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  *套* | 套* | *套
to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ)
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  *派* | 派* | *派
(literary) tributary; branch of a river / clique; school; group; faction / (bound form) style; manner / to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by ) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie
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  *柔* | 柔* | *柔
soft / flexible / supple / yielding / rho (Greek letter Ρρ)
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  *凯* | 凯* | *凯
(bound form) triumphal music / (Tw) (coll.) generous with money; lavish in spending / chi (Greek letter Χχ)
Athens, capital of Greece
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  *潘* | 潘* | *潘
surname Pan / Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)
(loanword) gamma (Greek letter Γγ)
Medusa (monster of Greek mythology)
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  *纽* | 纽* | *纽
to turn / to wrench / button / nu (Greek letter Νν)
sigma (Greek letter Σσ) / (symbol for standard deviation in statistics)
Ephesus, city of ancient Greece
Titan (race of deities in Greek mythology, moon of Saturn etc)
Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher
Homer, poet of ancient Greece
Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology
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  *伽* | 伽* | *伽
used in the transliteration of Greek letters
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  *谬* | 谬* | *谬
(bound form) false; erroneous; absurd / mu (Greek letter Μμ)
Greece
Poseidon, Greek god of the sea / Neptune, Roman god of the sea / Aquaman, DC comic book superhero / (slang) womanizer / player
omega (Greek letter Ωω)
Poseidon, god of the sea in Greek mythology
Olympia (Greece)
Heracles (Greek mythology) / Hercules (Roman mythology)
Bacchus (the Greek god of wine), aka Dionysus
Bacchus, Greek god of wine
a city state (Greek polis)
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head) / I don't understand a word (idiom) / it's all Greek to me
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine
Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
Adonis, figure in Greek mythology
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
Aeschylus (c. 524 BC -c. 455 BC), Greek tragedian, author of The Persians, Seven against Thebes etc
zeta (Greek letter Ζζ)
kappa (Greek letter Κκ)
theta (Greek letter Θθ)
Muse (Greek mythology)
mu (Greek letter Μμ)
a faun; (esp.) Pan, son of Hermes in Greek mythology
Greek language
beta (Greek letter Ββ)
xi or ksi (Greek letter Ξξ)
Oceanus, a Titan in Greek mythology
psi (Greek letter Ψψ)
ancient Greece
Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece
Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence
laurel crown / victory garland (in Greek and Western culture)
Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and storyteller, supposed author of Aesop's fables
Ares, Greek god of war / Mars
goat-man / faun of Greek mythology
Corinth, a city-state of ancient Greece / Corinth, a modern city in Greece / (name) Collins
Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅, academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
Greek alphabet
iota (Greek letter Ιι)
Greek literature
Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
Euclid of Alexandria (c. 300 BC), Greek geometer and author of the Elements 幾何原本|几何原本
omicron (Greek letter)
nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
god of thunder (Chinese Leigong 雷公, Norse Thor 索爾|索尔, Greek Zeus 宙斯 etc)
Hermes (Greek god)
Thebes, place name in ancient Egypt / Thebes, ancient Greek city state
Rhea (Titaness of Greek mythology)
Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece
Ancient Greek (language)
Ithaca, a Greek island / Ithaca, New York, location of Cornell University 康奈爾大學|康奈尔大学
Acheron River in Epirus, northwest Greece
Pindar, Greek poet
Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir to Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan / formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islamic writers
Hermes, in Greek mythology, messenger of the Gods
Cronus (Titan of Greek mythology)
Hecate (goddess of Greek mythology)
He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom). / Be careful not to trust foreigners. / Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC / Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒玫
Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea 愛琴海|爱琴海)
Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
zeta (Greek letter Ζζ)
Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love
eta (Greek letter Ηη)
epsilon (Greek letter Εε)
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), Greek polymath
omega (Greek letter Ωω)
Onassis (name) / Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975), Greek shipping magnate
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus Rex
eta (Greek letter Ηη)
Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology) / Atlas mountains of north Africa
Thucydides (c. 455 - c. 400 BC), Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
Corfu (Greek: Kerkira), island in the Ionian sea
Kefalonia, Greek Island in the Ionian sea
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
xi or ksi (Greek letter Ξξ)
(Protestantism) Corinth, city in Greece
Aeolus, Greek God of winds
omicron (Greek letter Οο)
Oceanus, a Titan in Greek mythology

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