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Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Brutus (name)
Rotorua, city in New Zealand
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
Brooklyn Bridge
Anglo-Saxon
Zulu people
Wuqia county in Xinjiang / name of county in Xinjiang from early 20th century now called Wuqia 烏恰縣|乌恰县
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also called 檀香山
(Mount) Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains, southwest Russia
Georgia (country)
Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet
Rouen (France)
Zulu
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Island, off the California coast
coarse / crude (in one's manner) / boorish
HSK 7-9
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific (Tw)
Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times
Brunei Darussalam
Bloomsbury, London district
Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), prime minister of Canada 1980-1984 and 1968-1979 / Justin Trudeau (1971-), prime minister of Canada from 2015
crude and ill-educated (idiom)
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
Cthulhu, fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft
Ruhr River, a tributary of the Rhine in Germany
Bruges (Dutch Brugge), medieval town in Belgium
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi
Innsbruck, city in Austria
blues (music) (loanword)
Bosphorus
the Bosphorus (strait)
Peru
Holbrook (name) / Richard C.A. Holbrooke (1941-2010), US diplomat, influential in brokering 1995 Dayton Bosnian peace deal, US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009
the Louvre
Brutus (name) / Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), late Roman Republic politician who conspired against Julius Caesar / Lucius Junius Brutus (6th c. BC), founder of the Roman Republic
Subaru
robust (loanword) / solid
Ürümqi, prefecture-level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Uluru, massive sandstone outcrop in central Australia
Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *魯* | 魯* | *魯
surname Lu / Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东
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  *魯* | 魯* | *魯
(bound form) crass / stupid / rude / (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)
Yale
Kailu, a county in Tongliao City 通遼市|通辽市, Inner Mongolia
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
Aruba, island in the Caribbean, a self-governing part of the Netherlands
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
the Turpan Depression in Xinjiang
Proudhonism, 19th century socialist theory
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
Lu Zijing or Lu Su 魯肅|鲁肃 (172-217), statesman, diplomat and strategist of Eastern Wu 東吳|东吴
Bosphorus
guru (loanword)
root beer
Shandong cuisine
dull-witted; foolish
Andrew (name)
Cyrus (name)
Tergüel or Teruel, Spain
Anglo-
person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person
Lushan, a county in Pingdingshan City 平頂山市|平顶山市, Henan
robustness
Brookhaven National Laboratory
History of Kingdom Lu / refers to the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋
Brucella (infectious disease)
Maulana Fazlullah, Pakistan Taleban leader
(Tw) (slang) (loanword) loser
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
Brussels, capital of Belgium
the lord of Lu (who declined to employ Confucius)
Rhythm and Blues R&B
Örebro (city in Sweden)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
Rukai, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Taroko, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Rubik's cube / magic cube
Turpan, prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
kuru (medicine)
Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
the Ruhr, region in Germany
(loanword) lute
Ludian county in Zhaotong 昭通, Yunnan
Rubin (name) / Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton
Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
alternative name for Shandong 山東|山东
Kota Bharu, city in Malaysia on border with Thailand, capital of Kelantan sultanate

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