Kamus Bahasa Mandarin

ExCo; Executive Council of Hong Kong (abbr. for 行政會議|行政会议[Xing2 zheng4 Hui4 yi4])

top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]; top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field

Qichun, a county in Huanggang City 黃岡市|黄冈市[Huang2 gang1 Shi4], Hubei

Jacquard weave (machine weaving leaving protruding pattern)

(bird species of China) barred cuckoo-dove (Macropygia unchall)

a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)

housing bubble

lit. to summon demons to create havoc (idiom); fig. to stir up all kinds of trouble

right of attribution

lintel; crossbeam

(political party's) voter base; (musician's) fan base; (a business's) customer base; the funds necessary for a venture

(loanword) bingo

to bury a corpse; to be buried; (fig.) to die (at sea, in a fire etc)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, movie by Ang Lee 李安[Li3 An1]

day-by-day; daily; on a daily basis

ODA Nobunaga (1534-1582), Japanese shogun (warlord), played an important role in unifying Japan

board under tiles on roof; narrow

(Buddhist) monks and nuns

anti-Chinese

Tampere (Swedish Tammerfors), Finland's second city

waterfowl

very powerful army

minor details; trifles

(old) the family of the victim in a murder case; (Tw, HK) victim (of a crime, misfortune etc); (Tw) (coll.) person who bears the burden while others benefit