華

China

bright and beautiful

extravagant

business district

splendid

overseas Chinese

Chinese cooking

Chinatown

Republic of China

Washington, D.C. (United States)

brilliant

People's Republic of China

flower arrangement

sublimation

essence

prosperity

Lotus Sutra

peerage (in Japan; 1869-1947)

to become brilliant

lotus flower

Anemone raddeana (species of anemone flower)

ethnic Chinese (living abroad, esp. with non-Chinese citizenship)

central China

Chinese noodles (esp. ramen)

sweet crescent-shaped confection of pancake-like sponge cake filled with adzuki paste

Chinese dumpling

authentic Chinese food (served at a Chinese-run restaurant)

Japan and the Republic of China

simple, inexpensive Chinese restaurant

splendor

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

national pride

Xinhua News Agency

North China

flowery words

capital

Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.)

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

algal bloom

Nichiren sect

gendaika

Washington, DC

monument at cemetery entrance

concerning Taiwan

Chunghwa Telecom

Jinhua ham (special Chinese ham)

Sinocentrism

kaleidoscope

chilled Chinese noodles

aristocratic class system

Washington (state)

South China

Seika Corporation

Tsinghua University

Chinese restaurant

Koka Women's College (former name)

Buddhist service in which the eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra are read one scroll at a time (one morning and one evening reading each day for four days with a different reciter each time)

China Airlines

influx of Chinese pop culture (into Japan)

Hokke Shinto (Shinto doctrines based on Nichiren Buddhism)

Chinese merchants abroad

Chinese character

chee fah

Huazhong University of Science & Technology

South China University of Technology

Chinese (language)

Chinese restaurant

The Huaxia Times

wok

to seek results, not show

special guests

flower of chivalry (Bushido)

Fahrenheit temperature

South China Agricultural University

National Tsing Hua University

Chinese newspaper

Nichiren sect of Buddhism (sometimes specifically referring to the Hokke school of Nichiren)

Greater China (incl. Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and sometimes Singapore)

volcanic sublimate

Kyoto Seika University

widespread fires in Edo (often after earthquakes)

Avatamska sutra

dye sublimation printer

ceramics with a blue pattern on a white background

Huaxia Bank

Les Fleurs du mal

service celebrating the birth of the Buddha (held on April 8)

sublimation printing

Center China Normal University

Huaxia (historical concept of China)

Kyoto Kacho University

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Kyoto Koka Women's University

Chinese chef's knife (resembles a cleaver)

cobalt bloom

flashiness

unappealing

tea ceremony and flower arranging

Huawei

flowers and incense (given as a Buddhist offering)

flowers and incense (given as a Buddhist offering)

empty show

60th birthday

heat of sublimation

Huaqiao University

South China Normal University

to live in splendor

rite of scattering flowers

bowl of rice topped with a chop-suey-like mixture

Chinese-style fried dish

ultra-luxurious

Kegon (sect of Buddhism)

luxury cruise ship

anthology (of poems)

luxury liner

deluxe edition

travertine

lotus seat (under Buddhist statues)

visions of glory

avatamsa (flower adornment, as a metaphor for becoming a buddha)

ladies' pavilion (of the inner Heian Palace)

wealth, rank, and arrogant splendor

beautiful dew

thermal wax transfer

overseas Chinese (esp. after 1978)

Lotus Sutra

bustle

Chinese restaurant syndrome

Chinese noodles

Glory to the Sutra

world of ikebana

Chinese dunce cap (species of succulent plant, Orostachys iwarenge)

udumbara (mythical Indian plant often identified with the cluster fig, Ficus glomerata)

grandiose and splendid

zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

overseas Chinese (esp. before 1978)

Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)

ceramic spoon

wedding ceremony

fires and fistfights are the flowers of Edo

court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace)

zinc white

deposition (phase transition)

bright light

aristocracy

The Great (e.g. in film and book titles)

flowers of sulfur

frivolity

dainty

bleeding heart