Vocabulary

expert; skilled hand; master

signet ring cell

mineral water

reporting, contacting, and consultation

inverted sentence

children's book

humor; humour; wit

unjustified; unwarranted; unfounded; baseless; groundless

swallow

swallow

money tree; gold mine; cash cow

swallow chick

to make absolutely sure that there are no omissions

dawn; daybreak

end of last year

chamber concerto; concerto di camera

intentionally; on purpose; deliberately; taking something into account

great shock

expert; skilled hand

unorthodox reading of kanji (in compounds)

fansub; fansubbing; fan-translated subtitles for a foreign film or TV show; film or TV show translated and subtitled by fans

adjustment of debts; debt-workout; consolidation of debts; settlement of debts

gabbeh (type of Persian carpet); gabbe; gava; khersak

loudspeaker system; PA system

sharing a room, flat, apartment, or house (with roommates, flatmates, etc.)

reader; (website) visitor

borrowing something without returning it; mooching; welching

to get an upset stomach; to have diarrhea

to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut

to be tonsured; to have one's head shaved

skill in go or shogi

tabletop game; table game

ranking system based on dan and kyu (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)

ranking system based on dan and kyu (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)

multicore

drawn game; impasse

drunken elephant piece, used in some variants of shogi

rearrangement; reorganization; recounting (an event)

stroke in a Chinese character

Zhuang (language)