

noun:

• double-sided wait (for one's last tile); wait for either of two different tiles to complete a chow which will finish one's hand - Mahjong term ➜ 両面待ち【リャンメンまち】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to run past; to run by
• to go too far ahead

noun / ~する noun:

• please accept (this); used to refer to another's acceptance of one's present - humble language ➜ ご笑納・つまらない物ですが

noun:

• Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)

expression:

• for money; just for money; by means of money; by force of money

noun:

• immediate deal; deal sealed by one word - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to seek a path; to find one's way

expression / noun:

• heyday; prime; one's glory; the height of one's prosperity

expression:

• two is a company, three is a crowd; one companion is better than two - proverb

expression:

• a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next - proverb

expression:

• if you visit the toilet while travelling, you will get behind your fellow travelers; one chou for a piss, one ri for a shit [literal] - archaism - proverb ➜ 里【り】・町

expression / noun:

• universal brotherhood; all eight corners of the world under one roof - WWII political slogan often seen as implying Japanese world domination - four character idiom

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

expression:

• the more I think about it; the more one thinks about it

noun:

• at-home overtime; time spent on work one brings home ➜ サービス残業【サービスざんぎょう】

noun:

• daily wages; payment by the day