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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
fifth
dinar (currency) (loanword)
First Lady (wife of US president)
fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
second / number two / next / secondary
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚
thirtieth
third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
Dijon (France)
first / most important; primary; foremost
the second time / second / number two
next day / the morrow
the first time / first / number one
fourth quarter
third quarter (of financial year)
(lit.) second spring / (fig.) falling in love for the second time / a new lease of life / rebirth
sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc)
first-class
second place
third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone
third place
World War One
first round (of match, or election)
first level
First World
second quarter (of financial year)
in the first moments (of sth happening) / immediately (after an event) / first thing
at first glance / at first sight
step one / first step
World War II
first-person shooter (video game genre)
first quarter (of financial year)
the first pot of gold / the initial profits from an economic endeavour
tertiary sector of industry
third person (grammar)
fifth column (subversive group)
third party
fourth tone in Mandarin / falling tone
the person in charge / the head of the leadership group
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
second job
First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866
the second person / (fig.) someone else / third party
second tone in Mandarin / rising tone
category 5 / CAT 5 (cable)
(math.) first fundamental form
Third World
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
first case / first instance / first time (sth is done)
(zoology) nictitating membrane
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
territory belonging to a third party (as a neutral location for peace negotiations or as a transit point for indirect travel or trade etc)
Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)
Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986) / abbr. to 二簡|二简
secondary industry
sixth sense / intuition
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
Type 1 diabetes
(fig.) opening shot
primary sector of industry
first tone in Mandarin / high, level tone
first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive)
suboptimal health status
Type 2 diabetes
second round (of match, or election)
Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland
fourth quarter (of financial year)
the fourth estate; the press
fourth channel / (in Taiwan) cable TV, FTV
(Tw) Des Moines, capital of Iowa


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