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asynchronous
very; really / unusual; extraordinary
HSK 1
atypical pneumonia / Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / SARS
non-nuclear
African (person)
sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis
irregular; disordered
deleveraging (i.e. paying off part of a leverage loan)
non-governmental organization (NGO)
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  *非* | 非* | *非
abbr. for 非洲, Africa
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  *非* | 非* | *非
to not be; not / wrong; incorrect / non-; un-; in-; de- / to reproach; to blame / (coll.) to insist on; simply must
HSK 4
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
lit. cannot be done in one day (idiom) / fig. will take much time and effort to accomplish
much / very many
non-party
African Union
extremely grateful; very thankful
dehumanization
not only
inhuman / (literary) an unworthy person (to appoint, to marry etc)
non-fiction
non-governmental
of African descent
a nonnegative number (i.e. positive or zero)
unofficial; informal
nonprofit / not for profit
abnormal / irregular
atypical pneumonia / Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / SARS
unstratified
an emergency measure
(of a medical condition) not fatal; not life-threatening
unpremeditated
out of the ordinary / unusually (good, talented etc)
HSK 7-9
Africa / abbr. for 阿非利加洲
demilitarized zone
secular (society) / non-religious (party)
unbalance / disequilibrium
unnatural / occult
extremely important / no small matter
non-equilibrium / disequilibrium / unbalance
non-numeric
East African Rift Valley
impolite / impropriety / to sexually harass
nonmetal (chemistry)
improper / presumptuous / assuming / overstepping one's bounds / also written 非分
an illegitimate child
wealthy and respectable people
unconditioned reflex (physiology)
non-metropolitan county (England)
inessential / unnecessary
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)
not only
it's yours exclusively (idiom) / you are the one / only you deserve it / only you can do it
either this or that / one or the other
over-the-counter drug; OTC drug
lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom) / fig. unrelated to one another in any way
alternative / non-mainstream
unofficial; informal
(followed by a verb phrase, then – optionally – 不可, or 不行 etc) must
HSK 7-9
non-motorized vehicle
Horn of Africa
nonlinear (math.)
to want absolutely; to insist on (doing sth)
nonzero
reproof / blame
improper / presumptuous / assuming / overstepping one's bounds / also written 非份
nonviolent
denuclearization
Facebook (Internet slang, pun reading "you must die")
(UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage
non-state actor
inanimacy
non-nuclear country
nonprofit organization
not only / not merely
out of the ordinary
unstratified rock
a nonpositive number (i.e. negative or zero)
to criticize
(math.) non-abelian
inessential
modeless (computing)
nonrecursive
inhomogeneous
nonconductor (of electricity, heat etc)
nuclear-free zone
(math.) (of a set) non-empty; (computing) (of a data structure) non-empty
nonlinear optics (physics)
off-peak
born out of wedlock / illegitimate
unnatural death; violent death
non-Latin characters
non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS)
non-Euclidean geometry
the Philistines, who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century BC
single origin out of Africa (current mainstream theory of human evolution)
nonstandard / unconventional
African Union (AU) (abbr. for 非洲聯盟|非洲联盟)

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