四文字熟語
A collection of (relatively) common yon-moji jukugo.
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- 新進気鋭
- しんしんきえい young and energetic; up-and-coming
- 生者必滅
- しょうじゃひつめつ all living things must die
- 円転滑脱
- えんてんかつだつ versatility, adaptability, tact
- 厚顔無恥
- こうがんむち shameless, brazen; unscrupulous
- 前代未聞
- ぜんだいみもん（の） unheard-of, unprecedented, unparalleled in history; record-breaking
- 生殺与奪（の権を握っている）
- せいさつよだつ（のけんをにぎっている） having power of life and death over
- 呉越同舟
- ごえつどうしゅう bitter enemies placed by fate in the same boat
- 粉骨砕身
- ふんこつさいしん（な） to do one's best; exert oneself; to the utmost
- 自縄自縛
- じじょうじばく being hung with one's own rope, caught in one's own trap
- 明哲保身
- めいてつほしん wisdom and self-protection; wise and skilled in the art of self-protection
- 複雑怪奇
- ふくざつかいき complicated and mysterious
- 人跡未踏
- じんせきみとう unexplored
- 粒粒辛苦
- りゅうりゅうしんく（する） toil and moil; working assiduously for; painstaking labour
- 勧善懲悪
- かんぜんちょうあく the just rewarded and the unjust punished; morality didactic; novel, play with such a theme
- 悪口雑言
- あっこうぞうごん all kinds of malicious gossip; heaping verbal abuse on; cursing and swearing
- 不可抗力
- ふかこうりょく（な） act of God; irresistible force; inevitability; force majeure (in contracts)
- 放歌高吟
- ほうかこうぎん（する） loud singing, raise the roof
- 抱腹絶倒
- ほうふくぜっとう（する） very funny; laugh oneself into convulsions; split one's sides laughing
- 津々浦々
- つつうらうら（に） all over the country; throughout the land; every nook and cranny of the land
- 泰然自若
- たいぜんじじゃく（と） having presence of mind; self-possessed; imperturbable; calm and self-possessed
- 冠婚葬祭
- かんこんそうさい important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
- 門外不出
- もんがいふしゅつ（とされる） treasure something (by never taking it off, or allowing it to leave the premises)
- 合従連衡
- がっしょうれんこう alliance, combining forces
- 酔生夢死
- すいせいむし idling one's life away
- 森羅万象
- しんらばんしょう all things in nature, the whole of creation
- 一言居士
- いちごんこじ・いちげんこじ a person ready to comment on every subject, a ready critic
- 千載一遇
- せんざいいちぐう once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; golden opportunity; once in a 1000 years
- 竜頭蛇尾
- りゅうとうだび strong beginning and a weak ending; anti-climax
- 情状酌量
- じょうじょうしゃくりょう（する） take the extenuating circumstances into consideration
- 千変万化
- せんぺんばんか（する） innumerable changes, infinite variety
- 朝令暮改
- ちょうれいぼかい an unsettled course of action; orders or laws being revised often with no guiding principles
- 巧遅拙速
- こうちせっそく quick and rough-hewn work is better than polished but slow
- 自業自得
- じごうじとく paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just desserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reap what you sow
- 用意周到
- よういしゅうとう（な） very careful, prudent; thoroughly-prepared
- 傍若無人
- ぼうじゃくぶじん arrogance, audacity; behaving outrageously as though noone were around; insolence, defiance; overbearing
- 因果応報
- いんがおうほう retribution, karma
- 三位一体
- さんみいったい the trinity
- 感慨無量
- かんがいむりょう deep emotion; mind filled with 1000 emotions
- 五風十雨
- ごふうじゅうう seasonal rains and winds; halcyon weather; halcyon times of peace
- 唯々諾々
- いいだくだく（と） quite willingly, readily; with acquiescence
- 言語道断
- ごんごどうだん（な） outrageous, preposterous, inexcusable, absurd
- 徹頭徹尾
- てっとうてつび thoroughly, through and through
- 異国情緒
- いこくじょうちょ（な） an exotic mood, atmosphere; exoticism
- 不即不離
- ふそくふり neutral, non-committed
- 順風満帆
- じゅんぷうまんぱん smooth sailing; plain sailing
- 破邪顕正
- はじゃけんしょう crushing evil and spreading truth (Buddh)
- 南船北馬
- なんせんほくば constant travelling, being on the move, restless wandering
- 内政干渉
- ないせいかんしょう intervention in domestic affairs (of a foreign country)
- 雲散霧消
- うんさんむしょう（する） disperse like mist, go up in smoke; vanish without trace
- 暗中模索
- あんちゅうもさく（する） grope in the dark; exploring new avenues without having any clues
- 大言壮語
- たいげんそうご（する） big talk, boasting, bragging
- 和魂漢才
- わこんかんさい japanese spirit imbued with chinese learning
- 春宵一刻
- しゅんしょういっこく a moment of time in a spring evening (is worth a 1000 pieces of gold)
- 会者定離
- えしゃじょうり those who meet must part
- 空前絶後
- くうぜんぜつご so marvellous (or horrible) that it may be the first and the last
- 百戦錬磨
- ひゃくせんれんま schooled by adversity in many battles; rich in life's experience gained through much adversity; veteran
- 離合集散
- りごうしゅうさん（する） alliance and rupture
- 相陣閑居
- しょうじんかんきょ a small-minded person being idle (tends to do evil); small minds left idle make mischief
- 老若男女
- ろうにゃくなんにょ・ろうじゃくだんじょ men and women of all ages
- 浅学菲才
- せんがくひさい lack of learning and ability; shallow learning and limited ability
- 枝葉末節
- しようまっせつ（な） unimportant details (branches and leaves); inessentials