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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
jacket / upper outer garment / CL:
HSK 3
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  *玉* | 玉* | *玉
jade
HSK 4
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  *投* | 投* | *投
to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc) / to cast (a ballot) / to cast (a glance, a shadow etc) / to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine) / to send (a letter, a manuscript etc) / to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide) / to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of / (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
HSK 4
coat / jacket / CL:
HSK 4
traffic jam / (of traffic) to get congested
HSK 4
caricature / cartoon / Japanese manga
HSK 5
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  *丑* | 丑* | *丑
clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30°
HSK 5
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  *签* | 签* | *签
Japanese variant of 籤|签
HSK 5
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  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
to prick / to run or stick (a needle etc) into / mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")
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
Japanese language
HSK 6
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  *酱* | 酱* | *酱
thick paste of fermented soybean / marinated in soy paste / paste / jam
HSK 6
jam
HSK 6
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
HSK 6
Parliament (UK) / Congress (US) / Diet (Japan) / Legislative Yuan (Taiwan)
HSK 6
cleaner / janitor / garbage collector
HSK 6
nick / jag / gap / shortfall
HSK 7-9
arrangement / composition / layout / opening (chess jargon)
HSK 7-9
knight / Sir / (loanword) jazz
HSK 7-9
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  *罐* | 罐* | *罐
can / jar / pot
HSK 7-9
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  *捅* | 捅* | *捅
to poke; to jab / to give (sb) a nudge; to prod / to disclose; to reveal
HSK 7-9
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  *戳* | 戳* | *戳
to jab / to poke / to stab / (coll.) to sprain / to blunt / to fuck (vulgar) / to stand / to stand (sth) upright / stamp / seal
HSK 7-9
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  *坛* | 坛* | *坛
earthen jar
HSK 7-9
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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
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
HSK 7-9
red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)
HSK 7-9
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  *缸* | 缸* | *缸
jar / vat / classifier for loads of laundry / CL:
HSK 7-9
lit. burying jade and interring incense (idiom); funeral for a beautiful person
Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution
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  *玷* | 玷* | *玷
blemish / disgrace / flaw in jade
Central Java, province of Indonesia
Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë 夏洛特·勃良特
(Internet slang) uploader (person who uploads a video or other content to the Internet) / pronounced [a4 pu5 zhu3] / (loanword from Japanese うp, "upunushi")
Ōno (Japanese surname and place name)
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  *日* | 日* | *日
abbr. for 日本, Japan
Shinkansen (Japanese high-speed train)
Yakult (Japanese brand of fermented milk drink)
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  *㻅* | 㻅* | *㻅
jade ornament in the seams of cap
Antei (Japanese reign name, 1227-1229)
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  *莞* | 莞* | *莞
Skimmia japonica
(slang) masochist (from Japanese ドM, "doemu")
Tamagawa city in Akita prefecture, Japan
lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom) / fig. to turn hostility into friendship
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
(bird species of China) Sichuan jay (Perisoreus internigrans)
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  *呢* | 呢* | *呢
dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)
(ACG) Japan (from the anime "Code Geass", in which Japan was renamed Area 11)
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  *圭* | 圭* | *圭
jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies / sundial / (ancient unit of volume) a tiny amount; a smidgen; a speck
KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991
upper jacket
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  *瑕* | 瑕* | *瑕
blemish / flaw in jade
matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake), edible mushroom considered a great delicacy in Japan
five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang
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  *蒻* | 蒻* | *蒻
young rush (Typha japonica), a kind of cattail
breeze / (Tw) Japanese-style (cooking etc)
jade / jade and stone / (fig.) the good and the bad
Kojima (Japanese surname and place name)
sleeveless jacket (usually cotton) / Chinese waistcoat
Sumitomo, Japanese company
food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom) / the cost of living is very high
Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原, Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
rough gentian / Japanese gentian (Gentiana scabra)
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  *梅* | 梅* | *梅
plum / plum flower / Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
Accord (Honda brand Japanese car model)
oriental cherry (Prunus serrulata or Prunus yedoensis), prized for its blossom / also known as sakura (Japanese) or Yoshino cherry
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  *壌* | 壌* | *壌
Japanese variant of
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  *琪* | 琪* | *琪
(literary) fine jade
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  *子* | 子* | *子
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
jade artifact
Honshū, the main island of Japan
Jamaica
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  *原* | 原* | *原
surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara
Yokosuka city and US naval base to the west of Yokohama, Japan
to seal jars etc with mud, clay or lute / lute / luting
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  *荘* | 荘* | *荘
Japanese variant of 莊|庄
Kasukabe, city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
(Japanese) high school girl’s uniform
red algae / Gracilaria, several species, some edible / Japanese ogonori
Akihito, personal name of the Heisei 平成 emperor of Japan (1933-), reigned 1989-2019
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  *衫* | 衫* | *衫
garment / jacket with open slits in place of sleeves
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  *専* | 専* | *専
Japanese variant of 專|专
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  *蔚* | 蔚* | *蔚
Artemisia japonica / luxuriant / resplendent / impressive
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
Java (island of Indonesia)
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case
Hakodate, main port of south Hokkaidō 北海道, Japan
Ultraman, Japanese science fiction superhero
Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius)
December 9th Movement (1935), student-led demonstrations demanding that the Chinese government resist Japanese aggression
Sakurajima, an active volcano in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
white jade / tofu (by analogy)
Ricoh, Japanese imaging and electronics company
Japanese pirates (in 16th and 17th century)
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  *渉* | 渉* | *渉
Japanese variant of
Japan (old) / East Asian countries

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