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曼受雷敦
Mandarin: man4 shou4 lei2 dun1
Mentholatum
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曼城
Mandarin: man4 cheng2
Manchester City (football club in England)
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曼德拉
Mandarin: man4 de2 la1
(Nelson) Mandela
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曼徹斯特
Mandarin: man4 che4 si1 te4
Manchester
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曼秀雷敦
Mandarin: man4 xiu4 lei2 dun1
Mentholatum, a personal care products company
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曼聯
Mandarin: man4 lian2
Manchester United — an English football club | Short for '曼徹斯特聯'
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曼谷
Mandarin: man4 gu3
Bangkok (capital of Thailand)
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曼谷航空公司
Bangkok Airways
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望住
Mandarin: wang4 zhu4
to look or stare at | to guard or take care of
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望到頸都長
Mandarin: wang4 dao4 jing3 du1 chang2
Simplified: 望到颈都长
to look forward to something eagerly; to wait for such a long time that your neck gets sore
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望城
Mandarin: wang4 cheng2
Wangcheng (place in Hunan)
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望天打卦
Mandarin: wang4 tian1 da3 gua4
to resign to fate
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望奎
Mandarin: wang4 kui2
Wangkui (place in Heilongjiang)
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望子成龍
Mandarin: wang4 zi3 cheng2 long2
Hope that a son or child would grow up and become a great "dragon", i.e. successful in life.
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望安鄉
Mandarin: wang4 an1 xiang1
Wangan (village in Taiwan)
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望就係咁望
Mandarin: wang4 jiu4 xi4 gan1 wang4
Simplified: 望就系咁望
Cantonese
one can only hope that is the case; one can only hope that one's wish will be fulfilled [colloquial]
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望山跑死馬
Mandarin: wang4 shan1 pao3 si3 ma3
Simplified: 望山跑死马
a place that appears to be nearby but is in fact very far away
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望族
Mandarin: wang4 zu2
distinguished or prominent family; influential clan
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望梅止渴
Mandarin: wang4 mei2 zhi3 ke3
looking at something you think you already have but actually don't have
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望江
Mandarin: wang4 jiang1
Wangjiang (place in Anhui)
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望江南
Mandarin: wang4 jiang1 nan2
[botany] coffee senna
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望洋興歎
Mandarin: wang4 yang2 xing1 tan4
Simplified: 望洋兴叹
to feel small in front of a big ocean, a metaphor to describe the feeling of inadequacy when faced with a mountainous task or an over ambitious goal
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望潮
octopus
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望穿秋水
Mandarin: wang4 chuan1 qiu1 shui3
to wait forever, eagerly hoping to see the relatives and family who are far away
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望角
Mandarin: wang4 jiao3
the old name for Mongkok in Hong Kong, which is now called 旺角 (wong6 gok3) in Cantonese
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望謨
Mandarin: wang4 mo2
Wangmo (place in Guizhou)
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望遠鏡
Mandarin: wang4 yuan3 jing4
telescope
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望都
Mandarin: wang4 du1
Wangdu (place in Hebei)
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朢
Mandarin: wang4
15th day of month (lunar calendar) | old variant of 望wàng [望], to look | # adapted from cc-cedict
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朦
Mandarin: meng2
deceive | indistinct | hazy | dim (moonlight) | blurred | unclear | # adapted from cc-cedict
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