Meanings

sihu (4-stringed Chinese musical instrument played with a bow)

yehu (bowed Chinese instrument with a coconut-shell body)

Sixteen Kingdoms (collection of sovereign states in and around China; 304-439 CE)

suspicious

speckled butterflyfish (Chaetodon citrinellus)

Buckleya lanceolata (species of parasitic deciduous shrub)

battledore

titan triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens)

mangrove jack (Lutjanus argentimaculatus)

dish dressed with sesame sauce

walnut oil

sesame vinegar

newly harvested sesame seeds

hutong (narrow street or alley in a traditional residential area of a Chinese city, esp. Beijing)

sesame lignan

common walnut (Juglans regia)

barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China

barbarian territory

northern barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China

unicorn-plant (Proboscidea louisianica)