first; number one; primary; foremost
first case; first instance; first time (sth is done)
first tone in Mandarin; high level tone
(the) first time; first; number one
first round (of match, or election)
third tone in Mandarin; falling-rising tone
third period; tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship; the other woman; the other man; third person; third party (in dispute); disinterested party; number three in a list
second tone in Mandarin; rising tone
(the) next day; (the) second day; the morrow
(lit.) second spring; (fig.) falling in love for the second time; a new lease of life; rebirth
the second time; second; number two; second time
second round (of match, or election)
category 5; CAT 5 (cable)
sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc)
fourth channel; (in Taiwan) cable TV, FTV
fourth tone in Mandarin; falling tone
fourth period; quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
dinar (currency) (loanword)
primary sector of industry
first quarter (of financial year)
first time; in the first moments (of sth happening); immediately (after an event); first thing
the first pot of gold; the initial profits from an economic endeavour
first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive)
tertiary sector of industry
third quarter (of financial year)
"third state", borderline state between health and disease
the second person; (fig.) someone else; third party
second quarter (of financial year)
fifth column (subversive group)
fourth quarter (of financial year)
(math.) first fundamental form
fifth modernization, i.e. democracy, cf Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations 鄧小平|邓小平, 四個現代化|四个现代化
top notch; highest quality
to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)
to pass an imperial examination
grade (i.e. quality); rank
housing; high class residence
mansion house; official residence
to pass the civil service examination (in imperial China)
order; sequence; one after another
residence of a noble; top candidate in the imperial examinations
level; rank; grade; rating
extensive residence; your house
ranked number one in the world; the world's first
first under heaven; number one in the country
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