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Variations:
無駄遣い
無駄使い(iK)
無駄づかい(sK)
むだ遣い(sK)
むだ使い(sK)
徒遣い(rK)

 mudazukai
    むだづかい
(noun, transitive verb) waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away

Variations:
無駄飯食い
無駄飯喰い
ムダ飯食い(sK)

 mudameshigui
    むだめしぐい
ne'er-do-well; waster; idler; good-for-nothing

Variations:
無駄骨
徒骨(rK)
ムダ骨(sK)
むだ骨(sK)

 mudabone
    むだぼね
wasted effort; fruitless effort; vain efforts

Variations:
行き掛けの駄賃
行きがけの駄賃
いきがけの駄賃
ゆきがけの駄賃

 ikigakenodachin(行ki掛keno賃, 行kigakeno賃, ikigakeno賃); yukigakenodachin(行ki掛keno賃, 行kigakeno賃, yukigakeno賃)
    いきがけのだちん(行き掛けの駄賃, 行きがけの駄賃, いきがけの駄賃); ゆきがけのだちん(行き掛けの駄賃, 行きがけの駄賃, ゆきがけの駄賃)
(expression) (idiom) taking the opportunity to do something; doing something incidentally; doing something while (you) are at it; doing something on the way; while I'm at it

親の意見と茄子の花は千に一つも無駄はない

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 oyanoikentonasubinohanahasennihitotsumomudahanai
    おやのいけんとなすびのはなはせんにひとつもむだはない
(exp,adj-i) (proverb) always listen to your parents; always value your parents' advice; not even one in a thousand of a parents' opinion or an eggplant flower are in vain

Variations:
買いだめ
買い溜め
買溜め(io)
買だめ(io)
買い駄目(iK)

 kaidame
    かいだめ
(noun, transitive verb) stocking up on; hoarding

Variations:
買いだめ
買い溜め
買溜め(sK)
買だめ(sK)
買い駄目(sK)

 kaidame
    かいだめ
(noun, transitive verb) stocking up (on); hoarding

Variations:
駄々(ateji)
駄駄(ateji)

 dada; dada
    だだ; ダダ
(See 駄々をこねる) whining (to get one's way); tantrum

Variations:
駄々っ子
駄駄っ子
だだっ子
駄々っ児
駄駄っ児
だだっ児

 dadakko
    だだっこ
unmanageable child; spoiled child (spoilt); spoiled brat

Variations:
駄々っ子
駄駄っ子
だだっ子
駄々っ児(rK)
駄駄っ児(rK)
ダダっ子(sK)

 dadakko
    だだっこ
unmanageable child; spoiled child (spoilt); spoiled brat

Variations:
駄々をこねる
駄々を捏ねる
駄駄をこねる
駄駄を捏ねる

 dadaokoneru
    だだをこねる
(exp,v1) to be unreasonable; to whine; to throw a tantrum

Variations:
駄々をこねる
駄々を捏ねる
駄駄をこねる(sK)
駄駄を捏ねる(sK)

 dadaokoneru
    だだをこねる
(exp,v1) to be unreasonable; to whine; to throw a tantrum

Variations:
駄々をこねる
駄々を捏ねる
駄駄をこねる(sK)
駄駄を捏ねる(sK)
駄々こねる(sK)
駄々捏ねる(sK)
だだ捏ねる(sK)
駄駄こねる(sK)

 dadaokoneru; dadakoneru(sk)
    だだをこねる; ダダこねる(sk)
(exp,v1) to be unreasonable; to whine; to throw a tantrum

Variations:
駄洒落
駄じゃれ(sK)
駄酒落(sK)

 dajare; dajare
    だじゃれ; ダジャレ
(kana only) (See しゃれ・1) feeble joke; poor joke; corny joke; bad pun

Variations:
駄目で元々
ダメで元々
駄目でもともと

 damedemotomoto; damedemotomoto
    だめでもともと; ダメでもともと
(expression) (See 駄目元) giving something a try because it will not do any harm

Variations:
駄目で元々
ダメで元々
駄目でもともと(sK)
だめで元々(sK)

 damedemotomoto; damedemotomoto
    だめでもともと; ダメでもともと
(expression) (See 駄目元) giving something a try because it will not do any harm

Variations:
下駄を預ける
ゲタを預ける(sK)
げたを預ける(sK)
下駄をあずける(sK)

 getaoazukeru
    げたをあずける
(exp,v1) (idiom) to leave everything to (someone)

Variations:
下駄履き
下駄ばき(sK)
げた履き(sK)

 getabaki
    げたばき
(1) wearing wooden clogs; (2) (colloquialism) floatplane

Variations:
下駄箱
げた箱(sK)
ゲタ箱(sK)

 getabako
    げたばこ
shoe rack (at an entrance); shoe cupboard; shoe cubby

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Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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