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hot-headed; impulsive; reckless
HSK 7-9
coarse / crude (in one's manner) / boorish
HSK 7-9
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surname Lu / Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东
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(bound form) crass / stupid / rude / (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)
Innsbruck, city in Austria
Subaru
blues (music) (loanword)
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific
alternative name for Shandong 山東|山东
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers
Perugia (city in Italy)
Prussia (historical German state)
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
Shandong cuisine
Peru
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
Andrew (name)
Georgia (country)
Yale
Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝, located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东, birthplace of Confucius
Brooklyn, borough of New York City
Ludian county in Zhaotong 昭通, Yunnan
Lushan county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山, Henan
Bruges (Dutch Brugge), medieval town in Belgium
(name) Brook / Peter Brook (1925-2022), British theater director
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi
Kailu county in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
Anglo-
Kota Bharu, city in Malaysia on border with Thailand, capital of Kelantan sultanate
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964
dull-witted; foolish
Tergüel or Teruel, Spain
stupid / slow on the uptake
Örebro (city in Sweden)
old Chinese name for Hormuz / now called 霍爾木茲|霍尔木兹
Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
(slang) loser (loanword) (Tw)
Rubin (name) / Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton
Lu Su or Lu Zijing 魯子敬|鲁子敬 (172-217), statesman, diplomat and strategist of Eastern Wu 東吳|东吴
person from Shandong / often refers to Confucius / stupid person
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
History of Kingdom Lu / refers to the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific (Tw)
robust (loanword) / solid
Rouen (France)
robustness
the lord of Lu (who declined to employ Confucius)
Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute
Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet
Aruba, island in the Caribbean, a self-governing part of the Netherlands
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
Leuven (a town in Belgium famous for its university)
Yale University
the Turpan Depression in Xinjiang
(Mount) Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains, southwest Russia
Cthulhu, fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft
Santa Cruz
Farouk of Egypt (1920-1965), king of Egypt 1936-1952
Turpan, prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Rhythm and Blues R&B
Brucella (infectious disease)
Georgian (person)
guru (loanword)
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also called 檀香山
Zulu
Taroko National Park in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, Taiwan / Taroko ethnic group Taiwan
Pinglu district of Shuozhou city 朔州市, Shanxi
Great Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra (through the southeast Himalayas, from Tibet to Assam and Bangladesh)
Cyrus the Great (ca. 600-530 BC), the founder of the Persian Empire and the conqueror of Babylon
Urumqi county (Uighur: Ürümchi Nahiyisi) in Urumqi 烏魯木齊|乌鲁木齐, Xinjiang
Brooklyn Bridge
Cyrus (name)
Bengkulu (Indonesian town on the south coast of Sumatra)
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Bengkulu (Indonesian town on the south coast of Sumatra)
Rukai, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism
St Andrew
Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times
Bosphorus
Taroko, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Brunei Darussalam
Proudhonism, 19th century socialist theory
Uluru, massive sandstone outcrop in central Australia
Rotorua, city in New Zealand

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