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hectowatt
decawatt
centiwatt
megawatt
kilowatt-hour
Valletta, capital of Malta
Loire River, France
Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)
kilowatt
Rivaldo
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  *瓦* | 瓦* | *瓦
roof tile / abbr. for 瓦特
HSK 7-9
Geneva, Switzerland
(Tw) see 施瓦辛格
lit. contribute bricks and tiles for a building (idiom) / fig. to do one's bit to help
tear gas
Better broken jade than intact tile. / Death is preferable to dishonor. (idiom)
Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam)
Valletta, capital of Malta (Tw)
tile-roofed house
Schwab (name)
(math.) Galois theory
to collapse / to fall apart
(coll.) to live off income from rental properties
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Havana, capital of Cuba
Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), Italian operatic tenor
tile / CL: 塊|块
Walloon, inhabitant of Southern French-speaking area of Belgium
megawatt
Tarawa, capital of Kiribati
complete disintegration
gas (loanword)
Vadsø (city in Finnmark, Norway)
pile of rubble / debris
(Tw) Eswatini
Swahili (language) / Kiswahili
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
Wardak (Afghan province)
eaves-tile
Navassa
corrugated fiberboard; corrugated cardboard
(loanword) watt
tiles and bricks
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
to melt like ice and break like tiles / to disintegrate / to dissolve
Córdoba, Spain
Delacroix (painter)
the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated
Walter
green / glazed tile
El Salvador
(loanword) dacquoise (a French dessert)
Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia
Vasilievich (name)
to collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble / to disrupt; to break up
tiling / bricklaying / plastering
Varna (city in Bulgaria)
Évariste Galois (1811–1832), French mathematician
Moldovan (person)
Swahili
bricklayer / tiler / mason
lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling
Sava River, flowing through Southeast Europe
(name) Vasily; Vasiliy
bricklayer / tiler
Wakhan Corridor, panhandle in the northeast of Afghanistan sharing a border with China at its eastern end
Siwa, Egypt
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady, the main river of Myanmar
a sour (type of cocktail) (loanword)
asbestos roofing sheet (corrugated)
Oswald
(Tw) Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Wroclaw, Polish city
Swat province in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947–), Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and politician, governor of California (2003–2011)
Navajo
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
room tiles
Wafangdian, a county-level city in Dalian City 大連市|大连市, Liaoning
megawatt-hour
Swaziland (Tw)
Oirat Mongols (alliance of tribes of Western Mongolia) (Ming Dynasty term)
Varyag, former Soviet aircraft carrier purchased by China and renamed 遼寧號|辽宁号
Rojava (de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria)
Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
(loanword) fatwa
Botswana
Duvalier (name)
poisonous gas / stinking fart
Vakhsh river (upper reaches of Amu Darya)
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa
Iowa, US state
tiling (of roofs, floors, walls etc)
Svolvær (city in Nordland, Norway)
milliwatt
ink slab
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967), Cuban Revolution leader

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