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jiǔ jiǔ liù
  1. 1 9am-9pm, six days a week (work schedule)
九
jiǔ
  1. 1 nine
  2. 2 9
被
bèi
  1. 1 quilt
  2. 2 by
  3. 3 (indicates passive-voice clauses)
  4. 4 (literary) to cover
  5. 5 to meet with
  6. 6 (coll.) (since c. 2009) used before a verb that does not accurately represent what actually happened, to describe with black humor how sb or sth was dealt with by the authorities (as in 被自殺|被自杀[bèi zì shā])
派
pài
  1. 1 clique
  2. 2 school
  3. 3 group
  4. 4 faction
  5. 5 to dispatch
  6. 6 to send
  7. 7 to assign
  8. 8 to appoint
  9. 9 pi (Greek letter Ππ)
  10. 10 the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926
  11. 11 (loanword) pie
解放
jiě fàng
  1. 1 to liberate
  2. 2 to emancipate
  3. 3 liberation
  4. 4 refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949
  5. 5 classifier: 次 Cì
片
piàn
  1. 1 thin piece
  2. 2 flake
  3. 3 a slice
  4. 4 film
  5. 5 TV play
  6. 6 to slice
  7. 7 to carve thin
  8. 8 partial
  9. 9 incomplete
  10. 10 one-sided
  11. 11 classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water
  12. 12 classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc
  13. 13 used with numeral 一[yī]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
  14. 14 Kangxi radical 91
丁
dīng
  1. 1 variant: 十天干 Shí Tiān Gān
  2. 2 fourth in order
  3. 3 letter "D" or Roman "IV" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
  4. 4 ancient Chinese compass point: 195°
  5. 5 butyl
  6. 6 cubes (of food)
近代
jìn dài
  1. 1 the not-very-distant past
  2. 2 modern times, excluding recent decades
  3. 3 (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)
  4. 4 capitalist times (pre-1949)
重阳节 | 重陽節
Chóng yáng jié
  1. 1 Double Ninth or Yang Festival
  2. 2 9th day of 9th lunar month
方言
Fāng yán
  1. 1 the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄|扬雄[Yáng Xióng] in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters
犬
quǎn
  1. 1 dog
  2. 2 Kangxi radical 94
温家宝 | 溫家寶
Wēn Jiā bǎo
  1. 1 Wen Jiabao (1942-), Premier of PRC from 2003-2013
博格
Bó gé
  1. 1 Borg (name)
  2. 2 Bjorn Borg (1956-), Swedish tennis star
张国荣 | 張國榮
Zhāng Guó róng
  1. 1 Leslie Cheung (1956-2003), Hong Kong singer and actor
詹姆斯·高斯林
Zhān mǔ sī · Gāo sī lín
  1. 1 James Gosling (1955-), Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Java programming language
刘贵今 | 劉貴今
Liú Guì jīn
  1. 1 Liu Guijin (1945-), PRC diplomat, special representative to Africa from 2007, Chinese specialist on Sudan and the Darfur issue
希���里 | 希拉里
Xī lā lǐ
  1. 1 Hillary (name)
  2. 2 Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
复古 | 復古
fù gǔ
  1. 1 to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration)
  2. 2 to turn back the clock
  3. 3 neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文
  4. 4 retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
杜威
Dù Wēi
  1. 1 Du Wei (1982-), Shanghai soccer star
  2. 2 Dewey (name)
赫鲁晓夫 | 赫魯曉夫
Hè lǔ xiǎo fu
  1. 1 Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964