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in large drops

2

to spill; to drop; to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show

7

half a year; six months

13

January; first month of the lunar calendar

4

night school; evening school; evening class; night study

8

(act of) encouragement; stimulus; incentive

1

dinner; evening meal

3

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

22

facing; opposite; across the street; other side

3

Sinology; study of China or of the Chinese classics

2

every evening; every night

2

old woman

1

student (esp. a university student)

5

younger brother

1

hill; height; knoll; rising ground

3

large bird; peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish); fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)

1

east

2

about; concerning; related to; -ish

5

kindly face

1

cotton (material); red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)

2

(family) crest; coat of arms; pattern; figure

2

haori (Japanese formal coat)

4

manners; courtesy; etiquette

3

to correct; to rectify; to reform; to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust

1

mulberry (tree)

2

small desk

3

textbook; coursebook; schoolbook

1

China; Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man

2

wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line

3

unofficial history

1

outline history

1

excerpt; extract; annotation; shō (unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml)

1

to become (a state, condition, etc.)

4

the Analects of Confucius (one of the Four Books)

1

reading (a text) aloud without trying to understand it

3

book in Japanese; book bound in the Japanese style

2

page

2

difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

1

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

7

cinnabar; vermillion; red pigment (and ink made from same); red text (as used to correct documents)

5

Chinese paper

2

smallpox vaccination; inoculation against smallpox

1

to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily

1

portion; section; part

4

to paste; to stick; to affix; to station; to post

1

here and there; little by little; sporadically; dots; spots

1

to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

3

red-blossomed plum tree; red Japanese apricot

1

elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy

1

eight o'clock

2