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HSK
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Mani (god)
Bern, capital of Switzerland
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Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)
Mitt Romney (1947-), US Republican contender 2012
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
Indonesia (abbr. for 印度尼西亞|印度尼西亚)
(loanword) martini
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
Disney, American entertainment conglomerate / Walt Disney (1901–1966), American animator and film producer
Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
honey (term of endearment) (loanword)
Anthony (name)
Albany, New York
Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney)
(loanword) panini
Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia
Brittany, area in the north-west of France
Danny (name)
incantation (Sanskrit: dharani) / religious chant (promoting virtue and obstructing evil)
(name) Tony
(Internet slang) what? (loanword from Japanese なに nani)
Cassini (proper name)
Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni")
damping
Moroni, capital of Comoros (Tw)
St Denis or St Dennis
Moroni, capital of Comoros
(Buddhist) monks and nuns
Bryne (City in Rogaland, Norway)
Jonê or Zhuoni County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州, Gansu
Giuliani (name) / Rudolph W (Rudy) Giuliani (1944-), US Republican politician, Mayor of New York City 1994-2001
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
Jeff Kinney
Cheney (name) / Richard B. "Dick" Cheney (1941-), US Republican politician, vice-president 2001-2008
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Sistani (name of a prominent Iraqi Ayatollah)
brownie (pastry) (loanword)
Mani (3rd century AD), Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism
Sony
Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia
(Tw) Eswatini
Puccini
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
Armani (fashion designer)
(loanword) fentanyl
Sunni (subdivision of Islam)
modafinil (loanword)
Marconi, UK electronics company
fentanyl (loanword) (Tw)
(Tw) gin and tonic
facekini
Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994–1995, 2001–2006, 2008–2011
(loanword) martini
China-Nepal
Abilene
courtesy name for Confucius 孔夫子
Ghazni (Afghan province)
Cassini space probe
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276–c. 195 BC), Greek polymath
Kisangani (city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Brønnøysund (city in Nordland, Norway)
Brittany (France) / Bretagne
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist and composer
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Sidney or Sydney (name)
(female usage) older sister (loanword from Korean "eonni")
bikini (loanword)
Panchen Erdeni or Panchen Lama / abbr. to 班禪|班禅
mankini (loanword)
pfennig (monetary unit) (loanword)
Tiffany & Co. (US luxury jewelry retailer)
Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼 founder of Buddhism (also written 嵐毘尼|岚毗尼, 臘伐尼|腊伐尼, 林微尼)
Silvaner (grape type)


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