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(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)

Shanghai Second Medical University

top notch / highest quality

to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)

ranked number one in the world / the world's first

Bratislava, capital of Slovakia

world's first

Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898

Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician

Burgundy (Bourgogne), kingdom during medieval period, now region of France

Beijing International Studies University (BISU)

family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family