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1 hooped barrel

2 to handmake a wooden barrel

1 traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone

1 Punjab province of Pakistan

1 (bird species of China) common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

1 welt

2 whip scar

3 lash mark

1 young disciple (of the same master)

2 younger or junior male schoolmate

1 of what use is it

2 (idiom)

1 crop failure

2 poor harvest

1 Northern lights

2 aurora borealis

1 outdoors

2 al fresco

3 in the open

1 (coll.) wife's younger brother

1 Miscellaneous School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocate was Lü Buwei 呂不韋|吕不韦[Lu:3 Bu4 wei2]

1 Children's Palace, institution where children can take part in various extracurricular activities

1 detour

2 long way around

1 to be impervious to reason (idiom)

2 unreasonable

1 pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West

1 to take a customer's order

2 (of a taxi driver) to accept a booking

3 (of a delivery rider) to accept a delivery job

1 West lake district (place name)

2 Xihu district of Hangzhou city 杭州市[Hang2 zhou1 shi4], Zhejiang

3 Xihu district of Nanchang city 南昌市, Jiangxi

1 (dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. [zùn])

2 used in place names, notably 深圳[Shēn zhèn]

1 Segovia, Spain