Vocabulary

feces and urine; excreta; human waste

feces; faeces; excrement; stool

tank for holding excreta (often used for fertilizer); night soil vat; night soil reservoir

tank for holding human waste (used for fertilizer); night-soil reservoir; cesspool; cesspit

lucky shot; fluke

meaning of a sentence

school festival; cultural festival; annual open day school event showcasing student talent

humanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts

literary work

literary history; history of literature

literary prize

sentence pattern

literary criticism; book review

Renaissance

seventh month of the lunar calendar

publish in paperback

small-format paperback book; pocket paperback

corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text

character information; character data; textual data

character reader

character string

Manjushri; Manjusri; Bodhisattva that represents transcendent wisdom

Manjusri (bodhisattva)

responsibility for wording of an article

phrase; clause; basic linguistic unit in Japanese grammar

number of phrases

writing style

Minister of Education

civilized society; civilised society

illiteracy

hear-no-evil monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)

reasonableness (esp. of children); obedience

Fire Horse (43rd term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1906, 1966, 2026)

Pinyin (Chinese romanization system)

occurring simultaneously

parallel railways

classifying together

reading (two or more books, etc.) at the same time; subscribing to multiple newspapers

complication (in illness)

having both (at the same time); possessing together