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| | Arabic (language) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅 | |
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| | abbr. for country names that begin with 阿: Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚, Afghanistan 阿富汗 etc | |
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| | prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4] | |
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| | (literary) to flatter; to curry favor with | |
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| | Ah Q, antihero of Lu Xun's influential 1921 novella The True Story of Ah Q 阿Q 正傳|阿Q 正传 | |
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| | Adelaide, capital of South Australia | |
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| | Saudi Arabia | |
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| | Ali (name) / Ali (c. 600-661), the fourth caliph of Islam / Ngari prefecture in Tibet | |
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| | Argentina | |
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| | Apollo (loanword) | |
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| | Arabian / Arabic / Arab | |
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| | Aqsu wilayiti or Aksu prefecture in Xinjiang / Aqsu shehiri or Aksu city | |
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| | Oman | |
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| | Armani (fashion designer) | |
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| | Aston Martin | |
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| | Adidas (sportswear company) | |
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| | Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| | Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights | |
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| | Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company | |
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| | Azerbaijan | |
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| | Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean | |
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| | Alaska, US state | |
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| | Miami (Florida) | |
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| | Astana, capital of Kazakhstan | |
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| | Aral shehiri (Aral city) or Ālā'ěr subprefecture level city in west Xinjiang | |
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| | Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands | |
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| | Abuja, capital of Nigeria | |
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| | Alcatel, old company name | |
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| | AstraZeneca (British-Swedish pharmaceutical company) | |
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| | Albania | |
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| | Arxan, county-level city, Mongolian Rashaant xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟, east Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE) | |
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| | Almaty, previous capital of Kazakhstan | |
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| | Arsenal Football Club | |
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| | Algeria | |
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| | Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition | |
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| | Afghanistan | |
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| | Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011 | |
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| | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist and author of Brave New World 美麗新世界|美丽新世界 | |
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| | amoxicillin (loanword) | |
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| | Alxa League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia (abbr. for 阿拉善盟) | |
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| | Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮|马尔康镇 / also Ngawa county | |
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| | Dong'e county in Liaocheng 聊城, Shandong | |
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| | Ariane (name) / Ariane European space launch vehicle | |
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| | Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician / (math.) abelian | |
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| | donkey-hide gelatin (used in TCM) / Taiwan pr. [a1 jiao1] | |
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| | Alxa league, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) | |
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| | Acapulco, city in Mexico | |
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| | granny / mother-in-law | |
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| | Alicante | |
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| | Aalen, town in Germany | |
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| | Arthur (name) | |
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| | Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang | |
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| | alps (mountain range) | |
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| | younger sister | |
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| | Alsace, French department | |
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| | the Effendi (Nasreddin), the hero of folk tales of the Muslim world, known for his wisdom and humor | |
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| | grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father | |
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| | (familiar) elder brother | |
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| | Arabian Sea | |
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| | Atush or Artux city and county in Qizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州 / Atushi city near Kashgar in Xinjiang | |
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| | (derog.) an Indian | |
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| | Abbas (name) / Mahmoud Abbas (1935-), also called Abu Mazen, Palestinian leader, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 2005 | |
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| | atropine C17H23NO3, alkaloid drug derived from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) | |
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| | Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia | |
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| | Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland) | |
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| | amoeba (loanword) | |
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| | Albert (name) | |
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| | Renoir (name) / Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter | |
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| | flattering and fawning (idiom) / sweet-talking | |
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| | (Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells | |
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| | opium (loanword) | |
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| | Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | amen (loanword) | |
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| | Aketedu county in Xinjiang (on the border with Kyrgyzstan) | |
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| | upright and plainspoken | |
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| | Atkins (name) | |
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| | Amitabha Buddha / the Buddha of the Western paradise / may the lord Buddha preserve us! / merciful Buddha! | |
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| | Abba (Aramaic word father) / by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel | |
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| | (dialect) father | |
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| | Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), Italian scientist | |
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| | Alian District, a rural district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan | |
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| | elder brother | |
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| | Abdullah (name) | |
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| | Agatha Christie | |
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| | Arkansas, US state | |
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| | (old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather | |
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| | surname Armstrong | |
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| | (coll.) any Tom, Dick or Harry; just about anyone (used dismissively) | |
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| | Abidjan (city in Ivory Coast) | |
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| | dad / father / (paternal) grandfather / old man | |
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| | Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat 亞西爾·阿拉法特|亚西尔·阿拉法特 | |
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| | Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿 | |
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| | Avat nahiyisi (Awat county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang | |
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| | (onom.) a-choo (sound of a sneeze) | |
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| | Afar region of northeast Ethiopia / Afar people | |
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