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  *二* | 二* | *二
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
HSK 1
indirectly acquired / second-hand (information, equipment etc) / assistant
HSK 4
2D barcode; matrix code / (esp.) QR code
HSK 5
binary system (math.)
World War II
twenty; 20
21st century
carbon dioxide CO2
HSK 7-9
secondly, ...
one half
second best person / second-rate person
World War Two
two-dimensional / the fictional worlds of anime, comics and games
second-rate / second-tier
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
(coll.) silly but cute husky (dog)
second generation
20th century
idiot / stupid person / a dope
name of a famous opera / (slang) to go to jail for a second offense
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
over 20
February
twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)
second-hand car
HSK 7-9
deputy leader / the second-in-command
(idiom) not saying anything further; not raising any objection; without demur
second child / second baby
second-hand goods / used goods
(slang) fool / dunce / foolishly cute person
the Japanese Twenty-One Demands of 1915
diode
titanium dioxide
second pregnancy
dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil)
two-dimensional
second-hand smoke
blackjack (card game)
duality / dual / bipolar / binary
2-in-1 / two-in-one
square (i.e. x times x)
(math.) quadratic equation
nitrogen dioxide
second round (of a match or election)
second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
double / repeated twice
two items / binomial (math.)
mistress / second wife / lover
lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty
second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
second tone
xylene
the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story
quadratic curve (geometry) / conic
nunchaku (weapon with two rods joined by a short chain, used in martial arts)
both / both of them / neither
mitral valve (physiology)
dualism / two sided / double nature
(law) second instance; second trial
second-class citizen
grade 2 / second class / category B
Erlangshen, Chinese deity
second order / quadratic (math.)
stupid person / dolt / rash (slang)
duet
quadratic curve / conic section (geometry)
the twenty-eight constellations
the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
sulfur dioxide SO2
dioxin
16-year-old beauty
February / second month (of the lunar year)
World War Two
diphthong
(math.) quadratic polynomial
(math.) binomial coefficient
middleman / buyer and seller
again; twice / (music) second (i.e. an interval between adjacent notes)
diploid (in cell biology)
the Second (of numbered kings) / second generation (e.g. Chinese Americans)
erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle) / alto fiddle / CL:
second class cabin
sublandlord / tenant who sublets
lit. secondary foreigner / (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion) / (coll.) westernized Chinese person / (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood / (slang) Ukraine / German shepherd dog / (dialect) two-year-old goat
Ershui or Erhshui Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
dimer (chemistry)
index finger
manganese(iv) oxide
minim (music)
sergeant
mother and father / parents
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初
Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords
brown oxidier / uranium dioxide
a double root of an equation
the binomial theorem (math.)

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