Kamus Bahasa Mandarin

lit. a path covered in brambles; a course of action beset by difficulties (idiom)

Kim Dae-jung (1926-2009), South Korea politician, president 1998-2003, Nobel peace prize laureate 2000

Ethiopia

flag (of a country); CL:面[mian4]

starting bid; starting price (at an auction)

Lixia or Start of Summer, 7th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 5th-20th May

lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom); fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere; to be in a predicament

(psychology) empathy; to empathize with

gun cover

fragmentary; trifling

ice breaker (ship)

to look completely new (idiom); brand new; changed beyond recognition

to save food; to go on a diet

the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

direct tax

breakfast; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]

Longjing, a district of Taichung 臺中市|台中市[Tai2 zhong1 Shi4], Taiwan

fish head; fig. upright and unwilling to compromise

evil intentions

to wipe out the villains (e.g. insurgents, or people of another race)

witch; sorceress; female shaman

to run; to run away; to escape; to run around (on errands etc)

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