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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *羅* | 羅* | *羅
gauze / to collect / to gather / to catch / to sift
HSK 7-9
surname Arroyo
(Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell
Rolls-Royce (UK company) / also written 勞斯萊斯|劳斯莱斯
nickname of Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo
Pingluo county in Shizuishan 石嘴山, Ningxia
Ronaldo (name) / Cristiano Ronaldo (1985-), Portuguese soccer player
Rhone, river of Switzerland and France
Gibraltar
Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
Othello (play by Shakespeare)
proletariat (loanword) / abbr. for 普羅列塔利亞|普罗列塔利亚
the Palace of the King of Hell 閻王|阎王
Joan Miró (1893-1983), Spanish surrealist painter
North Carolina, US state
Luo Ronghuan (1902-1963), Chinese communist military leader
Gandhara Kingdom in northwest India, c. 600 BC-11 AD, on Kabul River in Vale of Peshawar
Mitt Romney (1947-), US Republican contender 2012
Apollo (loanword)
Brahmanism / Hinduism
Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
Luodong or Lotong Town in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan
Europe / abbr. to 歐洲|欧洲
Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD)
Luoding, a county-level city in Yunfu City 雲浮市|云浮市, Guangdong
Solomon Islands
baroque (period in Western art history) (loanword)
North Carolina, US state
Russia
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
Tim Robbins (1958-), American actor, director, activist and musician
Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), Italian scientist
(loanword) rum
José Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, prime minister of Portugal 2002-04, president of EU Commission from 2004-2014
Roberts
Luozhuang district of Linyi city 臨沂市|临沂市, Shandong
jackfruit / breadfruit / Artocarpus heterophyllus
Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as writing media
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
Guadeloupe
(botany) common stock; gillyflower (Matthiola incana) / (botany) violet
Raziel, archangel in Judaism
romance (loanword) / love affair
Yamoussoukro (city in the Ivory Coast)
Roman Tam (1945–2002), Canto-pop singer
Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed
the Church (as Royal Court) / the Holy See / the Vatican
Jurassic (geological period 205-140m years ago)
Monroe (name) / James Monroe (1758-1831), fifth US president
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *羅* | 羅* | *羅
surname Luo
Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400), author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other works
Republic of Croatia
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) (Tw)
to hunch one's back (coll.) / a hunchback
Silla, Korean kingdom that existed between 57 BC – 935 AD, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, later allied with Tang China to defeat its rivals Baekje 百濟|百济 and Goguryeo 高句麗|高句丽 to form Unified Silla / see 新羅區|新罗区
Europe
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
Rome, capital of Italy
(Buddhism) arhat (abbr. for 阿羅漢|阿罗汉)
net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella
tarot (loanword)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Renaissance painter and sculptor
Brahmin
dogbane (Apocynum venetum), leaves used in TCM
Polo (car made by Volkswagen) / surname Polo
(loanword) chloroform; trichloromethane CHCl3
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman statesman, orator and philosopher
Rosa (name)
Paul
Colosseum (Rome)
compass / same as 羅盤|罗盘
(loanword) romantic
lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
Roland (name)
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology
the Ramayana (Indian epic)
Roth, Ross, Rose or Rossi (name) / Kenneth Roth (1955-), executive director of Human Rights Watch 人權觀察|人权观察 / Rus' (as in Kievan Rus' 基輔羅斯|基辅罗斯)
Robert (name)
Alfa Romeo
Cairo University
(botany) devil's trumpet (Datura stramonium) (loanword from Sanskrit "māndāra") / mandala (loanword from Sanskrit "maṇḍala")
Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)
Croatia
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Solomon (name)
Russell (name) / Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist
tempura / deep-fried cooking / also called 甜不辣
Romania
Roosevelt (name) / Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909 / Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945
Roman law
Lawrence (city in Kansas, USA)
Romeo (name)
compass
Raleigh, capital of North Carolina
World Wide Web (WWW) / lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth / term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網|万维网
Cairo, capital of Egypt
many things arranged together, or connected together / to go on limitlessly
to employ / to recruit (talented personnel) / to gather together (a team)

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