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bridegroom; groom
HSK 4
boyfriend / paramour (of a woman)
men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb)
one leg over the other (legs crossed)
young woman / maiden / girl / CL: 個|个,
doctor (Chinese medicine) / ancient official title / companions (respectful)
franc / CL: 個|个
Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / Altair (star)
cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute
sloppy
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  *郎* | 郎* | *郎
surname Lang
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(arch.) minister / official / noun prefix denoting function or status / a youth
call girl
brave man, willing to risk his life
Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766), Jesuit missionary and artist who served as a painter in the Qing court for 50 years
Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
bridegroom; groom
Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom) / fig. to have used up one's creative powers / to have writer's block
Erlangshen, Chinese deity
my husband and master (archaic) / playboy of rich family / pimp
Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty / Arirang, series of Korean earth observation space satellites
general of the household, a mid-ranking military officer responsible for palace or court duties
Langxi, a county in Xuancheng City 宣城市, Anhui
(Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards / (also an official title in earlier dynasties)
talented man and beautiful woman / ideal couple
small barbarian kingdom in southern China during the Han dynasty
(coll.) tomcat
your esteemed son (honorific)
Lang Lang (1982-), Chinese concert pianist
Momotaro or Peach Boy, the hero of a Japanese folk tale / (Tw) Japanese person
(coll.) feeder pig
bridegroom; groom
pit babe / paddock girl / grid girl
Dolan, a people of the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, also known as 多郎
Oe Kenzaburo (1935-) Japanese novelist and 1994 Nobel laureate
to stick one leg over the other (when sitting)
SHIBA Ryotarō (1923-1996), Japanese author of historical novels
KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006
(slang) to ask for money / to lend money
Swiss franc (currency)
ideal husband; Mr. Right
(Catholicism) Abraham
Ishihara Shintarō (1932-), Japanese author and politician, governor of Tokyo 1999-2012
best man; groomsman
lit. Yelang thinks highly of itself (idiom) / fig. foolish conceit
ancient official title
TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger
to stick one leg over the other (when sitting)
HASHIMOTO Ryūtarō (1937-2006), Japanese politician, prime minister 1996-1998
sb who purchases a public post
Langevin (name)
Jenny Lang Ping (1960–), Chinese former volleyball player and coach
Rankine cycle (engineering)
ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister from 2008


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