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 / That's so out-of-date!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


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