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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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  *签* | 签* | *签
Japanese variant of 籤|签
HSK 5
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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
prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)
HSK 6
Parliament (UK) / Congress (US) / Diet (Japan) / Legislative Yuan (Taiwan)
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
Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution
(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)
Antei (Japanese reign name, 1227-1229)
(slang) masochist (from Japanese ドM, "doemu")
Tamagawa city in Akita prefecture, Japan
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
(ACG) Japan (from the anime "Code Geass", in which Japan was renamed Area 11)
KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991
five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang
breeze / (Tw) Japanese-style (cooking etc)
Kojima (Japanese surname and place name)
Sumitomo, Japanese company
rough gentian / Japanese gentian (Gentiana scabra)
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  *梅* | 梅* | *梅
plum / plum flower / Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
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
Honshū, the main island of Japan
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  *原* | 原* | *原
surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara
Yokosuka city and US naval base to the west of Yokohama, Japan
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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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  *専* | 専* | *専
Japanese variant of 專|专
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)
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
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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  *槐* | 槐* | *槐
Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) / Japanese pagoda tree
Japan
Japanese encephalitis (abbr. for 乙型腦炎|乙型脑炎)
to resist Japan (esp. during WW2) / anti-Japanese (esp. wartime activities)
Canon (Japanese company)
(TCM) Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945)
Endō (Japanese surname)
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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)
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)
Japanese cornel (Cornus officinalis)
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  *聴* | 聴* | *聴
Japanese variant of 聽|听
Li Ying (1963-), Japanese-educated Chinese documentary film director
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  *峠* | 峠* | *峠
(Japanese kokuji) mountain pass / (fig.) crisis point / pr. tōge
Nissan, Japanese car make / also transliterated 尼桑
see 中山市 / see 中山區|中山区 / Nakayama (Japanese surname) / see 孫中山|孙中山
voice actor (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 声優 "seiyū")
Ajinomoto, Japanese food and chemical corporation
izakaya (a kind of traditional Japanese pub)
Nagoya, city in Japan
omurice, Japanese dish consisting of an omelet wrapped around fried rice and often topped with ketchup
Lüshun port, on the tip of the Liaoning peninsula / called Port Arthur during Russian occupation and Russian-Japanese war of 1905 / in Lüshunkou district of Dalian 大連|大连, Liaoning
(Tw) gift given when visiting sb (esp. a local specialty brought back from one's travels, or a special product of one's own country taken overseas) (loanword from Japanese "omiyage")
Epson, Japanese electronics company
Hyōgo prefecture in the midwest of Japan's main island Honshū 本州
monogatari / epic narrative (Japanese literary form)
kamikaze unit (Japanese corps of suicide pilots in World War II)
KOMURA Masahiko (1942-), Japanese politician, foreign minister from 1998, minister of defense from 2007
Japanese goods
Ryōanji, temple in northwest Kyōto 京都, Japan with famous rock garden
Accord (Honda brand Japanese car model)
Omron Corporation (Japanese electronics company)
Fujii (Japanese surname)
Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc
Tsushima Island, between Japan and South Korea
Honda (Japanese name)
Tokyo, capital of Japan / Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
Kiyomizu temple in east Kyōto 京都, Japan
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  *駅* | 駅* | *駅
Japanese variant of 驛|驿
Kyoto, Japan
Daihatsu, Japanese car company
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  *貉* | 貉* | *貉
raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) / raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki) / also pr. [hao2]
iron panel / hot iron plate for fast grilling (Japanese: teppan)
Gundam, Japanese animation franchise / (Tw) Gouda (cheese)
(orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension
Kaneko (Japanese surname)
millet / (ACG) collectible merch (loanword from "goods", via Japanese "guzzu")
Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments

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