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hot-headed; impulsive; reckless
HSK 7-9
coarse / crude (in one's manner) / boorish
HSK 7-9
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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)
Cyrus (name)
Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana
Rouen (France)
Subaru
blues (music) (loanword)
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific
Kailu county in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
(Tw) (slang) (loanword) loser
History of Kingdom Lu / refers to the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋
alternative name for Shandong 山東|山东
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
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
Perugia (city in Italy)
Prussia (historical German state)
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
Peru
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Andrew (name)
Georgia (country)
Yale
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
Lushan county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山, Henan
Bruges (Dutch Brugge), medieval town in Belgium
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925–2022), British theater director
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
Kota Bharu, city in Malaysia on border with Thailand, capital of Kelantan sultanate
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi
Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name / Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-2011), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician / Lhalu suburb of Lhasa
Wuqia county in Xinjiang / name of county in Xinjiang from early 20th century now called Wuqia 烏恰縣|乌恰县
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
dull-witted; foolish
Tergüel or Teruel, Spain
stupid / slow on the uptake
Bosphorus
Shandong cuisine
old Chinese name for Hormuz / now called 霍爾木茲|霍尔木兹
Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
Rubin (name) / Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton
Lu Su or Lu Zijing 魯子敬|鲁子敬 (172-217), statesman, diplomat and strategist of Eastern Wu 東吳|东吴
person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
(loanword) semaglutide – drug used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, marketed under the trademarks Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy
robustness
Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute
Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet
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
Uluru, massive sandstone outcrop in central Australia
Leuven (a town in Belgium famous for its university)
Yale University
the Turpan Depression in Xinjiang
Cthulhu, fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft
Santa Cruz
Farouk of Egypt (1920-1965), king of Egypt 1936-1952
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
Rhythm and Blues R&B
Brucella (infectious disease)
Georgian (person)
guru (loanword)
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also called 檀香山
Zulu
Taroko National Park in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, Taiwan / Taroko ethnic group Taiwan
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi
the Bosphorus (strait)
robust (loanword) / solid
Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon
Urumqi county (Uighur: Ürümchi Nahiyisi) in Urumqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐, Xinjiang
Brooklyn Bridge
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
Bengkulu (Indonesian town on the south coast of Sumatra)
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Bengkulu (Indonesian town on the south coast of Sumatra)
Rukai, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism
St Andrew
Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times
Bosphorus
Taroko, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Brunei Darussalam
Proudhonism, 19th century socialist theory
Rotorua, city in New Zealand
Lushan county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山, Henan
Örebro (city in Sweden)
(Mount) Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains, southwest Russia

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