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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
suddenly / by surprise
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surname Ding
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used in 丁丁
(chemistry) butyl group
lilac (Syringa spp) / clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
T-shaped
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
Martin (name)
St Vincent and Grenadines, Caribbean island in Lesser Antilles
butyrolactone
pudding (loanword)
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
butene or butylene C4H8
forty-fourth year D8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1967 or 2027
Nottingham (city in England)
(old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc
Dual Income, No Kids (DINK) (loanword)
gardener
Tintin, cartoon character
(neologism) (slang) penis (丁丁 resembles "JJ", which is short for 雞雞|鸡鸡)
sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc
twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067
Austin or Austen (name) / Austin, Texas / also written 奧斯汀|奥斯汀
fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047
butane
go-kart
diced chicken meat
(in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
thirty-fourth year D10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1957 or 2017
adult male
fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057
able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
sardine (loanword)
tiny bit
butadiene C4H6 / biethylene
(of a male) to come of age / an adult male
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice
to add a son to the family
Kuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia
Ibuprofen or Nurofen / nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), trade names Advil, Motrin, Nuprin etc, used as analgesic and antipyretic, e.g. for arthritis sufferers / also called 布洛芬
total illiterate / unable to read the simplest characters
T-square / set square (carpenter's tool)
Ding Ling (1904-1986), female novelist, author of novel The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河上, attacked during the 1950s as anti-Party
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) / unheeding the lessons of the past
Martin furnace / open hearth furnace / open hearth
Latin (language)
butyl glycol
Kenting, a national park on the southern tip of Taiwan, popular as a tourist destination (abbr. for 墾丁國家公園|垦丁国家公园)
(old) member of local militia
Odin (god in Norse mythology)
Latin (language)
Latin dance
thong (underwear)
Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation
Wu Ding (c. 14th century BC), legendary founder and wise ruler of Shang dynasty
(loanword) nicotine
Ding Lei (1971-), founder and CEO of NetEase 網易|网易
variant of 孤苦伶仃
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
Kung Pao Chicken / spicy diced chicken
Aston Martin
variant of 叮嚀|叮咛
Gulf of Aden
Aden
orange (fruit) (Tw)
Latin alphabet
St Augustine / Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), theologian and Christian philosopher / Sankt Augustin, suburb of Beuel, Bonn, Germany
Saladin (c. 1138-1193)
chicken with cashew nuts
gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, GHB
Sint Maarten, island country in the Caribbean
(loanword) gelatin
isobutane
Chinese brand name of Lamivudine 拉米夫定
(loanword) martini
a tiny bit
T-step (basic dance position, with the feet forming a T shape)
tench (Tinca tinca)
chitin
T-bone steak
(loanword) satin (textile)
hammer pick
butyraldehyde / butanal
Manchurian foot soldier
(medicine) dolantin (loanword) / pethidine
Blu-tack (brand)
(idiom) illiterate
chopped fried noodles
Samuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics
William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Peking University
stir-fried diced pork
chitin
romanization
suddenly
lilac

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