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  *第* | 第* | *第
(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just
HSK 1
front line / forefront
HSK 7-9
first-hand
HSK 7-9
first / most important; primary; foremost
to pass an imperial examination
second / number two / next / secondary
residence / mansion
level / rank / grade / rating
Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
to fail an exam
the second time / second / number two
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚
fifth
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list
dinar (currency) (loanword)
Indianapolis, Indiana
Andes mountain chain of South America
top notch; highest quality
first under heaven / number one in the country
sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc)
thirtieth
third person (grammar)
housing / high-class residence
Normandy, France
first-class
family status
Indiana, US state
first level
residence of a noble / top candidate in the imperial examinations
World War One
(American) Indian / native American / indigenous peoples of the Americas
(lit.) second spring / (fig.) falling in love for the second time / a new lease of life / rebirth
(fig.) opening shot
Third World
to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)
order / sequence / one after another
First Lady (wife of US president)
the Andes mountain chain
First World
second tone in Mandarin / rising tone
the Andes mountain range
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone
secondary industry
fourth tone in Mandarin / falling tone
tertiary sector of industry
fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)
to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)
First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866
second job
Burgundy (Bourgogne), a medieval kingdom and later a powerful duchy, now a region of France
the person in charge / the head of the leadership group
grade (i.e. quality) / rank
family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician
fifth column (subversive group)
the whole family is invited (idiom)
American Indians
first tone in Mandarin / high, level tone
Dijon (France)
mansion house / official residence
Indus (constellation)
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan) / Bopomofo / abbr. to 注音一式
Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)
variant of 覃第
step one / first step
third party
second round (of match, or election)
Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician
the first pot of gold / the initial profits from an economic endeavour
second place
in the first moments (of sth happening) / immediately (after an event) / first thing
at first glance / at first sight
fourth quarter (of financial year)
Indiana, US state
third quarter (of financial year)
the second person / (fig.) someone else / third party
the first time / first / number one
the fourth estate; the press
Beijing International Studies University (BISU)
first-person shooter (video game genre)
territory belonging to a third party (as a neutral location for peace negotiations or as a transit point for indirect travel or trade etc)
Type 2 diabetes
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive)
next day / the morrow
fourth quarter
extensive residence / your house
Giardiasis, a form of gastro-enteritis caused by infection of gut by Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite
world's first
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
former residence
(physics) Faraday cage
first case / first instance / first time (sth is done)
primary sector of industry
first round (of match, or election)
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986) / abbr. to 二簡|二简
Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland

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