元

surname Yuan / the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)

currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc

cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald

child / son

non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final

single variable (math.) / univariate

integration / integrated / unified

(old) first place in civil service examinations at three levels: provincial 解元[jie4 yuan2], metropolitan 會元|会元[hui4 yuan2] and palace 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]

monism, belief that the universe is made of a single substance

methyl alcohol CH3OH

(computing) wildcard character (Tw)

a new year begins (idiom)

Sanyuan district of Sanming city 三明市[San1 ming2 shi4], Fujian

ternary operator (computing)

propyl alcohol C3H7OH

household with savings or annual income of 10,000 yuan or more (considered a large amount in the 1970s, when the term became established)