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male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl
HSK 7-9
T-girder
(loanword) satin (textile)
William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Peking University
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
suddenly / by surprise
Sint Maarten, island country in the Caribbean
isobutane
(loanword) martini
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
variant of 伶仃
patch (for mending clothes, tires etc) / (software) patch
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
butyl glycol
Kung Pao Chicken / spicy diced chicken
Latin (language)
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
Aston Martin
pudding (loanword)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Tw)
Kenting National Park on the Hengchun Peninsula 恆春半島|恒春半岛, Pingtung county, south Taiwan
Samuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics
(onom.) sound of a bell: ding-a-ling
Latin (language)
a tiny bit
Aden
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
thong (underwear)
tiny bit
(Tw) Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia / see also 川建國|川建国
(loanword) nicotine
lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
diced chicken meat
Latin alphabet
Gulf of Aden
Saladin (c. 1138-1193)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
gardener
(old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc
Chinese violet (Viola mandsurica)
Austin or Austen (name) / Austin, Texas / also written 奧斯汀|奥斯汀
to add a son to the family
lilac
(old) member of local militia
adult male
T-shaped
T-square / set square (carpenter's tool)
able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
Tintin, cartoon character
(neologism) (slang) penis (丁丁 resembles "JJ", which is short for 雞雞|鸡鸡)
sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
thirty-fourth year D10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1957 or 2017
Manchurian foot soldier
T-junction
Wu Ding (c. 14th century BC), legendary founder and wise ruler of Shang dynasty
twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067
variant of 叮嚀|叮咛
number of people in a family / population / (old) adult males / male servants
Nottingham (city in England)
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
diced meat
(of a male) to come of age / an adult male
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
butane
Martin (name)
fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047
Kenting, a national park on the southern tip of Taiwan, popular as a tourist destination (abbr. for 墾丁國家公園|垦丁国家公园)
Sardinia
fifty-fourth year D6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1977 or 2037
butene or butylene C4H8
butadiene C4H6 / biethylene
hammer pick
(onom.) ding dong / jingling of bells / clanking sound
forty-fourth year D8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1967 or 2027
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) / unheeding the lessons of the past
Dual Income, No Kids (DINK) (loanword)
orange (fruit) (Tw)
neoprene
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
(idiom) illiterate
go-kart
fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057
Latin dance
Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation
(chemistry) butyl group
Terengganu, northeast state of mainland Malaysia
Sardinia
Ding Ling (1904-1986), female novelist, author of novel The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河上, attacked during the 1950s as anti-Party
carnitine (loanword) (biochemistry)
T-bone steak
Nottinghamshire (English county)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist
lit. to keep ding (the fourth heavenly stem) distinct from mao (the fourth earthly branch) (idiom) / fig. meticulous / conscientious / unambiguous
Ding Lei (1971-), founder and CEO of NetEase 網易|网易
(loanword) gelatin
chitin
Borodin (name) / Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Russian chemist and composer
Ding Ruchang (1836-1895), commander of the Qing North China Navy
tetrose (CH2O)4, monosaccharide with four carbon atoms
a type of plain-woven woolen fabric that is thin, stiff and smooth

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