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(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just
HSK 1
front line / forefront
HSK 7-9
step one / first step
World War II
dinar (currency) (loanword)
first-hand
HSK 7-9
first quarter (of financial year)
Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)
third quarter (of financial year)
third party
second quarter (of financial year)
second place
first round (of match, or election)
the fourth estate; the press
(geopolitics) First Island Chain, strategic arc of islands including Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines
the first pot of gold / the initial profits from an economic endeavour
Type 2 diabetes
first / most important; primary; foremost
sixth sense / intuition
fourth quarter (of financial year)
tertiary sector of industry
in the first moments (of sth happening) / immediately (after an event) / first thing
third place
third person (grammar)
second / number two / next / secondary
the second time / second / number two
fifth column (subversive group)
First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866
(math.) first fundamental form
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list
(Tw) Des Moines, capital of Iowa
the second person / (fig.) someone else / third party
first level
(lit.) second spring / (fig.) falling in love for the second time / a new lease of life / rebirth
World War One
first-class
fourth quarter
Type 1 diabetes
sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc)
first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive)
second tone in Mandarin / rising tone
next day / the morrow
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)
at first glance / at first sight
territory belonging to a third party (as a neutral location for peace negotiations or as a transit point for indirect travel or trade etc)
the person in charge / the head of the leadership group
first tone in Mandarin / high, level tone
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚
(geopolitics) Second Island Chain, strategic arc of islands stretching from Japan's Bonin Islands to Guam and Papua New Guinea
the first time / first / number one
(zoology) nictitating membrane
fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
First Lady (wife of US president)
first case / first instance / first time (sth is done)
suboptimal health status
primary sector of industry
third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone
Third World
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
second job
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
category 5 / CAT 5 (cable)
thirtieth
(fig.) opening shot
third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
second round (of match, or election)
fifth
First World
secondary industry
Dijon (France)
Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland
fourth tone in Mandarin / falling tone
fourth channel / (in Taiwan) cable TV, FTV
first-person shooter (video game genre)
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986) / abbr. to 二簡|二简


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