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  *撒* | 撒* | *撒
to let go / to cast / to let loose / to discharge / to give expression to / (coll.) to pee
HSK 7-9
to tell lies
HSK 7-9
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  *撒* | 撒* | *撒
to scatter / to sprinkle / to spill
to let go of sth / to give up
sub-Saharan Africa
Second book of Samuel
to display shockingly bad behavior / to behave atrociously
to act like a spoiled child / to throw a tantrum / to act coquettishly
to sow (seeds) / to scatter
to throw a net
Satan or Shaitan
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
to pass water / to piss / to urinate / to wee wee
Caesar or Kaiser (name)
to take to one's heels / to scram
to leak (of air) / to go flat (of a tire) / to vent one's anger
Saxon (people)
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
Caesar (name) / Gaius Julius Caesar 100-42 BC / by extension, emperor, Kaiser, Tsar
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
to make an unreasonable scene
to sow (seeds by scattering) / scatter sowing
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
to get drunk and act crazy / roaring drunk
to make a scene / to raise hell
to stand aside and do nothing (idiom) / to take no part in
to sow seeds
Asa (?-870 BC), third king of Judah and fifth king of the House of David (Judaism)
(coll.) gesture by an idol aimed at delighting fans (e.g. winking or throwing signed items); to interact with fans in such a manner (loanword from Japanese "fansābisu" – literally, "fan service")
First epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians
Western Sahara
Sahara Desert
Anglo-Saxon
to run off / to beat it
variant of 撒旦, Satan or Shaitan
Zechariah (name) / Zechariah (Old Testament prophet)
(slang) to be lovey-dovey in public
Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
Sahara
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
(Protestantism) Salmon (son of Nashon)
Eleazar (son of Eluid)
Nebuchadnezzar
First book of Samuel
Thessalonica
to leave one's mortal frame (idiom) / to die
(Catholicism) Salmon (son of Nashon)
(dialect) to curse; to speak vulgarly
sub-Saharan
sudden
Zadok (son of Azor and father of Achim in Matthew 1:13)
you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom) / one doesn't act before one is sure to succeed
Isaiah (Catholic transliteration)
Book of Zechariah
to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine
Sadducees
Isaiah
Caesar salad dressing
Second Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians
(dialect) to scamper off; to take to one's heels; to make oneself scarce
Sahrawi (person)
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
Isaac (son of Abraham)
Issac (name)
Caesarea (town in Israel, between Tel Aviv and Haifa)
Requiem Mass (Catholic)
(Catholic) Mass
to sprinkle
Sardinia
Saxon (people)
Sahrawi
(coll.) to talk in one's sleep; to sleepwalk
to behave ingratiatingly
(fig.) trump card
to have nothing further to do with a matter (idiom)
Salar, language of Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
Shealtiel (son of Jeconiah)
to intersperse comic dialogue (as they do in operas)
lit. the wind cannot be caught in a net / to waste one's effort (idiom)
(Catholicism) Solomon, a king of ancient Israel
sashimi (loanword)
Samaria
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon (people)
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州, Gansu
Jerusalem
Julius Caesar, 1599 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Spanish Sahara (former Spanish colony in Africa)
Satan, Devil king


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