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  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl
HSK 7-9
Washington (name) / George Washington (1732-1799), first US president / Washington, US State / Washington, D.C. (US federal capital)
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa
D size battery
grade 4 / fourth class / category D
coup d'état
to fail to accomplish / unsuccessful (attempt); abortive (coup d'état); attempted (murder, suicide); unfulfilled (wish)
Roosevelt (name) / Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909 / Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945
to act for sb else / to act on sb's behalf / an agent / a diplomatic representative / a chargé d'affaires
Georgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its basketball team
aspiration (phonetics, explosion of breath on consonants distinguishing Chinese p, t from b, d)
(PRC) (D- or C-class) high-speed train / power car / multiple-unit train (abbr. for 動車組|动车组)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961
names of the notes of a musical scale (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi)
appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre
I.D. number
(in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan, cooker etc) setting; mode
it'd be a wonder if... (following a verb phrase that is usually negative)
fundamental doctrine / guiding principle / raison d'être
depleted uranium (D-38)
D-class (high-speed) sleeper train (D stands for Dongche 動車|动车) (abbr. for 臥鋪動車組列車|卧铺动车组列车)
Washington D.C. (US federal capital)
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
In Search of Modern China by Jonathan D Spence 史景遷|史景迁
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, R&D center in Pasadena, California
Jonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The Search for Modern China 追尋現代中國|追寻现代中国
(slang) the norm; typical behavior; nothing out of the ordinary; just what you'd expect (often used ironically) (abbr. for 基本操作)
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast (Tw)
apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t)
(loanword) coup d'état
hepatitis D
lit. if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (saying) / fig. (of a person) too slow; can't keep up
91 BC attempted coup d'etat against Emperor Wu of Han 漢武帝|汉武帝, beginning with accusations of witchcraft
to verify / (math.) Q.E.D.
François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664-1741), French Jesuit missionary to Kangxi court
S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician / also pr. [Po1 song1]
(loanword) coup d'état
Washington, D.C. / the US federal government
Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English / also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan
variant of 身份證號碼|身份证号码 / I.D. number
D'Alembert (1717-1783), French mathematician
I'd like to hear the details


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