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Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
nylon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
Daniel (name)
(Internet slang) alternative for 你媽|你妈 / (transcription from Tibetan) the sun
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), wartime predecessor of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那|波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
University of California (abbr. for 加利福尼亞大學|加利福尼亚大学)
fentanyl (loanword) (Tw)
wind damper (engineering)
Indonesia
Garden of Gethsemane (in the Christian passion story)
Silvaner (grape type)
Guinness (name)
Indonesian language
Panchen Erdeni or Panchen Lama / abbr. to 班禪|班禅
Friedrich Nietzsche (1846–1900), German philosopher
California
Manila, capital of Philippines
Richard Nixon (1913–1994), US president 1969–1974 / surname Nixon
the Netherlands
Gejiu, a county-level city in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture 紅河哈尼族彝族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州, Yunnan
Venice / Venezia
Sunni (subdivision of Islam)
(loanword) fentanyl
Albanian (person)
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece
(Buddhist) monks and nuns
Leibniz (name) / Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher, co-inventor of the calculus
Phoenix, capital of Arizona / also 菲尼克斯
Armenia
courtesy name for Confucius 孔夫子
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) / abbr. for 加利福尼亞理工學院|加利福尼亚理工学院
true statement / incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼)
Bern, capital of Switzerland
Nissan, Japanese car make / also transliterated 尼桑
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Nice (city in France)
Bologna
Hani ethnic group
Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney)
München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
Polynesia
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
(loanword) nicotine
Armani (fashion designer)
Tiffany & Co. (US luxury jewelry retailer)
California
Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis
Winnie the Pooh
China-Nepal
Nigeria
Tunisia / Tunis, capital of Tunisia
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912
Danny (name)
Tanzania (Tw)
French Polynesia
Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya) / Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism
Virginia, US state
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
(Tw) Dominican Republic
Heineken (Dutch brewing company) / see also 海尼根
University of California
Indonesia (abbr. for 印度尼西亞|印度尼西亚)
Srebrenica, town in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Sony (former name of the company used prior to 2009 in some markets including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, now replaced by 索尼 in all markets)
Disneyland
Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite / also written 斯普特尼克
(Tw) (neologism c. 2007) young person who is not studying, working or being trained for work (loanword from NEET: not in education, employment or training)
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni")
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
Niamey, capital of Niger
Buddhist nun
Nicosia, capital of Cyprus
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
Hekou Yaozu Autonomous County in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture 紅河哈尼族彝族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州, Yunnan
Dominican Republic
brownie (pastry) (loanword)
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time
Kenya
Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged / the Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼, Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas")
damping
Indonesian rupiah
Tanzania
Anthony (name)
Mojiang Hani Autonomous County in Pu'er 普洱, Yunnan
Neanderthal man
the Greenwich meridian
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
Cheney (name) / Richard B. "Dick" Cheney (1941-), US Republican politician, vice-president 2001-2008
Bunyavirus / virus of the family Bunyaviridae
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
(loanword) penicillin
Pennsylvania

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