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| | Rubin (name) / Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton | |
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| | Ürümqi or Urumqi, 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 in west China | |
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| | Brooklyn, borough of New York City | |
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| | alternative name for Shandong 山東|山东 | |
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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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| | 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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| | (bound form) crass / stupid / rude / (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords) | |
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| | Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor | |
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| | Yale University | |
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| | Taroko National Park in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, Taiwan / Taroko ethnic group Taiwan | |
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| | Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name / Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-2011), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician / Lhalu suburb of Lhasa | |
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| | Brook (name) / Peter Brook (1925), British theater director | |
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| | Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific (Tw) | |
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| | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964 | |
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| | Andrew (name) | |
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| | Ürümqi or Urumqi, 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 | |
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| | Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers | |
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| | Brussels, capital of Belgium | |
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| | blues (music) (loanword) | |
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| | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964 | |
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| | Zulu | |
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| | Kailu county in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific | |
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| | Prussia (historical German state) | |
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| | Urumqi county (Uighur: Ürümchi Nahiyisi) in Urumqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐, Xinjiang | |
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| | Yale | |
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| | Rukai, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan | |
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| | Beirut, capital of Lebanon | |
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| | Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Bruges (Dutch Brugge), medieval town in Belgium | |
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| | Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana | |
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| | Karlsruhe (city in Germany) | |
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| | Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝, located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东, birthplace of Confucius | |
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| | Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also called 檀香山 | |
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| | Lu Su or Lu Zijing 魯子敬|鲁子敬 (172-217), statesman, diplomat and strategist of Eastern Wu 東吳|东吴 | |
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| | Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), prime minister of Canada 1980-1984 and 1968-1979 / Justin Trudeau (1971-), prime minister of Canada from 2015 | |
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| | Lushan county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山, Henan | |
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| | person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person | |
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| | Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author | |
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| | Kailu county in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism | |
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| | Anglo- | |
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| | Lushan county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山, Henan | |
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| | lute (loanword) | |
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| | Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Farouk of Egypt (1920-1965), king of Egypt 1936-1952 | |
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| | Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times | |
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| | stupid / slow on the uptake | |
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| | Cyrus (name) | |
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| | Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet | |
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| | Ruhr River, a tributary of the Rhine in Germany | |
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| | Perugia (city in Italy) | |
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| | Turpan City in Xinjiang (Chinese: Tulufan) | |
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| | Turpan City in Xinjiang (Chinese: Tulufan) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Tuvalu, island country in the SW Pacific (Tw) | |
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| | Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands | |
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| | Brutus (name) | |
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| | dull-witted; foolish | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher | |
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| | Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi | |
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| | Ludian county in Zhaotong 昭通, Yunnan | |
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| | Brucella (infectious disease) | |
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| | (onom.) the sound of a rolling object | |
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| | the Turpan Depression in Xinjiang | |
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| | Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry | |
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| | Peru | |
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| | robustness | |
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| | Shandong cuisine | |
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| | robust (loanword) / solid | |
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| | jitterbug (loanword) | |
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| | Wuqia county in Xinjiang / name of county in Xinjiang from early 20th century now called Wuqia 烏恰縣|乌恰县 | |
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| | Wuqia county in Xinjiang / name of county in Xinjiang from early 20th century now called Wuqia 烏恰縣|乌恰县 | |
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| | Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred to Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site / also known as Ayers Rock | |
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| | Uluru, massive sandstone outcrop in central Australia | |
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| | Tergüel or Teruel, Spain | |
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| | Anglo-Saxon (people) | |
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| | Anglo-Saxon | |
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| | Zulu people | |
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| | Peruvian ground-cherry / cape gooseberry / Physalis peruviana | |
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| | Rhythm and Blues R&B | |
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| | crude and ill-educated (idiom) | |
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| | Rotorua, city in New Zealand | |
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| | Santa Cruz | |
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| | Santa Cruz Island, off the California coast | |
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| | St Andrew | |
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| | Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute | |
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| | Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh) | |
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| | the Louvre | |
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| | History of Kingdom Lu / refers to the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 | |
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| | the lord of Lu (who declined to employ Confucius) | |
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| | person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius | |
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| | Lu Zijing or Lu Su 魯肅|鲁肃 (172-217), statesman, diplomat and strategist of Eastern Wu 東吳|东吴 | |
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