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1 damson (fruit)

1 child (computing)

1 paper folding

2 origami

1 lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom)

2 fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off

3 to go for wool and come back shorn

1 application form

1 horsepower

1 Maya peoples

1 boiling water

1 lit. helping tyrant Zhou 商紂王|商纣王[Shāng Zhòu wáng] in his oppression (idiom)

2 fig. to take the side of the evildoer

3 giving succor to the enemy

1 doorstop

1 the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 张衡 in 132

2 abbr. for 候風地動儀|候风地动仪

1 greenhouse gas

1 sure

1 as expected

1 to reprint

1 Alzheimer's disease

1 to come together

2 to assemble

1 War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石

1 depth (of waterway)

2 sounding