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Asian Games
HSK 4
Asian Cup
Asia, Africa and Latin America
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia
Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called toddy cat
Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization / APEC
East Asia
Southeast Asia
Ili River in central Asia
Asia (abbr. for 亞細亞洲|亚细亚洲)
Asia-Pacific
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  *蕹* | 蕹* | *蕹
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia / Taiwan pr. [yong1]
APEC (Asia Pacific economic cooperation)
Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent; (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia
Asia-Pacific region
ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer)
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
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  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written )
Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
Central Asian grasslands
of Asian descent
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  *鰁* | 鰁* | *鰁
fish of genus Sarcocheilichthys (a genus of cyprinid fishes found in eastern Asia)
Asia
Asian Games
southern Asia
Asian Winter Games
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka North Vietnam), a country in Southeast Asia 1945-1976
ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, Xinjiang
North Asia
Banco Delta Asia S.A.R.L., Macau
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, abbr. for 亞洲基礎設施投資銀行|亚洲基础设施投资银行
the Far East / East Asia
Southeast Asia / South seas
Mahayana, the Great Vehicle / Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond / also pr. [Da4 cheng2]
Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
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  *越* | 越* | *越
generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods / abbr. for Vietnam 越南
Greater China / refers to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (esp. in finance and economics) / refers to all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)
East Asian Games
Central Asia
morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries)
Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country
Europe and Asia / Eurasia
yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)
Wusun kingdom of central Asia (c. 300 BC-300 AD)
Central Asia
Eurasian hinterland (i.e. Central Asia including Xinjiang)
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
Asian Development Bank
(bird species of China) Asian fairy-bluebird (Irena puella)
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
Funan, ancient state in Southeast Asia (1st - 6th century)
char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
Radio Free Asia
(loanword) chapan, a traditional collarless coat worn in Central Asian countries
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  *佤* | 佤* | *佤
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the governing body of football (soccer) in Asia
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance
Japan (old) / East Asian countries
three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o
Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
Asian Cup
Anatolia / Asia Minor
a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself) / Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia
(derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars)
(Tw) ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
the Far East / East Asia
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  *魾* | 魾* | *魾
Bagarius, an Asian genus of catfishes
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate
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  *亞* | 亞* | *亞
Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3]
(bird species of China) Asian barred owlet (Glaucidium cuculoides)
Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭|楼兰 / also written 斯文·赫定
(coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person) / layman / amateur
(Tw) high-grafted pear (a variety of Asian pear grown in Taiwan, produced by grafting scions from high-altitude or high-latitude regions onto local rootstocks, adapting them to Taiwan's subtropical climate)
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
Bank of East Asia
Karakhan Dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
Parthia (ancient country in central Asia)
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
Tokharian people of central Asia
Northeast Asia
Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
double eyelid / epicanthal fold of upper eyelid (characteristic of Asian people)
Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)
ancient state of central Asia
Przevalski horse (Equus przewalskii) wild horse of Central Asia first identified in 1881 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基
Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women's singles)
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
Sufi sect of Islam in central Asia
(bird species of China) Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans)
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  *䲘* | 䲘* | *䲘
Ochetobius elongatus, species of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia
Asian area / the Far East / Asia Pacific region
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
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870

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