Word origins

• heA person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.
• eThe fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
• sheThe female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
• deThe name of the Cyrillic script letter Д / д.
• oThe fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
• guideSomeone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
• fanA hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
• hongA foreign trading company in China.
• mileThe international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
• panA wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
• lolook, see, behold (in an imperative sense).
• liThe Chinese mile, a traditional unit of distance equal to 1500 chis or 150 zhangs, now standardized as a half-kilometer (500 meters).
• LANAn in-person tournament that uses LAN.
• tuTuberculin Units, the measure of an antigen used to aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection.
• chiThe twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.
• juanA scroll of a traditional Chinese book, often (but not necessarily) corresponding to a single chapter or fascicle.
• AliA male given name from Arabic.
• ciOne of the Classical Chinese poetry forms
• xiThe 14th letter of Classical and Modern Greek. The 15th in Ancient and Old Greek.
• GUIA surname from Mandarin.
• chanAn IRC channel.
• fujiA plain spun silk fabric.
• yenThe unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
• linTo desist, to stop, to cease.
• changA traditional harp of central and southwest Asia
• lvA surname.
• kiA term indicating intrinsic energy; usually associated with martial art – karate, judo, aikido, etc. – practitioners who consider ki important to performing at the highest level.
• KEA surname.
• taiA fish, the Japanese bream.
• zhangA traditional Chinese unit of length, 10 Chinese feet or ¹/₁₅₀ Chinese mile.
• hanSorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
• guA county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
• PUA county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
• fengThe Latin-script letter ʩ, used to transcribe a voiceless velopharyngeal fricative in the context of disordered speech.
• apaA title used for male clergy or saints in the Coptic Church.
• boseTo strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
• abaA coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
• taoThe art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
• YiAn ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous areas of southwest China.
• luluA remarkable person, object, or idea.
• gongA percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
• chengA Chinese surname from Mandarin.
• xuA former unit of currency in Vietnam, equivalent to a hundredth of a dong.
• chuThe sound of a kiss.
• qiAn ancient Chinese duchy, and later kingdom, under the Zhou dynasty
• ShenzhenA major subprovincial city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
• yinA principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world.
• huaA surname.
• Meimultiengine instructor (a CFI qualified to give training in multiengine aircraft)
• quAn administrative subdivision of China roughly equivalent to districts, distinguished from the more rural "counties" (xian).
• daliA timber tree (genus Myristica) of Guiana, whose wood is used for staves etc.
• ZhejiangA coastal province in eastern China, running from Hangzhou Bay to Fujian. Capital: Hangzhou.
• congA type of carved jade tube made in China starting in the Neolithic.
• zhouSynonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
• SHUA god personifying the air and atmosphere.
• zhuAn ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.
• huiA Māori social gathering or assembly.
• fangA long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.
• NingA surname.
• tungA tung tree.
• pengA legendary enormous bird.
• chouChoux pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake with a sweet filling.
• zhengSynonym of guzheng.
• xiaoA type of Chinese flute.
• jingAn ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.
• NanjingA major subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Jiangsu, China, on the lower Yangtze; a former capital of China.
• TianjinA direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
• JiangsuA province of China, northeast of the mouth of the Yangtze River. Capital: Nanjing.
• pangA paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
• XiamenA prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.
• BalaA small town and community with a town council in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH9235).
• malaA single lobe of an insect's maxilla.
• MohanAn epithet of Krishna.
• ShandongA coastal province in eastern China. Capital: Jinan.
• qingA sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument.
• QingdaoA major prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in eastern Shandong, in eastern China, on the Yellow Sea.
• KuoA surname.
• qinAny of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.
• qigongA Chinese system of breathing control, physical exercise and meditation.
• JiaA surname.
• HsiA surname.
• ChongqingA direct-administered municipality and city in western China.
• DalianOf or relating to Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish surrealist painter.
• TienA surname from Mandarin.
• XieA surname from Chinese.
• xingA surname.
• ZhongA surname.
• YangtzeThe chief river of central China and the third longest river in the world, flowing a total of 6300 km.
• ChengduA subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Sichuan, in southwestern China.
• liaoIndicates action completion, or more generally, perfective aspect.
• WuhanA subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Hubei, China.
• zhenA surname.
• shangA Chinese unit of land area equivalent to 15 mu or about one hectare.
• JieAn ancient tribe of northern China, who were regarded as one of the Five Barbarians by the Han people.
• HsiehA surname from Mandarin.
• XiangA Chinese language spoken mainly in Hunan province, China
• ShenyangA subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Liaoning, in northeastern China.
• SuzhouA prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Yangtze River.
• sianBored, weary or fed up; tired (of something).
• TengA surname from Hokkien.