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suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy

suspicious-looking; fishy

pepper

to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels

walnut (Juglans spp., esp. Juglans regia)

suspicious

barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China

to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels

sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)

sesame seeds; sesame (Sesamum indicum)

butterfly

salt and pepper; seasoning with salt and pepper

sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)

cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

moth orchid (Phalaenopsis aphrodite)

black pepper (Piper nigrum)

artists' chalk; white pigment; powdered calcium carbonate

gomasio; gomashio; roasted sesame seed and salt mixture; salt-and-pepper hair; dark hair streaked with gray

kokyū; 3 or 4-stringed bowed Japanese musical instrument; any Asian string instrument played with a bow

to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over

dish dressed with sesame sauce

condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile)

to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over

erhu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow); erh hu

salt and pepper hair; dark hair streaked with gray

sesame seed

hutong; narrow street or alley, esp. in Beijing

sesame oil

condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile)

to butter up; to try to get on the good side of

white sesame seeds

goma tofu; tofu-like dish made with ground sesame paste

paste of miso, ground toasted sesame seeds, mirin, etc.

quiver (worn on the right hip; post-Nara period)

Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE); Sixteen Kingdoms period

oleaster (any plant of genus Elaeagnus); silverberry (US)

nutcracker; nutcrackers

barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China

wild sesame (Perilla frutescens var. frutescens); oilseed perilla; egoma

Manchurian walnut (Juglans mandshurica)

huqin (any Chinese string instrument played with a bow); (arch.) biwa (4 or 5-stringed Oriental lute)

carrot

sesame vinegar

calabash (Lagenaria siceraria)

northern barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China; foreigner; barbarian tribe

sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)

Japanese wing nut (Pterocarya rhoifolia)

to butter up; to try to get on the good side of

pepper shaker

sycophant; apple-polisher; flatterer; sesame seed grinding

condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile)

barbarian territory; barbarous land; uncivilized land (uncivilised)

perilla oil

hanky-panky; juggling; cheating; deception; smoke and mirrors

roasted sesame seeds

sycophant; apple-polisher; flatterer; sesame seed grinding

open sesame!

sesame sauce

quiver (worn on the right hip; post-Nara period)

walnut oil

calabash (Lagenaria siceraria)

Bupleurum root; Radix Bupleuri

roasted sesame seeds

sesame sauce

castor oil plant (Ricinus communis); castor oil bean

Wu Hu (five tribes that migrated into China in 300-500 CE: Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, Qiang)

ground toasted sesame seeds; ground sesame

dish dressed with sesame sauce

to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels

hornet; yellow jacket; wasp (of subfamily Vespinae); Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia); yak-killer hornet

Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus); northern sea lion

dish dressed with sesame sauce

body odor (odour); abnormal underarm odor

sesame sauce

sesame sauce

sesame sauce

open sesame!

paste of miso, ground toasted sesame seeds, mirin, etc.

yehu (bowed Chinese instrument with a coconut-shell body)

polypore (bracket fungus, esp. of family Polyporaceae)

ground toasted sesame seeds; ground sesame

ground toasted sesame seeds; ground sesame

coriander (Coriandrum sativum); cilantro

spotted seal (Phoca largha)

thief posing as fellow traveller (traveler)

Elaeagnus multiflora var. hortensis (variety of goumi)

jinghu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)

goumi (species of oleaster, Elaeagnus multiflora); cherry silverberry

tree nymph butterfly (Idea leuconoe)

roasted sesame seeds

white-spotted citrus longhorned beetle (Anoplophora malasiaca)

Campylaephora hypnaeoides (species of red algae); egonori

golden sesame (seeds)

silverthorn (species of oleaster, Elaeagnus pungens); thorny elaeagnus; thorny olive

capsicum; chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne; red pepper

rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax dentex)

North China barbarian nations

black speckles; small black spots (like sprinkled sesame)

Hu poplar; Populus euphratica

sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)

snub nose; flat nose with flattened nostrils

copper alloy with traces of silver, lead, or tin

battledore; hagoita

newly harvested sesame seeds

Hujiayuan Station

Siebold's arrowwood (Viburnum sieboldii)

blue mackerel (Scomber australasicus)

crescent sweetlips (species of fish, Plectorhinchus cinctus)

speckled butterflyfish (Chaetodon citrinellus, species of the Indo-Pacific); citron butterflyfish

speckled butterflyfish (Chaetodon citrinellus, species of the Indo-Pacific); citron butterflyfish

tiger moon shell (Natica tigrina)

Buckleya lanceolata (species of parasitic deciduous shrub)

titan triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens); giant triggerfish; moustache triggerfish

mangrove jack (Lutjanus argentimaculatus); mangrove red snapper

garden cress (Lepidium sativum)

sesame lignan

Indian long pepper (Piper longum); longpepper

common walnut (Juglans regia); Persian walnut; English walnut