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  *和* | 和* | *和
(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
book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: / edition
HSK 1
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  *省* | 省* | *省
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
caricature / cartoon / Japanese manga
HSK 5
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  *籖* | 籖* | *籖
Japanese variant of 籤|签
HSK 5
Parliament (UK) / Congress (US) / Diet (Japan) / Legislative Yuan (Taiwan)
HSK 6
Japanese language
HSK 6
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  *入* | 入* | *入
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 "iri")
HSK 6
tram; streetcar / trolleybus / electric car / e-bike / (in the context of Japan) electric train
HSK 6
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
HSK 6
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  *枚* | 枚* | *枚
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 "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy
HSK 7-9
Japanese tea ceremony / sado
HSK 7-9
Koshihikari rice (variety of rice popular in Japan)
Liberal Democratic Party (Japanese political party)
Kondō (Japanese surname)
Nakajima or Nakashima (Japanese surname and place name)
Watanabe (Japanese surname)
China-Japan
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  *魋* | 魋* | *魋
Japanese brown bear
(ACG) Japan (from the anime "Code Geass", in which Japan was renamed Area 11)
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  *麿* | 麿* | *麿
(Japanese kokuji) I, me (archaic) / suffix attached to the name of a person or pet / pr. maro
Japanese flag (derog.)
Miura (Japanese surname and place name)
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  *原* | 原* | *原
surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara
Imjin war, Japanese invasion of Korea 1592-1598
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  *働* | 働* | *働
(Japanese kokuji) labor; work
Nomura (Japanese surname)
(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")
Yi Sunshin (1545-1598), Korean admiral and folk hero, famous for sea victories over the Japanese invaders
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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  *実* | 実* | *実
Japanese variant of 實|实
war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945)
Japanese (language)
rice ball (steamed rice formed into a ball and stuffed with various fillings) / onigiri (Japanese-style rice ball)
(slang) Japan
Korea Strait / Tsushima Strait (between Japan and Korea)
Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc
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
Akihito, personal name of the Heisei 平成 emperor of Japan (1933-), reigned 1989-2019
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  *桜* | 桜* | *桜
Japanese variant of 櫻|樱
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  *済* | 済* | *済
Japanese variant of 濟|济
Heavenly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇 / emperor / emperor of Japan
red algae / Gracilaria, several species, some edible / Japanese ogonori
(bird species of China) ochre-rumped bunting; Japanese reed bunting (Emberiza yessoensis)
Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922)
Japan
Unihan / China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs / abbr. for 中日韓統一表意文字|中日韩统一表意文字
Isetan, Japanese department store
miso (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 味噌 "miso") / also pr. [wei4 zeng1]
Fujimoto (Japanese surname)
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
Tamagawa (name) / Tamagawa city in Akita prefecture, Japan
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  *郷* | 郷* | *郷
Japanese variant of 鄉|乡
(bird species of China) Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
Katō (Japanese surname)
foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)
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)
five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang
Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan)
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
Taiho (a Japanese era)
kansei engineering (product design that aims to engender specific subjective responses in the consumer) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 感性工学 "kansei kougaku")
Noda Yoshihiko (1957-), prime minister of Japan 2011-2012
Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998) Japanese movie director
Yoshida (Japanese surname and place name)
Okinawa, Japan
Tokugawa, the ruling clan of Japan from 1550-1850
Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China
Kiyomizu temple in east Kyōto 京都, Japan
Tokyo, capital of Japan / Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
to recover (territory or power) / the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945
Yakult (Japanese brand of fermented milk drink)
Narita (Japanese surname and place name)
(orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension
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  *畑* | 畑* | *畑
used in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc / dry field (i.e. not paddy field)
KOIKE Yuriko (1952-), Japanese LDP politician, minister of defense during 2008
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
oriental cherry (Prunus serrulata or Prunus yedoensis), prized for its blossom / also known as sakura (Japanese) or Yoshino cherry
Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII
tatami (loanword from Japanese)
Arai (Japanese surname)
(bird species of China) Japanese sparrowhawk (Accipiter gularis)
Kubo (Japanese surname)
ibis / Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) / same as 朱䴉|朱鹮
Sea of Japan
Kumamoto city and prefecture in west Kyūshū 九州, Japan
see 中山市 / Nakayama (Japanese surname) / see 孫中山|孙中山
Miyagi prefecture in the north of Japan's main island Honshū 本州
Wang Ching-wei (1883-1944), left-wing Guomingdang politician, subsequently Japanese collaborator
Ricoh, Japanese imaging and electronics company
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  *坪* | 坪* | *坪
a plain / ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters (used in Japan and Taiwan)
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
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  *林* | 林* | *林
surname Lin / Japanese surname Hayashi
Mt. Fuji, Japan
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")
Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc
Kobe, city in Japan
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  *榊* | 榊* | *榊
(Japanese kokuji) sakaki (Cleyera japonica), evergreen tree used in Shinto to decorate sacred spaces
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  *縄* | 縄* | *縄
Japanese variant of 繩|绳

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