格林尼治本初子午线

the Greenwich meridian

square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively

Green or Greene (name)

woods / forest / CL:片[pian4] / circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / a collection (of similar things)

Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)

Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time

to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research

to take radical measures / to get to the root (of a problem etc)

to tackle a problem at its root; to effect a permanent solution (contrasted with 治標|治标[zhi4 biao1])

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic

son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

(noun suffix)

7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)

the first meridian / the prime meridian

meridian

variant of 線|线[xian4]

thread / string / wire / line / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1] / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)