(Traditional Japanese) unit of area / courtyard

看板娘: an attractive girl or young woman who stands outside a store to attract customers

麻婆豆腐: mapo doufu - a hot chilli cuisine from Szechuan.

母国語: mother tongue

love is blind, one will overlook the shortcomings of someone they love

main, important / valuable / notable

綿埃: cotton dust, dustball, fluff

金聾: completely deaf

聾桟敷: being kept uninformed, being kept in the dark; the upper gallery where the dialogue is not heard well (of a theatre)

loneliness; solitude / (archaic, literally) solitary monk