Vocabulary

pet dog; non-sporting dog

wage slave

Saturn (planet)

father

father; male parent

faint smile

chuckle; snigger; laughing secretly

first laugh of the year

faint smile; half smile

laughing by oneself

snicker; snigger; ridiculing laughter

five characters; five letters

squid

hiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"

ogham; ogham script

sushi

cross-wise writing; alphabet usually written horizontally

mirror writing

multibyte character

Chinese characters; kanji

Japanese syllabary symbols; kana

idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words

Khitan people; Khitai; Kitan; Kidan

Khitan script

Jurchen script

silver-gilt letters; silvery letters

Cretan script (Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B)

hieroglyph

quipu; khipu; talking knots

pre-sectarian Buddhism; the earliest Buddhism; original Buddhism

koi carp

control character

single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts

fish; mackerel

Sinai inscriptions; proto-Sinaitic script

triangular pattern of objects

hamsa; palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa

phonetic symbol; phonogram

Tangut script

snot bubble