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• bi (ancient Chinese artifact; flat jade or glass disc with a circular hole in the centre)

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• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) - four character idiom

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• Yupian (ancient Chinese dictionary) - obscure term

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• karesansui, traditional (Chinese or Japanese) dry landscape garden - obscure term

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• upper jiao (in traditional Chinese medicine); upper burner

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• (in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt

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• official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)

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• ji (ancient Chinese halberd)

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• Five Dynasties (of Chinese history)

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• 36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese)

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• Hosso sect of Buddhism (Japanese equivalent of the Chinese Faxiang sect) ➜ 法相【ほっそう】

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• lower jiao (in traditional Chinese medicine); lower burner

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• Suika Shinto (fusion of Shinto with Chinese elements, esp. neo-Confucianism); Shidemasu Shinto

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• seven autumnal flowers (bush clover, Chinese silvergrass, kudzu, fringed pink, golden lace, thoroughwort, and balloon flower) ➜ 春の七草

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• Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (in Chinese history)

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• hu (ancient Chinese vessel shaped like a vase, usually used to store alcohol)

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• public recitation right (e.g. reciting a poem in a bookstore)

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• Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) (may imply Chinese aggression) - sensitive

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• suona (Chinese shawm)

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• meridian flow (in traditional Chinese medicine)

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• Gui Cang (Yin period method of Chinese divination)

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• fifth degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音

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• celestial stems (10 signs of the Chinese calendar) ➜ 十干

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• pineapple bun (Chinese sweet pastry similar to the Japanese melonpan) ➜ メロンパン

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• medicinal cooking (based on traditional Chinese medicine)