Kamus Bahasa Jepang, Mandarin, dan Korea

careful; diligent; firm

scabbard

Ji River, former river of north-eastern China which disappeared after the Yellow River flooded in 1852

(Buddhism) disciple

braid on a robe

to get sth done once and for all

investigative reporter

distant relative

tranquil; peaceful

autumn exam (triennial provincial exam during Ming and Qing)

(literary) public funds

to strengthen one's body; to keep fit; to build up one's health (through exercise, nutrition etc)

to be really busy; pressing business

Ministry of Foreign Affairs; foreign office; Dept. of State

(loanword) dacquoise (a French dessert)

(lit.) to have swallowed gunpowder; (fig.) to be ablaze with anger; ornery; snappy

Nanxi, a district of Yibin City 宜賓市|宜宾市[Yi2 bin1 Shi4], Sichuan

no time to deal with it (idiom); caught unprepared

rotary hammer; hammer drill

South Australia, Australian state

flour

the Ferghana Valley (in Uzbekistan, central Asia)

extreme and inflexible; fixated; stubborn in clinging to a notion; (psychology) paranoid

alternately; repeatedly