{
  "_meta": {
    "version": "v1-DRAFT",
    "domain": "<!-- finance / legal / technical / medical / political -->",
    "freeze_after_iteration": 3,
    "freeze_status": "DRAFT",
    "note": [
      "Once freeze_status='FROZEN', NO new terms accepted.",
      "All translation rounds MUST consult this glossary before producing any text.",
      "Conflicts: report to user, do NOT silently re-translate."
    ]
  },

  "policy": [
    {
      "term_en": "<!-- ENGLISH_TERM -->",
      "term_cn": "<!-- TRANSLATED_TERM -->",
      "category": "policy",
      "note": "Star (*) marks required terms; describe context / first-use vs subsequent-use rule."
    }
  ],

  "finance": [
    {
      "term_en": "<!-- ENGLISH_TERM -->",
      "term_cn": "<!-- TRANSLATED_TERM -->",
      "category": "finance",
      "note": "Star (*) marks required terms; preserve abbreviations / currency conversions / etc."
    }
  ],

  "technical": [
    {
      "term_en": "<!-- ENGLISH_TERM -->",
      "term_cn": "<!-- TRANSLATED_TERM -->",
      "category": "technical",
      "note": "Preserve casing for code identifiers / API names."
    }
  ],

  "proper_noun": [
    {
      "term_en": "<!-- AUTHOR_NAME -->",
      "term_cn": "<!-- AUTHOR_NAME (same — preserve English) -->",
      "category": "proper_noun",
      "note": "Star (*) NEVER invent target-language names for English authors. Preserve English. Same rule for company names, product names, and place names without a standard target-language translation."
    },
    {
      "term_en": "Shanghai",
      "term_cn": "上海",
      "category": "proper_noun",
      "note": "Standard CN translation exists; use it."
    }
  ],

  "punctuation": [
    {
      "rule": "preserve_chinese_quotes",
      "description": "Chinese quotation marks 「」『』 must be preserved; do NOT replace with \"...\" "
    },
    {
      "rule": "preserve_percent_ranges",
      "description": "'around 5%' / '4.5-5.0%' keep number format + % sign + dash style"
    }
  ]
}