Vocabulary

Wellington boots

chatbot

poor thing!; pour soul!; what a pity!

flooding a company, organization etc. with phone complaints (usu. loosely organized on anonymous online message boards)

eat-in tax evasion; paying less consumption tax by buying take-out food, then eating it in the store

excessive complaining from customers; harassment by a customer; customer harassment

dominant-party system; one-party dominant system

Cangjie input method (for Chinese)

input method; input system

input method

greater

volcanic cone

input method

attention economy

harmful website; malicious website

fermented tofu; furu

rhizophore

also known as; also called

festival tabi; strong, rubber-soled footwear worn by festival participants

more and more; increasingly; all the more

Yami people; Tao people

hair removal using pulsed light

looking worse after putting up one's hair (when coming of age)

looking better after putting up one's hair (when coming of age)

true to one's name; living up to one's name

bhangra (genre)

drawing eyes (esp. on a daruma doll)

travel industry

day-after festival; night-after festival; (smaller) festival held the day (or night) after the main festival

shear (e.g. wind shear)

desire for money for one's enjoyment (esp. as a motive for a crime)

running out of energy; running out of strength

dried immature orange (used in Chinese traditional medicine)

with a light thud

to make a lucky hit; to win against the odds; to anticipate correctly

to disappear; to vanish; to bolt; to go into hiding

with a flap; with a snap; with a thud; with a crash; with a swish; with a rustle

excess earning power

magpie

okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)