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1 Hong Kong Monetary Authority

1 deep-fried fish cake popular in Taiwan (loanword from Japanese "tempura")

1 in the evening

2 when night falls

3 towards evening

4 at night fall

5 at dusk

1 characters cut in relief

1 deadly blow

2 vicious attack

3 treacherous assault

1 Li Zhi (1527-1602), late Ming philosopher, historian and writer

1 (bird species of China) blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus)

1 cyclone

1 Yubei district of central Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan

1 (coll.) to keep sb in suspense

2 to tantalize

3 to keep on tenterhooks

1 to hone (a knife)

1 sincere

1 nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet

2 à la guerre comme à la guerre

1 chessboard

1 digestive tract of a shrimp

2 sand vein

1 to fascinate

2 to strongly attract

3 to obsess

4 to infatuate

5 to captivate

6 to enchant

1 to stir-fry ingredients that have been cooked or partially cooked

1 lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73)

2 fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape

3 you can't run from the long arm of the law

1 DHL

1 conductor of electricity