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 sān shì the Third (of numbered kings)
 tái wān hǎi xiá fēi dàn wēi jī Third
 sān cì third / three times / (math.) degree three, cubic (equation)
 qí sān thirdly / the third
 sān dù third (musical interval)
 dì sān zhèng guī huà third
 sān yīn third (musical interval, e.g. do-mi)
 sān yīn dù third (musical interval)
 dì sān third / number three
 Sān yuè March / third month (of the lunar year)
 sān jí grade 3 / third class / category C
 dì sān cì third / third time
 zhōng xún middle third of a month
 dì sān fāng third party
 chū sān third year in junior middle school
 sān fēn zhī yī one third
 xià xún last third of the month
 dì sān zhě 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
 míng liè to rank (number 1, or third last etc) / to be among (those who are in a particular group)
 dēng pào light bulb / see also 電燈泡|电灯泡[dian4 deng1 pao4] / third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 sān jí piàn third category movie (containing sexual or violent content)
 dì sān dài third generation
 Yǒng lè Yongle Emperor, reign name of third Ming emperor Zhu Di 朱棣[Zhu1 Di4] (1360-1424), reigned 1403-1424, temple name 明成祖[Ming2 Cheng2 zu3]
 shàng xún first third of a month
 dì sān jì dù third quarter (of financial year)
 xià shì lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
 Sān Zhōng Quán huì third plenum of a national congress of the Chinese Communist Party
 dì sān wèi third place
 sān gēng third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1]
 jì jūn third in a race / bronze medalist
 Hǎi dì Haiti, the western third of Caribbean island Hispaniola
 tàn huā candidate who came third in the Han-lin examination / see 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]
 dì sān shì jiè Third World
 diàn dēng pào light bulb / (slang) unwanted third guest
 sān huáng the three legendary sovereigns of the third millennium BC: Suiren 燧人[Sui4 ren2], Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1] and Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2], or 天皇|天皇[Tian1 huang2], 地皇|地皇[Di4 huang2] and 人皇|人皇[Ren2 huang2]
 bǐng yín third year C3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1986 or 2046
 kǎo dǎ to beat a prisoner (to obtain confessions) / to give sb the third degree / to torture
 dì sān rén chēng third person (grammar)
 Hòu Hàn shū History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔[Fan4 Ye4] in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4], 120 scrolls
 Wáng Wǔ Wang Wu, name for an unspecified person, third of a series of three: 張三|张三[Zhang1 San1], 李四[Li3 Si4], 王五 / Tom, Dick and Harry
 Luó zī Łódź, third largest city of Poland
 Yuán shǐ History of the Yuan Dynasty, twenty third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Song Lian 宋濂[Song4 Lian2] in 1370 during the Ming Dynasty, 210 scrolls
 Hè Zǐ zhēn He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife
 shǎng shēng falling and rising tone / third tone in modern Mandarin
 yù bàng xiāng zhēng lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both) (idiom) / fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party
 Zhāng sān Lǐ sì Zhang the Third and Li the Fourth (idiom) / Tom, Dick and Harry
 wài xīn (of a married person) interest in a third person / (old) (of a minister etc) disloyal disposition / (math.) circumcenter (of a polygon)
 jué role (theater) / to compete / ancient three legged wine vessel / third note of pentatonic scale
 yī (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / that (preceding a noun)
 Jīn Zhèng ēn Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日[Jin1 Zheng4 ri4], supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
 bó father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
 bǐng third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl
 Bā lí Gōng shè Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic
 jiǎ tú miè Guó lit. a short-cut to crush Guo (idiom) / fig. to connive with sb to damage a third party, then turn on the partner
 mín shēng zhǔ yì principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 / Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 / (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
 yù bàng xiāng zhēng yú wēng dé lì lit. sandpiper and clam war together and the fisherman catches both (idiom) / fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party
 bó zhòng shū jì eldest / second / third and youngest of brothers / order of seniority among brothers
 Lì wèi jì Book of Leviticus / Third Book of Moses
 Yā shā lóng Absalom, third son of David, king of Israel (Old Testament)
 Yuē hàn sān shū Third epistle of St John
 dì sān jì third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
 sān rén kǒu qì third person (grammar)
 sān ā yí auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
 xià xián third quarter or waning moon
 xià xián yuè third quarter or waning moon
 bǐng děng third rank / third category / third grade / grade C
 Qián líng Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市|咸阳市 / in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 / and empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天
 Yà sā Asa (?-870 BC), third king of Judah and fifth king of the House of David (Judaism)
 zè shēng oblique tone / nonlevel tone / uneven tone (the third tone of Classical Chinese)
 bǎo chéng document guaranteeing the words or actions of a third party (old)
 Gòng chǎn Guó jì Communist International or Comintern (1919-1943), also known as the Third International 第三國際|第三国际[Di4 san1 Guo2 ji4]
 Táng Gāo zōng Emperor Gaozong of Tang, reign name of third Tang emperor Li Zhi 李治[Li3 Zhi4] (628-683), reigned 649-683
 xǐ dàn red-painted eggs, traditional celebratory gift on third day after birth of new baby
 dà sān dù major third (musical interval)
 dà xiǎo sān dù major and minor third (musical interval)
 Kǒng cóng zǐ the K'ung family Masters' anthology, collection of dialogues between Confucius and his disciples, possibly forged in third century by Wang Su 王肅|王肃[Wang2 Su4]
 jì chūn final month of spring (i.e. third month of lunar calendar)
 xiǎo sān dù minor third (musical interval)
 xiǎo cháo neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter)
 jǐ dào to squeeze (an opponent into third place)
 Míng Chéng zǔ Ming Chengzu, temple name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
 mò fú the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[san1 fu2]), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August
 Zhū Dì Zhu Di, personal name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
 Lǐ Zhì Li Zhi, personal name of third Tang emperor Gaozong 唐高宗[Tang2 Gao1 zong1], (628-683), reigned 649-683
 tāng bǐng yán dinner party given on the third day after the birth of a baby (traditional)
 méi xīn lún ājñā / or ajna, the brow or third eye chakra 查克拉, residing in the forehead / also written 眉間輪|眉间轮[mei2 jian1 lun2]
 méi jiān lún ājñā / or ajna, the brow or third eye chakra 查克拉, residing in the forehead
 dì sān jí third level
 dì sān shēng third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone
 Yuē hàn cān shū Third epistle of St John / also written 約翰三書|约翰三书
 chì kǒu rì third day of the lunar year (inauspicious for visits because arguments happen easily on that day)
·  ASHIKAGA Yoshimitsu (1358-1408), third Ashikaga shōgun, reigned 1368-1394
 Ruǎn Chóng wǔ Ruan Chongwu (1933-), third governor of Hainan
 jiàng jié cháng descending colon (anatomy) / third section of large intestine
 hàn lián third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet
 zú lì yì mǎn ASHIKAGA Yoshimitsu (1358-1408), third Ashikaga shogun, reigned 1368-1394
 Dì sān Dì guó Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)
 dì sān shì jiè kē xué yuàn Third World Academy of Sciences
  third order hydrographic survey / order 3 survey
  Centre of Economic and Social Studies of the Third World
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