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| | generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods / abbr. for Vietnam 越南 | |
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| | Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3] | |
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| | non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和) | |
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| | Southeast Asia | |
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| | Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) | |
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| | Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent; (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia | |
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| | East Asia | |
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| | Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia | |
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| | Asia-Pacific | |
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| | Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged / the Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼, Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas") | |
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| | Southwest Asia | |
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| | southern Asia | |
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| | Nanzhao kingdom 738-937 in southwest China and southeast Asia | |
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| | Southeast Asia / South seas | |
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| | Asian Games | |
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| | the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia | |
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| | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate | |
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| | Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia / surname Yao | |
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| | Mahayana, the Great Vehicle / Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond / also pr. [Da4 cheng2] | |
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| | Central Asia | |
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| | Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs | |
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| | yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations) | |
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| | Europe and Asia / Eurasia | |
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| | Parthia (ancient country in central Asia) | |
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| | Asia-Pacific region | |
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| | ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang | |
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| | of Asian descent | |
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| | Tartar (various northern tribes in ancient China) / Tatar (Turkic ethnic group in central Asia) | |
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| | Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong) | |
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| | North Asia | |
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| | (coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person) / layman / amateur | |
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| | Asian Development Bank | |
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| | the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏) | |
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| | long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao | |
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| | Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country | |
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| | Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) (CL: 條|条) | |
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| | Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia | |
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| | Asia, Africa and Latin America | |
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| | the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia | |
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| | Stein (name) / Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist known for his expeditions to Central Asia | |
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| | the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia | |
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| | Asia | |
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| | Lancang River of Qinghai and Yunnan, the upper reaches of Mekong River 湄公河 of Southeast Asia | |
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| | ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) | |
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| | (Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism | |
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| | the Greater Yuezhi, a branch of the Yuezhi 月氏 people of central Asia during the Han dynasty | |
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| | Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia) | |
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| | Yollig Taxin or Yelü Dashi (1087-1143), Chinese-educated Khitan leader, founder of Western Liao 西遼|西辽 in Central Asia | |
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| | ancient state of central Asia | |
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| | Ili River in central Asia | |
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| | Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States | |
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| | Western Liao, Khitan kingdom of central Asia 1132-1218 | |
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| | East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer) | |
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| | Japan (old) / East Asian countries | |
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| | Xenocypris, genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia | |
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| | Bagarius, an Asian genus of catfishes | |
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| | fish of genus Sarcocheilichthys (a genus of cyprinid fishes found in eastern Asia) | |
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| | Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir to Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan / formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islamic writers | |
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| | Asian mugwort or wormwood (genus Artemesia) | |
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| | water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia / Taiwan pr. [yong1] | |
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| | Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿|近卫文麿 in 1938 | |
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| | Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka North Vietnam), a country in Southeast Asia 1945-1976 | |
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| | ancient bamboo reed instrument / Chinese shawm (probably related to central Asian zurna) | |
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| | Anatolia / Asia Minor | |
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| | Report of the regions west of Great Tang / travel record of Xuan Zang 玄奘 on his travels to Central Asia and India | |
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| | Asia Minor / Anatolia | |
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| | karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East) | |
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| | ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty | |
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| | the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards / Xionites (Central Asian nomads) | |
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| | Hu music / central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) | |
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| | three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o | |
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| | Central Asia | |
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| | Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia | |
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| | Ochetobius elongatus, species of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia | |
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| | Shule, oasis state in central Asia (near modern Kashgar) at different historical periods | |
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| | morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries) | |
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| | (loanword) chapan, a traditional collarless coat worn in Central Asian countries | |
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| | Altai republic in Russian central Asia, capital Gorno-Altaysk | |
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| | Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia | |
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| | laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia | |
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| | Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia) | |
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| | to abandon the old (Asian) ways and learn from Europe / refers to the ideas that led to the Meiji Restoration and Japan's subsequent colonization projects in Asia | |
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| | the Far East / East Asia | |
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| | East Asian Games | |
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| | the Far East / East Asia | |
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| | laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia | |
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| | Funan, ancient state in Southeast Asia (1st - 6th century) | |
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| | Bank of East Asia | |
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| | Northeast Asia | |
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| | banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance | |
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| | Radio Free Asia | |
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| | Happy sheep (group of five cartoon sheep), mascot of 2010 Guangzhou Asian games 廣州亞運會|广州亚运会 | |
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| | Asian Cup | |
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| | ancient bamboo reed instrument / Chinese shawm (probably related to central Asian zurna) | |
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| | (loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste) | |
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