expression:

• better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never know - proverb ➜ 聞くは一時の恥聞かぬは一生の恥

noun:

• glue and lacquer; great intimacy

noun / ~する noun:

• work hard and practice frugality - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• tranquillity and peace; tranquility and peace; peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• India and Pakistan

noun:

• sweeping and cleaning

noun:

• Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Law

noun:

• policy of increasing national prosperity and military power

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• sudden and unexpected (as in a person's death)

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - obscure term ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• two forces of yin and yang

noun:

• workplace and residence

noun:

• split fingered fast ball

noun:

• way of entangling one's hands together to leave a small opening between the middle and ring fingers; fox's window [literal]

adjectival noun / adverb / noun / ~する noun:

• soft and flabby - onomatopoeia

noun:

• China and Taiwan

noun:

• hard line

~と adverb / adverb:

• wet and glistening; slimy; slippery

~する noun:

• to have a sheen; to be slimy

noun:

• (Democratic Republic of) Sao Tome and Principe

expression:

• something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); eye drops from the second floor [literal] - idiom

noun:

• ranking system based on dan and kyū (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.) ➜ 級・段

noun / ~する noun:

• making a plan and anticipating its fruition - obsolete term

noun:

• hard work

noun:

• plans for one's day, plans for one's year, plans for one's life, and plans for one's family

expression:

• It's good to have a girl first and then a boy