List: yojijukugo
Words consisting of four kanji characters having a particular meaning that cannot be inferred from the meanings of the components that make them up.
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- mixed bag, mixture of good and bad, jumble of wheat and chaff, mixture of precious gems and common rocks
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- loyalty to the emperor and expulsion of the foreigners
yojijukugo noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- jump up for joy
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- gird oneself up
idiomatic expression yojijukugo expression noun noun (generic)
- small fraction (of), drop in the bucket, drop in the ocean
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- narrow escape from the jaw of death
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- dagger
yojijukugo adverb noun noun (generic)
- almost certainly, in all probability, ten to one, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred
- near-completeness, near-perfection, ninety-nine percent (finished, etc.)
yojijukugo noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- (so marvelous or horrible that it may be) the first and probably the last
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- castle in the air