chief offender; main culprit
leading light; founding father; principal proponent; also written 元勳|元勋
ingot; gold ingot; silver ingot; mock ingot (burnt as offering in worship); name for ancient currency; (rare) genius
first year of an emperor's reign
arch-criminal; master criminal
strength; vigor; vitality; (TCM) vital energy
primordial spirit; fundamental essence of life
element; element of a set; chemical element
senior figure; elder; doyen
one that has achieved the way; emperor
upper house; senate; senior statesmen's assembly
vowel harmony (in phonetics of Altaic languages)
periodic table of the elements (chemistry)
single variable (math.); univariate
duality; dual; bipolar; binary
provincial imperial examination graduate who ranked 1st in metropolitan examination (in Ming and Qing dynasties)
pixel (remote sensing imagery)
unit (forming an entity); element; (in a residential building) entrance or staircase
poly-; multi-; multielement; multivariant; multivariate (math.)
character (computing) (Tw)
to win the top award; to come first in the examination rankings
to change an emperor's or ruler's reign title (old)
dimension (loanword, from Japanese)
elimination (math); to eliminate one variable from equations
time immemorial; origin of the universe; the world
top scorer in the palace examination
(highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see
榜眼 and
探花; top scorer in college entrance examination
高考;
(fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light
first-placed candidate in the provincial imperial examinations (old)
flat silver (former coinage); also written 銀圓|银圆; silver dollar
brightest and best; chief; first among peers
monism, belief that the universe is made of a single substance
household with savings or annual income of 10,000 yuan or more (considered a large amount in the 1970s, when the term became established)
indeterminate element (math.), often denoted by x
dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil)
diversification; diversified; to diversify; to pluralize; (to become) pluralistic; pluralism
pluralism, philosophical doctrine that the universe consists of different substances
before the common era (BC)
light element (such as hydrogen)
heavy element (such as uranium)
currency issued by Nationalist Government in 1948
ternary operator (computing)
retroflex vowel (e.g. the final r of putonghua)
diphthong (such as putonghua ɑi, uei etc)
to ruin one's constitution
founding figure (of a country or dynasty); founding father; (fig.) also used of company or school etc
trace element (chemistry)
rare earth element (chemistry)
trace element (nutrition)
actinoids
(rare earth series), namely: actinium Ac89
锕, thorium Th90
钍, protoactinium Pa91
镤, uranium U92
铀, neptunium Ne93
镎, plutonium Pu94
钚, americium Am95
镅, curium Cm96
锔, berkelium Bk97 錇|锫[p
lanthanoid
(rare earth series), namely: lanthanum La57
镧, cerium Ce58
铈, praseodymium Pr59
镨, neodymium Nd60 釹|钕[nu:3], promethium Pm61
钷, samarium Sm62
钐, europium Eu63
铕, gadolinium Gd64
钆, terbium T
additional element; (computing) add-on; plug-in
polyunsaturated fatty acid