Vocabulary

third quarter (of a year)

second quarter (of a year)

first quarter (of a year, sports game, etc.)

advisory board

New Year holidays

subclinical; asymptomatic; without symptoms

ditch; drain; gutter; trench

underskirt; petticoat

to battle; to fight; to quarrel

namer; author (of a scientific name)

novelty goods

thermal transfer printing

(printing, etc.) plate cost

touch (of an object, when touching it with one's fingers)

to be moved to emotion; to be lost to emotion; to be swept away by one's emotions

exomoon; extrasolar moon

meningococcal meningitis; cerebrospinal meningitis

septic meningitis; purulent meningitis; suppurative meningitis

loop-mediated isothermal amplification; LAMP

deep pan; sauté pan

Okhotsk culture

Satsumon culture

brush-mark pattern (scraped into the surface of earthenware with wood)

crops planted to stave off famine (e.g., wheat, barley, buckwheat, potatoes); emergency crops

going out in search of plum blossoms; plum-blossom viewing

two dimensional code (e.g. QR code); 2D barcode; matrix barcode

two dimensional code (e.g. QR code); 2D barcode; matrix barcode

parallel import; grey import; gray import

marvel

movie theater showing a (particular) movie; cinema showing a film

to develop feelings (for); to become attached (to)

agricultural people

hair donation

admission fee (at the theatre, etc.)

60th birthday celebration (usu. celebrated with a banquet-style meal while dressed in a red hat and vest symbolizing one's return to infancy)

snowy mountain; permanently snow-covered mountain

vaccination rate; inoculation rate

flatbed cylinder press

made in China; Chinese-made

joint venture of government and business; business venture financed jointly by the public and private sectors; semi-public sector