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Asian Games
HSK 4
Asia Minor / Anatolia
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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
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
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  *亞* | 亞* | *亞
Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3]
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent; (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia
East Asia
Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia
Asia-Pacific
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")
Southwest Asia
Asia (abbr. for 亞細亞洲|亚细亚洲)
southern Asia
Southeast Asia / South seas
Southeast Asia
Asian Games
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate
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  *瑤* | 瑤* | *瑤
Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia / surname Yao
Mahayana, the Great Vehicle / Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond / also pr. [Da4 cheng2]
Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs
Europe and Asia / Eurasia
Parthia (ancient country in central Asia)
Asia-Pacific region
Tartar (various northern tribes in ancient China) / Tatar (Turkic ethnic group in central Asia)
Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)
North Asia
of Asian descent
(coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person) / layman / amateur
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non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written )
Asian Development Bank
the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏)
Central Asia
Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) (CL:條|条)
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia
Asia, Africa and Latin America
Stein (name) / Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Hungarian-born British archaeologist known for his expeditions to Central Asia
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
Report of the regions west of Great Tang / travel record of Xuan Zang 玄奘 on his travels to Central Asia and India
(Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism
the Greater Yuezhi, a branch of the Yuezhi 月氏 people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)
Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
Ili River in central Asia
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
Western Liao, Khitan kingdom of central Asia 1132-1218
East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer)
Nanzhao kingdom 738-937 in southwest China and southeast Asia
Hu music / central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati)
Japan (old) / East Asian countries
ancient state of central Asia
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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  *魾* | 魾* | *魾
Bagarius, an Asian genus of catfishes
three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o
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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  *蕹* | 蕹* | *蕹
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia / Taiwan pr. [yong1]
Asian mugwort or wormwood (genus Artemesia)
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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  *鯝* | 鯝* | *鯝
Xenocypris, genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia
Central Asia
ancient bamboo reed instrument / Chinese shawm (probably related to central Asian zurna)
Anatolia / Asia Minor
karez, qanat or "horizontal well" (irrigation and water management system used in Xinjiang, Central Asia and Middle East)
ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty
the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards / Xionites (Central Asian nomads)
(bird species of China) Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus)
morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries)
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  *鰁* | 鰁* | *鰁
fish of genus Sarcocheilichthys (a genus of cyprinid fishes found in eastern Asia)
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  *佤* | 佤* | *佤
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
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  *䲘* | 䲘* | *䲘
Ochetobius elongatus, species of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia
(loanword) chapan, a traditional collarless coat worn in Central Asian countries
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
the Far East / East Asia
Altai republic in Russian central Asia, capital Gorno-Altaysk
Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
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
Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women's singles)
Funan, ancient state in Southeast Asia (1st - 6th century)
the Far East / East Asia
char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
Bank of East Asia
Asian Winter Games
Asian Cup
Northeast Asia
banana person (yellow outside, white inside) / mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans / Westernized person of Asian appearance
Radio Free 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)
Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called toddy cat
Happy sheep (group of five cartoon sheep), mascot of 2010 Guangzhou Asian games 廣州亞運會|广州亚运会
cendol, Southeast Asian iced sweet dessert
Asian Cup
East Asian Games
(loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste)
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
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
East Asia Summit, annual meeting of leading Asian states
(bird species of China) Asian green bee-eater (Merops orientalis)

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