East Asia Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. An area's original inhabitants
  2. 5. Of the same or similar kind of
  3. 6. A pictorial character or symbol that represents a specific meaning or idea
  4. 8. Fine yellowish-brown top soil made up of particles of silt and clay
  5. 9. Divergence Separation of peoples or societies with regard to beliefs, values, and customs
  6. 11. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers, especially China
  7. 12. A violent storm that forms in the pacific, usually in late summer
Down
  1. 1. In medieval Japan, a class of professional soldiers who lived by a strict code of personal honor
  2. 2. Japanese term for huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
  3. 3. A group or chain of islands
  4. 4. Seasonal wind that brings warm, moist air from the oceans in summer and cold dry air from inland in winter
  5. 7. One who believes there's no God
  6. 9. Hearth A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward
  7. 10. Current A warm-water ocean current that adds water and moisture to the winter monsoons
  8. 13. Form of Japanese poetry originally consisting of 17 syllables and three lines, often about nature