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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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| | 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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| | Argentina | |
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| | Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011 / also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格 | |
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| | Apollo (loanword) | |
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| | Minneapolis, a nameplace in the USA, notably in Minnesota | |
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| | Arab / Arabian / Arabian people | |
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| | Miami (Florida) | |
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| | Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple | |
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| | Alxa League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia (abbr. for 阿拉善盟) | |
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| | Adam (name) / Aden, capital of Yemen | |
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| | donkey-hide gelatin (used in TCM) / Taiwan pr. [a1 jiao1] | |
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| | Alaska, US state | |
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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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| | Assad (Arabic name) | |
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| | United Arab Emirates (Tw) | |
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| | Alzheimer's disease / senile dementia | |
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| | Arabian / Arabic / Arab | |
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| | Arthur (name) | |
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| | aspirin (loanword) | |
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| | Dong'e county in Liaocheng 聊城, Shandong | |
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| | Abuja, capital of Nigeria | |
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| | Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang | |
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| | Acheng district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨 in Heilongjiang | |
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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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| | Aqsu Wilayiti or Aksu prefecture in Xinjiang | |
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| | Allah (Arabic name of God) | |
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| | (Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our | |
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| | Oman | |
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| | Acre, city in Israel, also known as Akko | |
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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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| | Alaska, US state | |
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| | Alan, Allen, Allan, Alain etc (name) / A-lan (Chinese female name) | |
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| | General Lü Meng 呂蒙|吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu) | |
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| | Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology | |
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| | atropine C17H23NO3, alkaloid drug derived from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) | |
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| | Assen, city in the Netherlands | |
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| | Altay prefecture in Xinjiang | |
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| | Assam, India | |
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| | Aruba, island in the Caribbean, a self-governing part of the Netherlands | |
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| | (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 | |
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| | Algeria | |
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| | Ali (name) / Ali (c. 600-661), the fourth caliph of Islam / Ngari prefecture in Tibet | |
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| | Aston Martin | |
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| | Aba, southeast Nigerian city / Aba, the Lisu 傈僳 word for grandfather | |
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| | Amitabha Buddha / the Buddha of the Western paradise / may the lord Buddha preserve us! / merciful Buddha! | |
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| | aspirin (loanword) (variant of 阿司匹林) | |
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| | Pakistan-Afghan | |
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| | Saudi Arabia (Tw) | |
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| | aspartame (loanword) | |
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| | Alfa Romeo | |
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| | alpha (Greek letter Αα) | |
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| | Albania | |
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| | The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅 | |
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| | Aqsu wilayiti or Aksu prefecture in Xinjiang / Aqsu shehiri or Aksu city | |
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| | Arun banner or Arongqi county in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Almaty, previous capital of Kazakhstan | |
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| | Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology) / Atlas mountains of north Africa | |
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| | Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands | |
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| | Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (Tw) | |
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| | Arkansas, US state | |
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| | Achang also called Ngac'ang or Maingtha (ethnic group) | |
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| | Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean | |
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| | grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father | |
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| | Ares, Greek god of war / Mars | |
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| | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | |
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| | Algiers, capital of Algeria | |
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| | Aalen, town in Germany | |
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| | Aketedu county in Xinjiang (on the border with Kyrgyzstan) | |
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| | Amis or Pangcah, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan | |
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| | younger sister | |
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| | Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights | |
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| | Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company | |
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| | Alabama, US state | |
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| | al-Qaeda | |
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| | (familiar) elder brother | |
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| | Arsenal Football Club | |
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| | Abby or Abi (name, sometimes short for Abigail) | |
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| | Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands (Tw) | |
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| | Azerbaijan | |
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| | Africa | |
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| | (idiom) (coll.) any Tom, Dick or Harry; just about anyone (used dismissively) | |
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| | General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war | |
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| | Mount Aso, active volcano in Kyushu, Japan | |
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| | Alxa League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Aswan (town in south Egypt) | |
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| | Appleton (name) / Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere | |
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| | Al-Amin | |
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| | Adelaide, capital of South Australia | |
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| | Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Arabian Peninsula | |
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| | (Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells | |
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