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Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi
coarse / crude (in one's manner) / boorish
HSK 7-9
Cthulhu, fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
hot-headed; impulsive; reckless
HSK 7-9
Turpan, prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Ürümqi, prefecture-level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
Uluru, massive sandstone outcrop in central Australia
blues (music) (loanword)
the Turpan Depression in Xinjiang
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surname Lu / Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东
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(bound form) crass / stupid / rude / (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)
Rukai, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also called 檀香山
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
(Tw) (slang) (loanword) loser
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism
Georgia (country)
Urumqi county (Uighur: Ürümchi Nahiyisi) in Urumqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐, Xinjiang
Yale University
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
crude and ill-educated (idiom)
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
Zulu
person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person
Innsbruck, city in Austria
Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), prime minister of Canada 1980-1984 and 1968-1979 / Justin Trudeau (1971-), prime minister of Canada from 2015
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Bosphorus
Anglo-Saxon (people)
Rhythm and Blues R&B
Kota Bharu, city in Malaysia on border with Thailand, capital of Kelantan sultanate
Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name / Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-2011), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician / Lhalu suburb of Lhasa
Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝, located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东, birthplace of Confucius
Brucella (infectious disease)
Bengkulu (Indonesian town on the south coast of Sumatra)
Prussia (historical German state)
Uluru, iconic large rock formation in central Australia, sacred to Aboriginals, a World Heritage Site / also known as Ayers Rock
Peruvian ground-cherry / cape gooseberry / Physalis peruviana
Lu Zijing or Lu Su 魯肅|鲁肃 (172-217), statesman, diplomat and strategist of Eastern Wu 東吳|东吴
Rubin (name) / Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton
Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon
jitterbug (loanword)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
Bosphorus
Peru
Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet
Rubik's cube / magic cube
the Bosphorus (strait)
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
(onom.) the sound of a rolling object
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Rouen (France)
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific (Tw)
dull-witted; foolish
Aruba, island in the Caribbean, a self-governing part of the Netherlands
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
Taroko National Park in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, Taiwan / Taroko ethnic group Taiwan
Subaru
Brutus (name)
kuru (medicine)
St Andrew
the Ruhr, region in Germany
Cyrus (name)
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
Lushan, a county in Pingdingshan City 平頂山市|平顶山市, Henan
robust (loanword) / solid
Taroko, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
the cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Anhui (the eight major cuisines of China 八大菜系)
Zulu people
Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925–2022), British theater director
Proudhonism, 19th century socialist theory
Ludian county in Zhaotong 昭通, Yunnan
Yale
guru (loanword)
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific
Ludwig (name) / Ludovic (name)
Ruhr River, a tributary of the Rhine in Germany
(chemistry) (loanword) luminol
Bengkulu (Indonesian town on the south coast of Sumatra)
Örebro (city in Sweden)
Holbrook (name) / Richard C.A. Holbrooke (1941-2010), US diplomat, influential in brokering 1995 Dayton Bosnian peace deal, US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009
the Louvre
root beer

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