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HSK
(loanword) romance
Rowling (name) / Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-), author of the Harry Potter series of novels
lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis), disease caused by schistosome parasitic flatworm
Rome, capital of Italy
Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD)
Rostock (city in Germany)
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gauze / to collect / to gather / to catch / to sift
HSK 7-9
Law Kar-Ying (1946-), Hong Kong actor
Łódź, third largest city of Poland
Roman law
bow-legged / bandy-legged
Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400), author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other works
the Latin alphabet
Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company that focuses on pharmaceuticals and diagnostics
the Louvre, museum in Paris (Tw)
Luozhuang district of Linyi city 臨沂市|临沂市, Shandong
Colosseum (Rome)
romance (loanword) / love affair
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case
compass
Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero)
the Ramayana (Indian epic)
demon in Buddhism / poltergeist in temple that plays tricks on monks and has a taste for their food
Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece
Luodong or Lotong Town in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan
sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
roller (loanword)
dogbane (Apocynum venetum), leaves used in TCM
Luohu, a district of Shenzhen City 深圳市, Guangdong
Roman letters / Roman alphabet
net / fishing net / bird net
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surname Luo
borscht, a traditional beetroot soup
Luoding, a county-level city in Yunfu City 雲浮市|云浮市, Guangdong
Romeo (name)
L'Hôpital's rule (math.) (Tw)
to employ / to recruit (talented personnel) / to gather together (a team)
Romania
the Church (as Royal Court) / the Holy See / the Vatican
caligae (sandals worn by Roman soldiers in ancient times) / (fashion) Roman-style sandals / ankle-strap sandals
romanization
Gallen Lo (1962-), Hong Kong actor and singer
(loanword) romantic
to list / to enumerate / (of buildings, objects etc) to be laid out / to be scattered about
Luo Maodeng (16th century), Ming author of operas and popular fiction
hyperbolic geometry / Lobachevskian geometry
compass / same as 羅盤|罗盘
Rhone, river of Switzerland and France
to scrape together money (abbr. for 羅雀掘鼠|罗雀掘鼠)
(Buddhism) arhat (abbr. for 阿羅漢|阿罗汉)
monk fruit, the sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine of the Curcubitaceae family native to southern China and northern Thailand, used in Chinese medicine
Raziel, archangel in Judaism
Rhone River, France
romance / love affair / more commonly written 羅曼史|罗曼史
Roland (name)
Rochester
Norbulingka (Tibetan: precious garden), summer residence of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
Roman numerals
Logue or Rogge (name) / Jacques Rogge, president of International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Robert (name)
(dialect) Russia
Luoping county in Qujing 曲靖, Yunnan
Rhodes, Mediterranean island
Rochester
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
Pyxis (constellation)
Russell (name) / Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist
Roman sandals / ankle-strap sandals
Roth, Ross, Rose or Rossi (name) / Kenneth Roth (1955-), executive director of Human Rights Watch 人權觀察|人权观察 / Rus' (as in Kievan Rus' 基輔羅斯|基辅罗斯)
Romance language family
Rolle's theorem (in calculus)
a humpback bridge
Rogers
(botany) tamarind
Romeo and Juliet, 1594 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Roberts
a quarrel in which third parties get involved
Luotian, a county in Huanggang City 黃岡市|黄冈市, Hubei
the intersection of the Moon's orbit with the ecliptic in Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit rahu)
Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist), author of Treasure Island 金銀島|金银岛
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), famous Russian chemist and polymath
Lomonosov ridge (in the Artic Ocean)
to record and preserve
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Rojava (de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria)
Rohingya (predominantly Muslim ethnic group primarily residing in Rakhine State, Myanmar)
round frame of a sieve
Rosetta Stone
(loanword) rum
Ronaldo (name) / Cristiano Ronaldo (1985-), Portuguese soccer player
to frame sb / to cook up imaginary charges against sb
a second wall built around a city wall
Luodong or Lotong Town in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan

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