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  *第* | 第* | *第
(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just
HSK 1
working hand; member of a work team; participant / the boss (short form of 第一把手)
HSK 7-9
front line / forefront
HSK 7-9
first-hand
HSK 7-9
Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
to pass an imperial examination
fifth
dinar (currency) (loanword)
family status
family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
first under heaven / number one in the country
First Lady (wife of US president)
Indiana, US state
fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
level / rank / grade / rating
(American) Indian / native American / indigenous peoples of the Americas
second / number two / next / secondary
fourth channel / (in Taiwan) cable TV, FTV
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)
mansion house / official residence
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚
to fail an exam
thirtieth
residence / mansion
step one / first step
order / sequence / one after another
first / most important; primary; foremost
(geopolitics) Second Island Chain, strategic arc of islands stretching from Japan's Bonin Islands to Guam and Papua New Guinea
variant of 覃第
the second time / second / number two
(geopolitics) First Island Chain, strategic arc of islands including Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines
next day / the morrow
the first time / first / number one
fourth quarter
top notch; highest quality
Nazi Germany / Third Reich (shorthand for 第三帝國|第三帝国)
Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite that inhabits the gut
Yiddish language
third quarter (of financial year)
residence of a noble / top candidate in the imperial examinations
(lit.) second spring / (fig.) falling in love for the second time / a new lease of life / rebirth
Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)
sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc)
Burgundy (Bourgogne), a medieval kingdom and later a powerful duchy, now a region of France
first-class
ranked number one in the world / the world's first
to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)
second place
third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone
third place
grade (i.e. quality) / rank
World War One
first round (of match, or election)
first level
First World
second quarter (of financial year)
in the first moments (of sth happening) / immediately (after an event) / first thing
at first glance / at first sight
housing / high-class residence
Indiana, US state
first-person shooter (video game genre)
first quarter (of financial year)
the first pot of gold / the initial profits from an economic endeavour
tertiary sector of industry
third person (grammar)
fifth column (subversive group)
Beijing International Studies University (BISU)
third party
fourth tone in Mandarin / falling tone
former residence
Communist International or Comintern (1919-1943), also known as the Third International 第三國際|第三国际
the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐
the person in charge / the head of the leadership group
second job
Andes mountain chain of South America
First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866
the second person / (fig.) someone else / third party
second tone in Mandarin / rising tone
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (abbr. for 第二次漢字簡化方案|第二次汉字简化方案)
Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician
category 5 / CAT 5 (cable)
American Indians
(math.) first fundamental form
Third World
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
(physics) Faraday cage
first case / first instance / first time (sth is done)
extensive residence / your house
(zoology) nictitating membrane
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)
science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化)
territory belonging to a third party (as a neutral location for peace negotiations or as a transit point for indirect travel or trade etc)
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986) / abbr. to 二簡|二简
secondary industry
sixth sense / intuition
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)

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