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)
- standing at attention, standing stiffly upright
yojijukugo expression
- being lost in deep thought
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- domineering husband, hectoring husband, husband who rules the roost
yojijukugo noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する
- prostrating oneself
yojijukugo adverb
- thoroughly, through and through, out and out, in every way, from beginning to end, from start to finish
yojijukugo な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- perfect beauty with no trace of artifice, flawless
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- gallery (in a theatre), upper gallery, cheap seats, nosebleed section, the gods
obsolete reading yojijukugo な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- peerless, unequaled, unequalled
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- a person without a single relative
yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- the open sky and the serene sea, as open as the sky and serene as the sea, magnanimous