| | male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to act for sb else / to act on sb's behalf / an agent / a diplomatic representative / a chargé d'affaires | |
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| | grade 4 / fourth class / category D | |
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| | Ph.D. advisor | |
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| | Washington (name) / George Washington (1732-1799), first US president / Washington, US State / Washington, D.C. (US federal capital) | |
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| | Washington, D.C. / the US federal government | |
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| | coup d'état | |
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| | to fail to accomplish / unsuccessful (attempt); abortive (coup d'état); attempted (murder, suicide); unfulfilled (wish) | |
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| | Roosevelt (name) / Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909 / Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945 | |
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| | Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English / also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan | |
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| | Georgetown University in Washington D.C., famous as quality Jesuit university and for its basketball team | |
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| | D'Alembert (1717-1783), French mathematician | |
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| | Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961 | |
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| | aspiration (phonetics, explosion of breath on consonants distinguishing Chinese p, t from b, d) | |
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| | Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa | |
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| | (PRC) (D- or C-class) high-speed train / power car / multiple-unit train (abbr. for 動車組|动车组) | |
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| | appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre | |
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| | I.D. number | |
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| | names of the notes of a musical scale (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi) | |
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| | (in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan etc) speed setting | |
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| | it'd be a wonder if... (following a verb phrase that is usually negative) | |
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| | depleted uranium (D-38) | |
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| | Washington D.C. (US federal capital) | |
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| | Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. | |
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| | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, R&D center in Pasadena, California | |
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| | Jonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The Search for Modern China 追尋現代中國|追寻现代中国 | |
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| | (slang) the norm; typical behavior; nothing out of the ordinary; just what you’d expect (often used ironically) (abbr. for 基本操作) | |
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| | Republic of Côte d'Ivoire | |
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| | 91 BC attempted coup d'etat against Emperor Wu of Han 漢武帝|汉武帝, beginning with accusations of witchcraft | |
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| | Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast (Tw) | |
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| | apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t) | |
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| | (loanword) coup d'état | |
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| | D size battery | |
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| | hepatitis D | |
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| | lit. if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (idiom) / fig. (of a person) too slow; can't keep up | |
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| | fundamental doctrine / guiding principle / raison d'être | |
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| | to verify / (math.) Q.E.D. | |
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| | François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664-1741), French Jesuit missionary to Kangxi court | |
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| | S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician / also pr. [Po1 song1] | |
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| | (loanword) coup d'état | |
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| | In Search of Modern China by Jonathan D Spence 史景遷|史景迁 | |
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| | I'd like to hear the details | |
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