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HSK
nylon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
Mauritania
Nigeria
Sony (former name of the company used prior to 2009 in some markets including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, now replaced by 索尼 in all markets)
Indonesia
Martinique (French Caribbean island)
München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia
Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, Canada
Indonesia (abbr. for 印度尼西亞|印度尼西亚)
Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼 founder of Buddhism (also written 嵐毘尼|岚毗尼, 臘伐尼|腊伐尼, 林微尼)
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  *尼* | 尼* | *尼
Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)
Nissan, Japanese car make / also transliterated 尼桑
Tanzania
Nikon corporation
Venice / Venezia
bikini (loanword)
Nepal
California
Sony
damping
Daniel (name)
Romania
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
honey (term of endearment) (loanword)
Danny (name)
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  *释* | 释* | *释
to explain / to release / Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / Buddhism
Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1900), German philosopher
Disney, American entertainment conglomerate / Walt Disney (1901-1966), American animator and film producer
Minnesota, USA
Kennedy (name) / J.F. Kennedy (1917-1963), US Democrat politician, president 1961-1963
Armenia
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
Bologna
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
true statement / incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼)
the Nile (river in northeastern Africa)
Heineken (Dutch brewing company) / see also 海尼根
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")
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time
Slovenia
Anthony (name)
Pennsylvania
Richard Nixon (1913-1994), US president 1969-1974 / surname Nixon
Nissan, Japanese car make
Trinidad
El Niño, equatorial climate variation in the Pacific
Estonia
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Bosnia
Armani (fashion designer)
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
Buddhist nun
Manila, capital of Philippines
Phoenix, capital of Arizona / also 鳳凰城|凤凰城
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966), US admiral
New Caledonia
Nicaragua
Anna Sergeevna Kournikova (1981-), Russian tennis star and glamor model
Nielsen or Nelson (name)
(name) Tony
San Antonio, Texas
Hennessy (cognac)
Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969), Belgian-French explorer and writer who traveled in Tibet in the 1920s
(name) Kenyon; Canyon
Niger (African state) / Niger River, West Africa
Leibniz (name) / Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher, co-inventor of the calculus
Winnie the Pooh
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
Pennsylvania / abbr. for 賓夕法尼亞州|宾夕法尼亚州
Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist and composer
Tunisia / Tunis, capital of Tunisia
Tasmania (Tw)
Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy (1929-1994)
Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009
nylon buckle / velcro
Kenya
Albania
Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis
Virginia, US state (Tw)
Dennis (name)
Guinness (name)
Sunni sect (of Islam)
Dominica (Commonwealth of Dominica)
Shaquille O'Neal (1972-), former NBA star
Catalonia
Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia
Nyêmo county, Tibetan: Snye mo rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨, Tibet
(Internet slang) alternative for 你媽|你妈 / (transcription from Tibetan) the sun
penicillin (loanword)
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Panchen (Lama) / abbr. for 班禪額爾德尼|班禅额尔德尼
variant of 弗吉尼亞州|弗吉尼亚州 / Virginia, US state
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)

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