noun:

• the Sabbath; the Lord's Day

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to trim a tree; to prune a tree's branches - obscure term

noun:

• Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth - four character idiom

noun:

• kanji (esp. used as phonetic symbols); man's handwriting - archaism ➜ 万葉仮名・女仮名

expression:

• all around; as far as the eye can see

noun:

• ladies' magazine; women's magazine

noun / ~の noun:

• having a child (usu. from a former relationship); accompanied by one's child

interjection:

• How are you?; What's up?

noun:

• the last day of the year; New Year's Eve ➜ 大晦日

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to fess up; to come clean; to confess one's crimes; to spill the beans

expression:

• nothing costs as much as what is given to us; there's no such thing as a free lunch - proverb

expression:

• preaching to the deaf; wind (blowing) into a horse's ear [literal] - idiom ➜ 馬の耳に念仏

noun:

• starting with vigor but ending with no action; raising one's voice (in a call to action) and then failing to take action

noun:

• Dutch disease; decline in a country's manufacturing sector owing to increased exploitation of natural resources - Business term

noun:

• first-degree relative; member of one's immediate family

adjectival noun / noun:

• as one expects; as one wants; to one's satisfaction; as one sees fit

adjectival noun:

• seeming to want to say something; looking like one wants to give one's opinion

expression:

• Homer sometimes nods; even Kōbō Daishi's handwriting contains mistakes [literal] - proverb

expression:

• when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

noun:

• Gini coefficient; Gini's coefficient ➜ 所得不平等度係数

noun:

• fortifying mochi; mochi that improves one's strength
• mochi received from one's parents after giving birth ➜ 汁の餅
• mochi given to a toddler on its first birthday

noun:

• individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed

noun:

• adviser; someone to consult with; someone to turn to about one's concerns; confidant - four character idiom

noun:

• laryngeal prominence; Adam's Apple ➜ 喉仏

noun:

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