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• qin (7-stringed Chinese zither); guqin

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• bianzhong (ancient Chinese musical instrument; bronze bells set in a wooden frame, played with a mallet) ➜ 鐘

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• Trimma sheppardi (species of goby found in the Indo-West Pacific)

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• introduction, development, turn and conclusion (quadripartite structure of certain Chinese poetry) - four character idiom
• story composition and development

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• Vietnamese reading (of Chinese characters)

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• Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (ancient Chinese Daoist movement later known as The Way of the Celestial Masters) ➜ 天師道

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• Queen Mother of the West (an ancient Chinese goddess)

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• decoction (in Chinese medicine)

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• foreign dog (esp. of Chinese origin) - obscure term

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• yunwei (secondary vowel or consonant following the primary vowel of a Chinese character)

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• slender unicorn (Naso minor, species of Indo-West Pacific tang found from Mozambique to the Philippines); blackspine unicornfish; little unicorn

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• (Chinese-style) almond jelly; dessert of powdered and jellied apricot kernels with fruit

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• water poisoning (in traditional Chinese medicine, illnesses caused by excessive water accumulation within the body)

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• six ministers (of the six Zhou-dynasty Chinese ministries) ➜ 六官

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• yellowfin surgeonfish (Acanthurus xanthopterus, Indo-Pacific species of tang)

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• xiaolongbao (eastern Chinese steamed bun); soup dumpling - From Chinese

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• small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state) - four character idiom

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• palace examination (national Chinese civil servant examination based largely on classic literature); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 科挙
• examination for promotion in the Ministry of Ceremonies (based largely on political duties and Chinese classics); someone who has passed this examination ➜ 式部省

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• qin and se (two different kinds of Chinese zither) ➜ 瑟・琴【きん】
• happy marriage

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• qin (7-stringed Chinese zither); guqin; seven-stringed koto - colloquialism ➜ 琴【きん】

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• mu (Chinese measure of land area, formerly ~600 m.sq., currently ~667 m.sq.) - obscure term ➜ 畝【せ】

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• Naude's rubble goby (Trimma naudei, an Indo-West Pacific fish species); rubble dwarfgoby; red pygmy-goby

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• junk (Chinese ship)

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• blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark found in the Indo-West Pacific)

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• Way of the Celestial Masters (ancient Chinese Daoist movement orig. known as The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice) ➜ 五斗米道