马噶尔尼使团

the Macartney mission to Qing China in 1793

surname Ma / abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]

horse / CL:匹[pi3] / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess

phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds) / Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha / (dialect) final particle similar to 了[le5] (esp. in Yunnan)

Gar county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sgar rdzong

variant of 爾|尔[er3]

thus / so / like that / you / thou

Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle

Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)

to make / to cause / to enable / to use / to employ / to send / to instruct sb to do sth / envoy / messenger

diplomatic mission

round / lump / ball / to roll into a ball / to gather / regiment / group / society / classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)

dumpling