| | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]) / (math.) sum / to make peace / (sports) to draw; to tie / (bound form) harmonious / (bound form) Japan; Japanese | HSK 1 |
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| | to save; to economize; to be frugal / to omit; to delete; to leave out / province / provincial capital / a ministry (of the Japanese government) | HSK 2 |
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| | book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: 本 / edition | HSK 1 |
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| | caricature / cartoon / Japanese manga | HSK 5 |
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| | to enter; to go into / to join; to become a member of / (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时) / abbr. for 入聲|入声 / (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri") | HSK 6 |
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| | tram; streetcar / trolleybus / electric car / e-bike / (in the context of Japan) electric train | HSK 6 |
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| | (slang) socially tone-deaf; unable to read the room (from Japanese KY, acronym of 空気が 読めない "kuuki ga yomenai") | |
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| | Uniqlo, Japanese clothing brand | |
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| | Parliament (UK) / Congress (US) / Diet (Japan) / Legislative Yuan (Taiwan) | HSK 6 |
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| | Japanese language | HSK 6 |
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| | (ACG) another world; parallel universe (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 異世界 "isekai") | |
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| | (loanword from Japanese "NG", an initialism for "no good") (film and TV) blooper; to do a blooper | |
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| | (ACG) car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga etc (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 痛車 "itasha") | |
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| | Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora) | |
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| | Mori (Japanese surname) | |
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| | first-rate / excellent (loanword from Japanese 一番, ichiban) | |
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| | G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia) | |
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| | surname Lin / Japanese surname Hayashi | |
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| | Ryukyu Islands / Okinawa 沖繩|冲绳 and other islands of modern Japan | |
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| | Japan-US | |
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| | China, Japan and Korea | |
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| | Tokyo, capital of Japan / Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period) | |
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| | Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争 | |
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| | Gundam, Japanese animation franchise | |
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| | prime minister (of Japan or UK etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | Obuchi Keizo (1937-2000), Japanese politician, prime minister 1998-2000 | |
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| | (Internet slang) uploader (person who uploads a video or other content to the Internet) / pronounced [a4 pu5 zhu3] / (loanword from Japanese うp 主, "upunushi") | |
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| | Kyoto, Japan | |
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| | Dragon Ball, Japanese manga and anime series | |
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| | Niigata, a city and prefecture in Japan | |
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| | SHIBA Ryotarō (1923-1996), Japanese author of historical novels | |
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| | Hasegawa (Japanese surname) | |
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| | HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998 | |
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| | Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis) | |
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| | (Tw) Matsusaka pork – premium cut of pork, usually from the neck or jowl, noted for its fine marbling and tenderness, named by analogy with Japan's famous Matsusaka beef, not by origin | |
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| | oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth | |
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| | Northeast China / Manchuria / lit. east of Shanhai Pass 山海關|山海关 / Kantō region of Japan | |
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| | children's game played with illustrated cards / pogs / menko (Japan) | |
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| | division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands | |
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| | Matsuo (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Hatoyama, Japanese name and place name / Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010 | |
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| | koinobori, a Japanese carp-shaped windsock flown to celebrate Children's Day | |
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| | (term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries) | |
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| | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century) | |
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| | forest bathing: spending time in a forest, walking or deep-breathing etc, as therapy (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 森林浴 "shinrin'yoku") | |
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| | the Japanese Twenty-One Demands of 1915 | |
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| | mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga) | |
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| | mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan) / Japan (used in Taiwan during Japanese colonization) | |
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| | Doraemon, Japanese manga and anime series character | |
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| | Japan (old) / East Asian countries | |
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| | voice actor (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 声優 "seiyū") | |
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| | Japanese person | |
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| | Ueno, district in Taitō Ward, Tokyo / Ueno (Japanese surname) | |
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| | tempura (loanword from Japanese) | |
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| | Bank of Japan | |
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| | Reiwa, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (2019-) of emperor Naruhito 德仁 | |
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| | Miyazaki Hayao (1941-), Japanese director | |
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| | Kansai region, Japan / Guanxi or Kuanhsi town in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan | |
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| | Japan | |
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| | Mita, Sanda, Mitsuda etc (Japanese surname or place name) | |
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| | (coll.) presenting as unfriendly and blunt, but warm and tender inside (loanword from Japanese "tsundere") | |
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| | Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州 | |
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| | geisha (Japanese female entertainer) / also written 藝妓|艺妓 | |
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| | (literary) East China Sea / (literary) Japan | |
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| | Nara prefecture in central Japan | |
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| | hiragana (Japanese script) | |
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| | shamisen, three-stringed Japanese musical instrument | |
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| | Nakajima or Nakashima (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese literature Nobel laureate | |
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| | Heavenly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇 / emperor / emperor of Japan | |
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| | oriental cherry (Prunus serrulata or Prunus yedoensis), prized for its blossom / also known as sakura (Japanese) or Yoshino cherry | |
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| | Canon (Japanese company) | |
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| | Japanese tea ceremony / sado | HSK 7-9 |
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| | cartoon writer (from Japanese mangaka) | |
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| | Nakamura (Japanese surname) | |
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| | Kyōdō, Japanese news agency | |
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| | (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip | |
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| | Toshiba, Japanese electronics company | |
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| | Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) / see 馬鮫魚|马鲛鱼 | |
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| | Abe Shinzo (1954-2022), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007 and from 2012-2020 | |
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| | Japanese cuisine (abbr. for 日本料理) | |
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| | Japan and Korea | |
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| | Takada (Japanese surname) | |
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| | Mitsui (Japanese company) | |
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| | (China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) | |
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| | enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes), used in cuisines of Japan, Korea and China, cultivated to be long, thin and white | |
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| | the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America | |
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| | Pokémon or Pocket Monsters, popular Japanese video game, anime and manga | |
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| | ASICS (Japanese footwear brand) | |
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| | foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea) | |
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| | Daihatsu, Japanese car company | |
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| | Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper) | |
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| | udon, a thick Japanese-style wheat-flour noodle | |
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| | molester (loanword from Japanese "chikan") / idiot / fool | |
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| | Sino-Japanese relations | |
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| | Pokémon (Japanese media franchise) | |
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| | (Japanese) high school girl’s uniform | |
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