夷則: ninth note of the shí-èr-lǜ; seventh month of the lunar calendar

子息: (honorific) son / 四足: four-footed / 四則: the four basic arithmetic operations / 四塞: / 紙燭, 脂燭: / 視束: optic tract

蛇足: something useless; unnecessary; superfluous

遠足: excursion

speculation, conjecture, guesswork

酸い: sour (taste)

水: one of the five classical elements in traditional Chinese philosophy and medicine: see the "Wu Xing" entry on Wikipedia / 粋: chic, style, purity, essence

水: Wednesday

水曜: Wednesday / 垂楊: weeping willow

素直: tractable; honest, direct