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  *东* | 东* | *东
east / host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest) / landlord
HSK 1
the east / eastern part
HSK 3
east / east side / eastern part / to the east of
HSK 1
east
HSK 2
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  *左* | 左* | *左
left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of
HSK 1
person traditionally classified as belonging to the Mongoloid race, including East Asians, the Inuit and Native Americans
East China
east and west
East African Rift Valley
east and west / east to west
East Asia
Northeast China / Manchuria / lit. east of Shanhai Pass 山海關|山海关 / Kantō region of Japan
to the east of (suffix)
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Japan (old) / East Asian countries
east, south, west and north / all directions
Asian area / the Far East / Asia Pacific region
Middle East
the five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle
East Africa
(literary) East China Sea / (literary) Japan
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
Pudong, a district of Shanghai to the east of the Huangpu River, full name 浦東新區|浦东新区
lit. everything is ready, all we need is an east wind (idiom) / fig. lacking only one tiny crucial item
(loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste)
East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer)
The East is Red, north Shaanxi folk song
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  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil)
East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer)
lit. to return east / fig. to return to one's homeland
East and West hemispheres
the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down) / the whole country / the universe / everything under the sun
East and West Germany / refers to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
if it isn't bright in the east, it'll be bright in the west (idiom) / if something doesn't work here, it might work somewhere else
East China Normal University (ECNU)
East Asian Games
abbr. for 東突厥斯坦解放組織|东突厥斯坦解放组织, East Turkestan Liberation Organization (ETLO)
East China University of Science and Technology
East China Normal University (abbr. for 華東師範大學|华东师范大学)
East Germany (1945-1990) / German Democratic Republic 德意志民主共和國|德意志民主共和国
east west south north
(lit.) to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall (saying) / (fig.) to rob Peter to pay Paul
punitive expedition to the east
Sishui County in Jining 濟寧|济宁, Shandong / Surabaya, capital of East Java province of Indonesia
Chaoshan, region in the east of Guangdong, encompassing the cities of Chaozhou 潮州市 and Shantou 汕頭市|汕头市, with its own distinct language (Chaoshan Min 潮汕話|潮汕话) and culture
East India Company
East Coast
Yunnan and Guizhou plateau in southwest China, covering east Yunnan, whole of Guizhou, west of Guangxi and southern margins of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan
lit. the east wind prevails over the west wind (idiom) / fig. one side prevails over the other / progressive ideas prevail over reactionary ones
Far East (loanword)
the East; the Orient / two-character surname Dongfang
capable person / Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid
HSK 7-9
Banpo neolithic Yangshao culture archaeological site east of Xi'an 西安
the East / China
the Far East / East Asia
the five regions: the east, south, west, north and center / all parts / China and the lands beyond its frontiers
East China sea
Hualien, city and county on the east coast of Taiwan
Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)
east side (of sth)
East Asia Summit, annual meeting of leading Asian states
Goth (member of a historical East Germanic people)
Bank of East Asia
east-west distance
beyond the pass, i.e. the region north and east of Shanhai Pass 山海關|山海关 or the region west of Jiayu Pass 嘉峪關|嘉峪关 or both
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
east side / east face
East African Community
Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河|黄河 and the Changjiang 長江|长江
Classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the east before dawn
East Sea Fleet
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries)
the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)
the Far East / East Asia
Azure Dragon, one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations, representing the east and the spring season / see 青龍滿族自治縣|青龙满族自治县
Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC
East Turkestan Liberation Organization (ETLO), Chinese dissident group / abbr. for 東突厥斯坦解放組織|东突厥斯坦解放组织
yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)
east longitude
(East Asian) hip-and-gable roof
East China Normal University (abbr. for 華東師範大學|华东师范大学)
east Pacific
Near East
Ainu (ethnic group of Japan's north and Russia's east)
to threaten the east and strike to the west (idiom) / to create a diversion
South Hamgyeong Province of east North Korea
Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet
East African Rift Valley
Shan plateau of east Myanmar (Burma)
Huangpu River, major river flowing through Shanghai, dividing the city into Puxi 浦西 (west of the river) and Pudong 浦東|浦东 (east of the river)
Tabriz city in northwest Iran, capital of Iranian East Azerbaijan
East China Sea / East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography)
Epimedium, genus of herbaceous flowering plant, cultivated in the Far East as aphrodisiac / also called barrenwort or horny goatweed (said to resemble crushed goat's testicles)
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
abbr. for 東突厥斯坦伊斯蘭運動|东突厥斯坦伊斯兰运动 East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky)
lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west / odds and ends (idiom)
East Xinjiang
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  *夷* | 夷* | *夷
non-Han people, esp. to the East of China / barbarians / to wipe out / to exterminate / to tear down / to raze

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