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coarse / crude (in one's manner) / boorish
HSK 7-9
hot-headed; impulsive; reckless
HSK 7-9
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific (Tw)
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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)
Taroko National Park in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, Taiwan / Taroko ethnic group Taiwan
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
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
Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers
Ruhr River, a tributary of the Rhine in Germany
Andrew (name)
blues (music) (loanword)
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925-2022), British theater director
Zulu
Kailu county in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific
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
Prussia (historical German state)
Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name / Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-2011), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician / Lhalu suburb of Lhasa
Yale
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
Rubin (name) / Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
Lu Su or Lu Zijing 魯子敬|鲁子敬 (172-217), statesman, diplomat and strategist of Eastern Wu 東吳|东吴
Lushan county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山, Henan
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964
Kailu county in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Anglo-
Lushan county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山, Henan
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also called 檀香山
lute (loanword)
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism
Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times
Ludian county in Zhaotong 昭通, Yunnan
Bruges (Dutch Brugge), medieval town in Belgium
dull-witted; foolish
Cyrus (name)
Yale University
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
Urumqi county (Uighur: Ürümchi Nahiyisi) in Urumqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐, Xinjiang
Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi
Ludian county in Zhaotong 昭通, Yunnan
Brutus (name)
person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person
Perugia (city in Italy)
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
stupid / slow on the uptake
Brutus (name) / Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC), late Roman Republic politician who conspired against Julius Caesar / Lucius Junius Brutus (6th c. BC), founder of the Roman Republic
Rukai, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
Tuvalu, island country in the SW Pacific (Tw)
Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
Brucella (infectious disease)
(onom.) the sound of a rolling object
the Turpan Depression in Xinjiang
Innsbruck, city in Austria
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
Rotorua, city in New Zealand
guru (loanword)
Rouen (France)
Subaru
Kota Bharu, city in Malaysia on border with Thailand, capital of Kelantan sultanate
Bengkulu (Indonesian town on the south coast of Sumatra)
Leuven (a town in Belgium famous for its university)
Tergüel or Teruel, Spain
Shandong cuisine
Örebro (city in Sweden)
Peru
History of Kingdom Lu / refers to the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋
robustness
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French socialist philosopher
Georgian (person)
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
the lord of Lu (who declined to employ Confucius)
the Ruhr, region in Germany
Cthulhu, fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft
Bosphorus
(Mount) Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains, southwest Russia
(loanword) semaglutide – drug used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, marketed under the trademarks Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy
jitterbug (loanword)
Taroko, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon
the cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Anhui (the eight major cuisines of China 八大菜系)
Brooklyn Bridge
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Bloomsbury, London district
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi

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