to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
(literary) tributary / branch of a river / clique / school / group / faction / (bound form) style / manner / to send (a person or resource) / to dispatch / to allocate (a resource or task) / to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by 一[yi]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ) / the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie
ticket / ballot / banknote / CL:張|张[zhang1] / person held for ransom / amateur performance of Chinese opera / classifier for groups, batches, business transactions
four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3]
marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)
Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical
Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical / see 龍龕手鑑|龙龛手鉴[Long2 kan1 Shou3 jian4]
Domestic Security Protection Bureau, the department of the Ministry of Public Security responsible for political security, monitoring dissidents, religious groups and activities deemed a threat to state stability (abbr. for 國內安全保衛局|国内安全保卫局[Guo2 nei4 An1 quan2 Bao3 wei4 ju2]) / (Tw) National Pension Insurance, a social security scheme in Taiwan (abbr. for 國民年金保險|国民年金保险[Guo2 min2 Nian2 jin1 Bao3 xian3]) / National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit (abbr. for 全國重點文物保護單位|全国重点文物保护单位[Quan2 guo2 Zhong4 dian3 Wen2 wu4 Bao3 hu4 Dan1 wei4]) / abbr. for 國內安全保衛局|国内安全保卫局[Guo2 nei4 An1 quan2 Bao3 wei4 ju2] / abbr. for 國民年金保險|国民年金保险[Guo2 min2 Nian2 jin1 Bao3 xian3] / abbr. for 全國重點文物保護單位|全国重点文物保护单位[Quan2 guo2 Zhong4 dian3 Wen2 wu4 Bao3 hu4 Dan1 wei4]
(idiom) To arrive or follow one after another without interruption. The expression commonly describes a continuous stream of people, vehicles, or groups.
(idiom) Originally, it referred to extremely rigorous military defenses. It is also used for sharply defined boundaries between people, groups, or fields.
(idiom) The very different circumstances of two groups of rats make Li Si sigh and reflect on what makes people worthy or unworthy: everything depends on their environment and situation.
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