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• university of foreign studies; university specializing in foreign languages

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• blessing of earth; winning with a self-drawn tile in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

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• abbreviated koyomi (Japanese traditional calendar); koyomi presented in a smaller, easy to use, format - abbreviation ➜ 略本暦

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• (a) multiple birth; childbirth resulting in twins, triplets, etc.

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• dragon's blood palm (Daemonorops draco); bright red resin used in medicine, dyes, etc. ➜ 竜血樹

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• Dutch disease; decline in a country's manufacturing sector owing to increased exploitation of natural resources - Business term

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• declining birth rates; decrease in the number of children

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• Japanese text; sentence in Japanese - archaism ➜ 和文

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• inarizushi; sushi wrapped in fried tofu - Food term

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• when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

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• Eridacnis; genus of finback catshark in the family Proscylliidae

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• first day of cherry blossoms reaching full bloom; first day in which at least 80% of the somei yoshino cherry blossom has opened (in a specific region or place)

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• adding something to or altering a finished work of art; something added or altered in this manner

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• traditional Japanese wind instrument resembling panpipes; free-reed instrument used in Japanese court music

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• sewing elastic; flat bands of elastic for sewing in cuffs, etc.

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• taking turns; in rotation

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• shoryuken; uppercut move in the Street Fighter video game series

noun:

• kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan

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• leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen; young leading subordinate in yakuza group

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• late frost; frost in late spring ➜ 忘れ霜【わすれじも】

noun / ~する noun:

• accompanying; being in attendance on

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• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

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• backlighting; having a light source in front of the camera lens in photography - abbreviation ➜ 逆光線

noun:

• opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines

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• jiedushi; regional military governor in ancient China

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• Clarke number; abundance of a chemical element in the Earth's crust, as calculated by geochemist Frank Wigglesworth Clarke - Geology term