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same; identical / uniformly; all; without exception
HSK 4
HSK 4
lawyer
HSK 4
discipline
HSK 4
rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline
HSK 4
regular
right to protection by law (law)
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  *律* | 律* | *律
surname Lü
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  *律* | 律* | *律
law
scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts")
law firm (abbr. for 律師事務所|律师事务所)
(math.) distributive law
inverse square law (physics)
the Philippines
legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law
Detroit, Michigan
rhythm / to move rhythmically
self-discipline / self-regulation / autonomy (ethics) / autonomic (physiology)
legal responsibility; liability
equal temperament
verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines (abbr. to 七律)
Department of Justice (Hong Kong)
(medicine) heart rhythm
(computing) Moore's law
law firm
to be strict with oneself
regular verse / strict poetic form with eight lines of 5, 6 or 7 syllables and even lines rhyming
the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime
tuning; temperament / music
laws and decrees
tuning / temperament
arrhythmia
melody
HSK 7-9
external regulation (e.g. by means of a regulatory body, as opposed to self-regulation 自律) / (ethics) heteronomy
monastic discipline / commandment
Malé, capital of Maldives (Tw)
arrhythmia
(music) theme; principal melody / (fig.) central theme; main idea / (of a movie) created with the purpose of promoting Party values and point of view
circadian rhythm
forms of versification / conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition / metrical verse
Archimedes' principle (physical law of buoyancy)
meters and forms of versification; prosody
to be strict with oneself (idiom) / to demand a lot of oneself
sufficient grounds (law)
long poem in lüshi form 律詩|律诗
conservation law (physics)
legal force (i.e. binding in law)
commutative law xy = yx (math)
a law
to tune (e.g. piano)
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCP
cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody
Eluid (son of Achim)
Queen's Counsel
Tagalog (language)
general counsel
Yollig Taxin or Yelü Dashi (1087-1143), Chinese-educated Khitan leader, founder of Western Liao 西遼|西辽 in Central Asia
barefoot lawyer / grassroots lawyer
Herod the Great (73 BC - 4 BC), Roman-appointed king of Judea (37-4 BC)
equal temperament (music)
(old) (loanword) telephone
law of Moses
autonomic nervous system
tuning; temperament
laws of motion (mechanics)
associative law (xy)z = x(yz) (math.)
see 沙拉
two-character surname Yelü
arrhythmia
thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive / once you've seen one, you've seen them all
rhythm / pace
Filipino
solicitor (law)
University of the Philippines
golden rule / key principle
criminal law
inverse-square law (physics)
Mosaic Law
(bird species of China) Philippine cuckoo-dove (Macropygia tenuirostris)
Self-Regulation Organization / SRO
Yelü Chucai (1190-1244), Khitan statesman and advisor to Genghis Khan and Ögödei Khan, known for convincing the Mongols to tax the conquered population of the north China plains rather than slaughter it
an iron law; a cast-iron rule


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