Glossary

APTX 4869

APTX 4869

Experimental poison created by Ai Haibara for the Black Organization. See main article.

Baijiu

Baijiu (Chinese: 白酒; pinyin: báijiǔ), or shaojiu (烧酒) is a Chinese distilled alcoholic beverage. See main article.

DL

Deputy Lieutenant.

Golden Week

Golden Week (ゴールデンウィーク ,Gōruden Wīku), also known as Ōgata renkyū (大型連休 ) or Ōgon shūkan (黄金週間 ), is a Japanese term applied to the period containing a number of almost successive public holidays. See main article.

Kanji

Kanji (漢字 ) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana (ひらがな, 平仮名), katakana (カタカナ, 片仮名), Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet (known as the Romanization of Japanese, or "Rōmaji").

Seiyū

Seiyū (声優 ) is Japanese for "voice actor".

Shōnen

Shōnen (少年 ,少年), shonen, or shounen, is a Kanji word literally meaning few years and generally referring to a typical boy, from elementary school through high school age. Shōnen manga is a popular genre of Japanese comics, generally about action/fighting but often contains a sense of humor and strong growing friendship-bonds between the characters.

Tankōbon (or Tankoubon)

Tankōbon (単行本 ), with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series, though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series.

Yen

The yen (円 ,en) (sign: ¥; code: JPY) is the currency of Japan.