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HSK
common / ordinary / general / average
HSK 2
Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
HSK 2
universal / general / widespread / common
HSK 3
to spread extensively / to generalize / widespread / popular / universal / ubiquitous / pervasive
HSK 3
college entrance exam (especially as abbr. for 普通高等學校招生全國統一考試|普通高等学校招生全国统一考试) / (Tw) entrance exam for senior government service posts (abbr. for 公務人員高等考試|公务人员高等考试)
HSK 6
popularization of science (abbr. for 科學普及|科学普及) / (attributive) popular science / (coll.) to explain in layperson's terms
HSK 7-9
Jeep (car brand)
HSK 7-9
ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street
HSK 7-9
Pristina, capital of Kosovo 科索沃
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
a cake of tea, commonly Pu'er tea 普洱茶, compacted into a bowl or nest shape / dome shaped tea-brick / caked tea
Sharp Corporation
Skopje, capital of North Macedonia
(bird species of China) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka)
Acapulco, city in Mexico
Southampton, town in south England
Providence, capital of Rhode Island
(bird species of China) common loon (Gavia immer)
Przevalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) of Central Asia
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general / popular / everywhere / universal
(bird species of China) common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Maputo, capital of Mozambique
Epson, Japanese electronics company
Prussia (historical German state)
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
Princeton University
Hewlett-Packard
(Buddhism, Daoism) to deliver all sentient beings from suffering / (Tw) a ritual of making offerings, esp. to wandering spirits rather than gods or ancestors (abbr. for 中元普渡)
(bird species of China) common swift (Apus apus)
(medicine) general surgery (abbr. for 普通外科)
census / general survey / general investigation / reconnaissance survey
Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth
Punjab state of India / Punjab province of Pakistan
Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology
Putuo district of Zhoushan city 舟山市, Zhejiang
(bird species of China) common merganser (Mergus merganser)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Simpson (name)
Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia / see also 川建國|川建国
Simao city in Yunnan, renamed Pu'er city 普洱市 in 2007
Phuket (city in Thailand)
(of sunlight) to bathe all things; to shine gloriously
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
Plymouth
Provence (south of France)
Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), great Russian romantic poet
to disseminate knowledge of the law
Guangdong pidgin (a mix of Standard Mandarin and Cantonese)
everybody celebrating together / universal celebration / universal rejoicing
Pilates (physical fitness system)
Jinggu Dai and Yi autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱, Yunnan
Preston, city in England
universal suffrage
Cape Town (city in South Africa)
Price (name)
Pula (city in Croatia)
Praia, capital of Cape Verde
Pu'er tea, a type of black tea produced in the Pu'er region of southwestern Yunnan
precipitation over a large area / widespread rain
(name) Thompson
Antwerp (city in Belgium)
Uppsala, Swedish university city just north of Stockholm
Bridgestone (tire company)
Yopurgha nahiyisi (Yopurga county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Springfield
Plotinus (204-270), Neoplatonism philosopher
Johns Hopkins University
Prodi (surname)
Dopod (company name)
wet piling, aka wet pile fermentation (a stage in the production of certain types of tea, notably 熟普洱茶, ripe Pu'er tea)
Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音|观音 (Avalokiteśvara)
general education
Gipuzkoa or Guipúzcoa, one of the seven Basque provinces in north Spain
Bosphorus
Tripura (Indian state)
(bird species of China) brown-cheeked rail (Rallus indicus)
epsilon (Greek letter Ε, ε)
Jingdong Yi Autonomous County in Pu'er 普洱市, Yunnan
The Simpsons (US TV series)
Donald Trump (1946–), American businessman and politician, US president 2017–2021 and 2025– / see also 背後捅刀|背后捅刀 and 落井下石
Donald Trump (informal alternative to 特朗普) / (linguistics) Sichuan-accented Mandarin (abbr. for 四川普通話|四川普通话) / see also 背後捅刀|背后捅刀 and 落井下石
proletariat (loanword) / abbr. for 普羅列塔利亞|普罗列塔利亚
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old variant of
Thorpe (name)
Standard and Poor (share index) / abbr. for 標準普爾|标准普尔
ordinary / mediocre / nothing special
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner
inclusive; accessible and affordable for everyone
Ximeng Va autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱, Yunnan
psi (Greek letter Ψψ)
São Tomé and Príncipe
(idiom) sunlight shines over all things / drenched in sunlight
census
(Buddhism) to deliver all living creatures from suffering (idiom)
(hist.) title of the Tibetan Tufan ruler

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