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1 (honorific) to greet

2 to fawn

1 dioxin, carcinogenic heterocyclic hydrocarbon (esp. Taiwan usage)

1 fisherwoman

1 (literary) palanquin

2 sedan chair

3 to ride in a palanquin

1 general rule

2 simple principle

1 Aulacophora femoralis

1 old rice

2 rice kept for many years

1 (dialect) wall brick

1 Nanpiao district of Huludao city 葫蘆島市|葫芦岛市, Liaoning

1 to pay in advance

2 prepaid

1 Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961

1 unexpected calamity

2 sudden disaster

1 Rift Valley fever virus

1 to face into the wind

2 against the wind

3 fig. against the law

1 precarious as morning dew (idiom); unlikely to last out the day

1 quartermaster

1 date of use (on foodstuffs)

2 best before date

1 studio

2 workshop

1 to vote by ballot

1 "Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning