noun:

• moderate line; middle-of-the-road line (in politics) - four character idiom

noun:

• treacherous friend; snake in one's bosom; treacherous insider - four character idiom

noun:

• imagined landscape; scenery in one's mind's eye - four character idiom

noun:

• main currents (the trend) of thinking in the world - four character idiom

ichidan verb:

• to put something in the wrong place; to misplace

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜に烏

expression / noun:

• something indistinct; a crow in a pitch-black night [literal] ➜ 闇夜の烏

noun / ~の noun:

• in the mountains; within the grounds of a temple

counter:

• ~th period (e.g. ~th class in school day) ➜ 限目

~の noun:

• in form; ceremonial; for form's sake; pro forma

noun:

• hospital department; department in the field of medical care

noun / ~の noun:

• being carried out; being put into practice; in operation

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take into consideration; to bear in mind

noun:

• secondary cooling water (esp. in a pressurized water reactor)

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to stop in the midst of; to leave undone - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 差す【さす】

expression / adjective:

• helpful (in terms of taking care of people) ➜ 面倒見のいい

noun:

• feeling of emptiness in the stomach; sensation of hunger

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall flat; to collapse in a heap ➜ 倒れる

adverb:

• in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever ➜ いつの時代も

adverb:

• in all ages; over the ages; forever and ever ➜ いつの時代にも

counter:

• ~th period (e.g. ~th class in school day)

noun:

• the whole village
• all the villages (in an area)

pre-noun adjectival:

• somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fish; to have a line in the water

noun:

• auxiliary inflecting word; in Japanese, auxiliary verbs and adjectives - Linguistics term