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HSK
what? / something; anything
HSK 1
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
HSK 1
it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind / think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're welcome
HSK 1
why? / for what reason?
HSK 2
what kind?; what sort?
HSK 2
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ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc) / assorted / miscellaneous
Nash (surname)
Shifang, county-level city in Deyang 德陽|德阳, Sichuan
(food) assorted / mixed / assortment
Bush (name) / George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), US president 1988-1992 / George W. Bush (1946-), US President 2000-2008
Hexigten banner or Kesigüten khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Shichahai, scenic area of northwest Beijing with three lakes
Kashmir
Cavendish (name) / Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist
Atush or Artux city and county in Qizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州 / Atushi city near Kashgar in Xinjiang
Uchturpan nahiyisi (Uqturpan county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang
Bolshevik
Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan
Marrakech (city in Morocco)
(dialect) nuisance / pain
Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan
Shia (a movement in Islam)
Ingushetia, republic in southwestern Russia
poem
Kashgar or Qeshqer (Chinese Kashi) in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan
Mt Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
utensils / furniture
Pristina, capital of Kosovo 科索沃
Kaposvár in southwest Hungary, capital of Somogy County 紹莫吉州|绍莫吉州
surname Kostunica / Vojislav Kostunica (1944-), Serbian politician, last president of Yugoslavia 2000-2003, prime minister of Serbia 2004-2008
it is nothing / there's nothing ... about it
Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in south Afghanistan
various kinds of everyday utensils
Qeshqer Shehiri (Kashgar city) in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan
Kumarajiva c. 334-413, Buddhist monk and translator of Zen texts
who? / what (kind of) person?
Nashville, capital of Tennessee
(spoken) why? / for which reason?
mixed vegetables
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
nothing is impossible / there's nothing impossible about it
What decade are you living in? / That's so out-of-date!
Shifang, county-level city in Deyang 德陽|德阳, Sichuan
What's up?; Is something the matter? / (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 關|关 + {person} + 什麼事|什么事 "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
Atush or Artux city in Qizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州 / Atushi city near Kashgar in Xinjiang
when?; at what time?
leishmaniasis (medicine)
New Hampshire, US state
Uchturpan nahiyisi (Uqturpan county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang
What brings you here? (idiom)
Bushehr Province of southern Iran, bordering on the Persian Gulf / Bushehr, port city, capital of Bushehr Province
the Hindu Kush (mountain range)
tithing
somewhere / someplace / where
Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan
Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Osh (city in Kyrgyzstan)
Porsgrunn (city in Telemark, Norway)
János (Hungarian name)
Shia sect (of Islam)
mixed fruit salad
sth pertinent to say
and so on; and so forth; and what not
Hexigten banner or Kesigüten khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
lit. whatever mountain one is on, one should sing its songs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do
Ørsta (city in Norway)
Kashgar, prefecture in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Taxkorgan township in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
dogfish (loanword)
Pakistan administered Kashmir
Lake Balkhash in southeast Kazakhstan
encumbrance / burden / that awful thing (colloquial) / nuisance
New Hampshire, US state
Pashtu (one of the languages of Afghanistan)
it takes all sorts (to make a world) (idiom)
Farkas (Hungarian name)
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Binche (Belgian city)
Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg
what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?
Mikheil Saakashvili (1967-), Georgian politician, president of Georgia 2004-2013
Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan (Tw)
surname Ashrawi / Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (1946-), Palestinian scholar and political activist
fine verse


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