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piano / CL: , 臺|台
HSK 5
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  *键* | 键* | *键
key (on a piano or computer keyboard) / button (on a mouse or other device) / chemical bond / linchpin
HSK 5
electric piano; digital piano
OK lens, orthokeratology contact lens that helps reshape the cornea in order to eliminate nearsightedness or myopia
gelada (Theropithecus gelada), Ethiopian herbivorous monkey similar to baboon / also written 吉爾達|吉尔达
Ethiopia
grand piano
Lang Lang (1982-), Chinese concert pianist
shortsighted / nearsighted / myopia
HSK 6
(Tw) tilapia
(idiom) to be a feast for the eyes; to be a cornucopia of delights; to be diverse and abundant
dystopia
Caspian Sea
presbyopia
International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) (abbr. for 國際奧林匹克數學競賽|国际奥林匹克数学竞赛)
olympiad mathematics / competition math
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  *盾* | 盾* | *盾
shield (CL:) / (currency) Vietnamese dong / currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc)
Fallopian tube / oviduct
marsupial pouch
Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia) / Amharic / Ethiopian
a piano key
utopian socialism
treasure bowl (mythology) / fig. source of wealth / cornucopia / gold mine
ideal state / utopia
(bird species of China) Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
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  *扁* | 扁* | *扁
surname Pian
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surname Piao / Korean surname (Park, Pak or Bak) / also pr. [Pu2]
Indonesian rupiah
Ethiopia
(loanword) utopia
pianist
pseudomyopia
the Peach Blossom Spring, a hidden land of peace and prosperity / utopia
(loanword) okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
pedal (in a car, on a piano etc) / treadle / footstool / footrest / footboard
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  *骈* | 骈* | *骈
surname Pian
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
amblyopia
porgy; sea bream (family Sparidae) / (Tw) tilapia
milkweeds (genus Asclepias)
tan / sepia
Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians
farsighted / hyperopia or hypermetropia (farsightedness)
prepared piano
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer
Ethiopia (Tw)
Umbelliferae or Apiaceae, plant family containing carrot, coriander etc
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Russian composer and pianist
Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光|司马光 et al in 11th century
loud pedal (on piano) / sustaining pedal
(zoology) marsupial
keyboard instrument (piano, organ etc)
night blindness / nyctalopia
wombat (Australian marsupial)
zebra tilapia / Tilapia buttikoferi (zoology)
myopia / nearsightedness / shortsightedness
Olympia (Greece)
Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians
(bird species of China) Caspian gull (Larus cachinnans)
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  *埃* | 埃* | *埃
abbr. for Egypt 埃及 or Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亞|埃塞俄比亚
Ceres, dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by G. Piazzi
piano performance
(bird species of China) European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
Beipiao, a county-level city in Chaoyang City 朝陽市|朝阳市, Liaoning
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  *菣* | 菣* | *菣
Artemisia apiacea
Pianguan county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
Shizhoupian, early school primer in great seal script 大篆, attributed to King Xuan of Zhou 周宣王 but probably dating from c. 500 BC
Yupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顧野王|顾野王 in 6th century AD
(Tw) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer
Pianguan county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
gelada (Theropithecus gelada), Ethiopian herbivorous monkey similar to baboon
tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)
Gu Yewang (519-581), historian and an interpreter of classical texts, editor of Yupian 玉篇
tilapia
presbyopia
pouch of a female marsupial
(bird species of China) Caspian plover (Anarhynchus asiaticus)
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
edible seaweed of genus Porphyra or genus Pyropia, esp. one used to make dried sheets of nori
presbyopia
to tune (e.g. piano)
Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報|京报, executed in 1926 by warlord Zhang Zuolin 張作霖|张作霖
Afar region of northeast Ethiopia / Afar people
(biogeography) the Afrotropical realm (formerly, the Ethiopian Zone)
presbyopia
Afar Desert, Southern Ethiopia
(Tw) Ethiopian Zone, aka Afrotropical realm
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name) / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and pianist
Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established
Nanpiao, a district of Huludao City 葫蘆島市|葫芦岛市, Liaoning
soft pedal (on piano) / una corda pedal
pianist
Abyssinia, historical name of Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia (Tw)
double vision / diplopia
tilapia
(medicine) esotropia / cross-eye
Apia, capital of the Independent State of Samoa
abbr. for Yupian 玉篇 and Guangyun 廣韻|广韵


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