noun:

• private (soldier); (common) soldier; ranks; rank and file

noun:

• lotus position (meditation and yoga posture); padmasana; sitting with legs crossed and feet placed on opposing thighs - abbreviation ➜ 結跏趺坐【けっかふざ】

noun:

• sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth; all show and no substance - four character idiom

noun:

• manager; steward; factotum; person next in rank to the chief retainers and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) ➜ 御用人
• useful person

expression / noun:

• a swan among ducklings; a diamond among stones; a great figure among the common run of men - idiom

noun:

• something-something; yada yada; so-and-so ➜ うんたらかんたら

noun:

• manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period) - honorific language ➜ 用人

noun:

• billhook; fascine knife; sickle-shaped tool with a sharp inner edge, halfway between a knife and an axe

adjectival noun / noun:

• subtle grace; hidden beauty; yugen; mysterious profundity; elegant simplicity; the subtle and profound; the occult

expression:

• might is right; history is written by the victors; winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong - proverb

noun:

• sō-on; Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese (esp. in words related to Zen Buddhism) ➜ 唐音【とうおん】・宋【そう】

noun:

• capital investment; capital expenditure; investment in plant and equipment

noun:

• thievish nature (character); thieving heart; cunning and greedy character - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• reorganization (e.g. of a company); reorganisation; consolidation; scrap-and-build

expression / adverb:

• in all parts of the world; in all countries; anywhere in the world; both in the Occident and the Orient

noun:

• rush job; slipshod job; quick-and-dirty work

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to change; to shift; to come and go

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to go on a trip; to go out to play; to go and visit (a friend) ➜ 遊びに来る

noun:

• yellow sand; yellow dust; Asian dust; dust carried on high winds from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan
• loess ➜ 黄土
• desert ➜ 砂漠

noun / adjectival noun:

• openhearted; unaffected; free and easy - four character idiom

noun:

• disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits

noun:

• settlement house; neighborhood house; voluntarily run welfare facility

noun:

• lucubration; elaboration; chisel and ax - archaism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take out; to take a handful of; to grab and throw
• to turn someone out (of house, room, etc.)

noun:

• tōsō-on; Tang-Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese ➜ 唐音【とうおん】