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1 to send on assignment

2 to deploy (troops)

1 to pay a formal visit

2 to call to pay respects

3 to meet one's senior or superior

1 routine

1 Zhaotong prefecture in Yunnan

1 to float in the wind

2 by ext., to lead a wandering life

1 Buddha's teaching

2 Buddhist monk's apparel, staff etc

3 (Daoism) magic weapon

4 talisman

5 fig. specially effective device

6 magic wand

1 restless

2 agitated

1 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

2 abbr. for 巴勒斯坦解放組織|巴勒斯坦解放组织[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3 Jie3 fang4 Zu3 zhi1]

1 ordinary day

2 everyday

3 ordinarily

4 usually

1 out of the ordinary

1 sufficient

2 full (payment)

1 History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Èr shí sì Shǐ], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ōu yáng Xiū] and Song Qi 宋祁[Sòng Qí] in 1060 during Northern Song 北宋[Běi Sòng], 225 scrolls

1 the Qin (221-207 BC) and Han (206 BC-220 AD) dynasties

1 cow horn

1 the shaft of a pen or writing brush

2 pen-holder

3 pen

1 Cangnan county in Wenzhou 溫州|温州[Wen1 zhou1], Zhejiang

1 teaching by example beats explaining in words (idiom)

2 action speaks louder than words

1 night journey

2 punitive expedition by night

1 to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)

1 lips sealed and not saying anything (idiom); fig. to omit mention (of a non-person or embarrassing topic)

2 to censor