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Arizona
state of Arizona
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
mulberry fruit (Fructus mori)
Tucson (city in Arizona)
great changes / ups and downs / vicissitudes / abbr. of 滄海桑田|沧海桑田
HSK 7-9
Zanzibar
silkworm
(loanword) sauna
HSK 7-9
to have been through the hardships of life / to have been through the mill
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surname Sang
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(bound form) mulberry tree
older female / woman of mature years (Japanese loanword)
mulberry tree, with leaves used to feed silkworms
mulberry farming / to grow mulberry for sericulture
Tanzania
samba (dance) (loanword)
silk (specifically, mulberry silk)
older man / man of mature years (Japanese loanword)
a sense of having been through good times and bad / a weathered and worn look
mulberry fruit (Fructus mori)
mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese); madam
Sandra (name)
Sangzhi, a county in Zhangjiajie City 張家界市|张家界市, Hunan
lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world
Samye town and monastery in central Tibet
Mozambique
Lausanne (city in Switzerland)
a model of Volkswagen Santana based on the Passat B2 / Poussin (name)
lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree / fig. to scold sb indirectly / to make oblique accusations (idiom)
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer
Sangjian by the Pu River, a place in the ancient state of Wei known for wanton behavior / lovers' rendezvous
(literary) one's native place
Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Hassan or Hasan (personal name or place name)
(surname) Sanders
Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script
Sangiovese (grape type)
having lived through many changes
Sandefjord (city in Vestfold, Norway)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
Moraceae (type of flowering plant)
Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)
Nissan, Japanese car make
Sandinista National Liberation Front
The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize
Sandnes (city in Rogaland, Norway)
Santana (name)
Sampaio (name) / Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, president of Portugal 1996-2006 / Sampaio, town in Brazil
Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
Arizona
to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom) / to compensate later for one's earlier loss / what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
Kisangani (city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Songhay people of Mali and the Sahara
lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记, Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes / life's vicissitudes
(sports) (loanword) sambo
Santander, capital of Spanish autonomous region Cantabria 坎塔布里亞|坎塔布里亚
sauna (loanword)
South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
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