Pyongyang (the capital city of North Korea)

10²⁸ in modern Japanese since 17th century.

sketch book

commonness, ordinariness, usuality / normality

a male given name

a surname

to cede (a territory)

cession (of territory)

(linguistics) a morphological change of an initial syllable of the second kanji under the influence of the historical coda of the first kanji in a word, such as 天皇, whose pronunciation is not *ten’ō but tennō.

System where the crew members of an anchored ship are divided in half, where half the crew remain on watch duty, while the other half land on shore.