noun:

• older brother - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (in ref. to male of greater age or status) - epistolary style - honorific language ➜ 小弟

noun / ~の noun:

• right in the center (centre) - colloquialism

noun:

• making replacements for defensive purposes in the late inning of a game - Baseball term

noun:

• activist (in a political movement); crusader (e.g. for women's rights)

noun:

• final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• slapping hands in front of the opponent's face to confuse him - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the first round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the second round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• newly recruited wrestlers in the third round of presentation after mae-zumo - Sumo term

noun:

• someone with hair combed in stripes across their bald spot - from "barcode head"

expression:

• all things are in a state of flux; everything is constantly changing - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun / adjectival noun:

• being full of vitality (energy); vigorous and in high spirits - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• billing and cooing; holding an intimate, long-winded conversation in whispers - archaism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking off short (in one's speech); rendered speechless for a moment - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• staunch (steadfast, single-hearted) in one's devotion to his master (lord) - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• staunch (steadfast, single-hearted) in one's devotion to his master (lord) - four character idiom

noun:

• lingering recession; an economy that lingers in the doldrums after bottoming out - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• passing away peacefully to be reborn in Paradise through invocation of Amitabha - four character idiom

expression:

• cool! (only when said or written in a questioning tone); incredible; unbelievable

noun:

• rescue and assistance (by public bodies) (e.g. in time of disaster)

noun / ~する noun:

• kicking a ball in mid-air (soccer, football) - From English "volley shoot"

noun:

• slip of the pen; mistake in writing; misspelling; lapsus calami

noun:

• hungry spirit (lacking in people not having drive or ambition)

noun:

• title of a thread in email, news, etc. - From English "thread title"

noun:

• ten important Rinzai temples, second in significance to the Kyoto Gozan - obscure term