| | (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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| | book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: 本 / edition | 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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| | caricature / cartoon / Japanese manga | HSK 5 |
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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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| | 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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| | prime minister (of Japan or UK etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Japanese tea ceremony / sado | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Koshihikari rice (variety of rice popular in Japan) | |
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| | Liberal Democratic Party (Japanese political party) | |
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| | Kondō (Japanese surname) | |
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| | Nakajima or Nakashima (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Watanabe (Japanese surname) | |
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| | China-Japan | |
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| | Japanese brown bear | |
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| | (ACG) Japan (from the anime "Code Geass", in which Japan was renamed Area 11) | |
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| | (Japanese kokuji) I, me (archaic) / suffix attached to the name of a person or pet / pr. maro | |
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| | Japanese flag (derog.) | |
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| | Miura (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara | |
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| | Imjin war, Japanese invasion of Korea 1592-1598 | |
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| | (Japanese kokuji) labor; work | |
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| | Nomura (Japanese surname) | |
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| | (Tw) (slang) privileged people oblivious to the hardships of others; Taipei residents or urban dwellers who consider themselves superior to others (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 天竜人 "Tenryūjin", an arrogant, privileged group in the manga "One Piece") | |
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| | Yi Sunshin (1545-1598), Korean admiral and folk hero, famous for sea victories over the Japanese invaders | |
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| | a guild / (in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild / the Japanese word for company | |
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| | war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945) | |
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| | Japanese (language) | |
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| | rice ball (steamed rice formed into a ball and stuffed with various fillings) / onigiri (Japanese-style rice ball) | |
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| | (slang) Japan | |
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| | Korea Strait / Tsushima Strait (between Japan and Korea) | |
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| | Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc | |
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| | Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), Qing dynasty poet and diplomat, author of A Record of Japan 日本國誌|日本国志, an extended analysis of Meiji Japan | |
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| | Akihito, personal name of the Heisei 平成 emperor of Japan (1933-), reigned 1989-2019 | |
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| | Heavenly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇 / emperor / emperor of Japan | |
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| | red algae / Gracilaria, several species, some edible / Japanese ogonori | |
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| | (bird species of China) ochre-rumped bunting; Japanese reed bunting (Emberiza yessoensis) | |
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| | Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922) | |
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| | Japan | |
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| | Isetan, Japanese department store | |
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| | miso (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 味噌 "miso") / also pr. [wei4 zeng1] | |
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| | Fujimoto (Japanese surname) | |
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| | the Save the Nation Anti-Japanese Protest Movement stemming from the Manchurian railway incident of 18th July 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 | |
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| | Tamagawa (name) / Tamagawa city in Akita prefecture, Japan | |
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| | (bird species of China) Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus) | |
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| | Katō (Japanese surname) | |
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| | foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea) | |
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| | to grow a beard as a symbol of one's determination (as Mei Lanfang 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳 growing a beard and refusing to perform for the Japanese) | |
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| | five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang | |
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| | Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan) | |
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| | Ryūkyū / refers to the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛 stretching from Japan to Taiwan / Liuchiu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan | |
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| | Taiho (a Japanese era) | |
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| | kansei engineering (product design that aims to engender specific subjective responses in the consumer) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 感性工学 "kansei kougaku") | |
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| | Noda Yoshihiko (1957-), prime minister of Japan 2011-2012 | |
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| | Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998) Japanese movie director | |
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| | Yoshida (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Okinawa, Japan | |
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| | Tokugawa, the ruling clan of Japan from 1550-1850 | |
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| | Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China | |
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| | Kiyomizu temple in east Kyōto 京都, Japan | |
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| | Tokyo, capital of Japan / Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period) | |
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| | to recover (territory or power) / the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945 | |
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| | Yakult (Japanese brand of fermented milk drink) | |
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| | Narita (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension | |
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| | used in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc / dry field (i.e. not paddy field) | |
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| | KOIKE Yuriko (1952-), Japanese LDP politician, minister of defense during 2008 | |
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| | Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) | |
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| | Osaka Prefecture, 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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| | Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII | |
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| | tatami (loanword from Japanese) | |
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| | Arai (Japanese surname) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Japanese sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis) | |
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| | Kubo (Japanese surname) | |
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| | ibis / Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) / same as 朱䴉|朱鹮 | |
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| | Sea of Japan | |
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| | Kumamoto city and prefecture in west Kyūshū 九州, Japan | |
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| | see 中山市 / Nakayama (Japanese surname) / see 孫中山|孙中山 | |
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| | Miyagi prefecture in the north of Japan's main island Honshū 本州 | |
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| | Wang Ching-wei (1883-1944), left-wing Guomingdang politician, subsequently Japanese collaborator | |
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| | Ricoh, Japanese imaging and electronics company | |
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| | a plain / ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters (used in Japan and Taiwan) | |
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| | Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper) | |
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| | surname Lin / Japanese surname Hayashi | |
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| | Mt. Fuji, Japan | |
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| | a great blessing / daifuku, a traditional Japanese sweet consisting of a soft, chewy outer layer made of glutinous rice (mochi) and a sweet filling, commonly red bean paste (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大福 "daifuku") | |
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| | Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc | |
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| | Kobe, city in Japan | |
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| | (Japanese kokuji) sakaki (Cleyera japonica), evergreen tree used in Shinto to decorate sacred spaces | |
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