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| | Southeast Asia | |
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| | Asia-Pacific | |
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| | Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the governing body of football (soccer) in Asia | |
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| | Asian Cup | |
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| | Asian Cup | |
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| | East Asia | |
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| | water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia | |
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| | old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond | |
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| | Greater China / refers to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (esp. in finance and economics) / refers to all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas | |
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| | Asian Development Bank | |
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| | Japan (old) / East Asian countries | |
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| | of Asian descent | |
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| | Northeast Asia | |
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| | southern Asia | |
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| | Ili River in central Asia | |
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| | Asian area / the Far East / Asia Pacific region | |
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| | Central Asia | |
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| | Asia-Pacific region | |
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| | water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia / Taiwan pr. [yong1] | |
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| | Asian Games | |
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| | Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent; (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia | |
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| | (loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste) | |
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| | ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty | |
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| | the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America | |
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| | Central Asian grasslands | |
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| | Asia, Africa and Latin America | |
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| | East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer) | |
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| | Central Asia | |
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| | Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3] | |
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| | (Tw) ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) | |
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| | non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和) | |
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| | ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) | |
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| | East Asian Games | |
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| | Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka North Vietnam), a country in Southeast Asia 1945-1976 | |
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| | (bird species of China) Asian rosy finch (Leucosticte arctoa) | |
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| | Europe and Asia / Eurasia | |
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| | Asian Winter Games | |
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| | three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o | |
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| | Happy sheep (group of five cartoon sheep), mascot of 2010 Guangzhou Asian games 廣州亞運會|广州亚运会 | |
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| | the Far East / East Asia | |
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| | char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish) | |
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| | Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong) | |
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| | APEC (Asia Pacific economic cooperation) | |
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| | East Asia Summit, annual meeting of leading Asian states | |
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| | Southeast Asia / South seas | |
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| | Mahayana, the Great Vehicle / Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond / also pr. [Da4 cheng2] | |
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| | Bank of East Asia | |
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| | Jordan River (in southwestern Asia) | |
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| | generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods / abbr. for Vietnam 越南 | |
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| | the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏) | |
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| | Boao Forum for Asia, founded in 2001 | |
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| | morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries) | |
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| | Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country | |
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| | the Far East / East Asia | |
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| | 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") | |
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| | the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia | |
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| | Bo'ao, coastal town in Hainan, a tourist destination and the site of the annual Boao Forum for Asia | |
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| | Radio Free Asia | |
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| | yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations) | |
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| | Banco Delta Asia S.A.R.L., Macau | |
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| | laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia | |
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| | (bird species of China) Asian desert warbler (Curruca nana) | |
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| | laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia | |
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| | Funan, ancient state in Southeast Asia (1st - 6th century) | |
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| | (East Asian) hip-and-gable roof | |
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| | (loanword) chapan, a traditional collarless coat worn in Central Asian countries | |
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| | the Ferghana Valley (in Uzbekistan, central Asia) | |
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| | Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia | |
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| | Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia) | |
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| | the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia | |
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| | Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia | |
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| | Yue state / generic term for states in south China or southeast Asia at different historical periods | |
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| | North Asia | |
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| | the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia | |
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| | Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia | |
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| | banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance | |
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| | Xenocypris, genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia | |
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| | Karakhan Dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century | |
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| | Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia | |
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| | the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia | |
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| | "kopi luwak" or civet coffee, made from coffee beans plucked from Asian palm civet's feces | |
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| | Wusun kingdom of central Asia (c. 300 BC-300 AD) | |
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| | Tartar (various northern tribes in ancient China) / Tatar (Turkic ethnic group in central Asia) | |
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| | Bagarius, an Asian genus of catfishes | |
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| | karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East) | |
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| | Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭|楼兰 / also written 斯文·赫定 | |
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| | (coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person) / layman / amateur | |
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| | (Tw) high-grafted pear (a variety of Asian pear grown in Taiwan, produced by grafting scions from high-altitude or high-latitude regions onto local rootstocks, adapting them to Taiwan's subtropical climate) | |
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| | double eyelid / epicanthal fold of upper eyelid (characteristic of Asian people) | |
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| | Parthia (ancient country in central Asia) | |
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| | Asia Minor / Anatolia | |
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| | Southwest Asia | |
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| | Nanzhao kingdom 738-937 in southwest China and southeast Asia | |
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| | Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) | |
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| | ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang | |
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| | a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself) / Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia | |
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