èr
two
2
(Beijing dialect) stupid
fǎng
2 boats lashed together
large boat
wèi
position
location
place
seat
classifier for people (honorific)
classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
èr jí
grade 2
second class
category B
qīng tóng qì
bronze implement
refers to ancient bronze artifacts, from c. 2,000 BC
qíng
cyanogen (CN)2
ethane dinitrile
shí gāo
gypsum CaSO4·2(H2O)
plaster
plaster cast (for a broken bone)
èr hú
erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle)
alto fiddle
CL:把[ba3]
Qián mén
Qianmen subway station on Beijing Subway Line 2
yīng cùn
inch (unit of length equal to 2.54 cm.)
zhū
twenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
gǔn
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
chuàng shì
the creation (in mythology and Genesis 1-2)
the first foundational steps
Ā lā bó shù zì
Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
yǐ èr chún
glycol
ethylene glycol C2H4(OH)2 (antifreeze)
bǐng èr chún
propylene glycol
propane-1,2-diol C3H6(OH)2
dāo
deuterium 2H
heavy hydrogen, isotope of hydrogen having 1 neutron in its nucleus, so atomic weight 2
hé gǔ
joint stock
ply (e.g. 2-ply yarn)
chuān
tritium 3H
radioactive isotope of hydrogen having 2 neutrons in its nucleus, so atomic weight 3
qīng yǎng huà gài
calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2
slaked lime
chǒu niú
Year 2, year of the Bull or Ox (e.g. 2009)
shí qīng
azurite
copper azurite 2CuCO3-Cu(OH)2
azure blue
shēng shí gāo
gypsum CaSO4·2(H2O)
plaster
xiāo shí huī
calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2
slaked lime
táng lóu
tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China)
tuǒ
length of 2 outstretched arms
jiē chéng
the factorial of a number, e.g. 5! = 5.4.3.2.1 = 120
pàn bié shì
discriminant (e.g. b^2-4ac in the formula for the root of a quadratic equation)
zhào zì jié
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
shā dīng àn chún
salbutamol (a beta 2 agonist used in treating asthma)
also known as albuterol, proventil and ventolin
niú tóu bù duì mǎ zuǐ
see 驢唇不對馬嘴|驴唇不对马嘴[lu:2 chun2 bu4 dui4 ma3 zui3]
rú
variant of 茹[ru2]
see 蕠藘[ru2 lu:2]
děng chā jí shù
arithmetic series (such as 2+4+6+8+...)
Qīng shǐ liè zhuàn
Biographic history of Qing dynasty by a succession of authors, published 1928 and revised 1987, with biographies of 2,900 notable Qing commoner citizens, 80 scrolls
suàn shù jí shù
arithmetic series (such as 2+4+6+8+...)
chóng tàn suān gài
calcium bicarbonate Ca(HCO3)2
děng bǐ jí shù
geometric series (such as 1+2+4+8+...)
jiǎn jié shì zhì huì de líng hún
Brevity is the soul of wit (from Polonius' 波洛涅斯 speech in Hamlet II:2 哈姆雷特).
jí zì jié
gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes)
Guān dōng dì zhèn
Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area
bā lí lǜ
Paris green
copper(II) acetoarsenite Cu(C2H3Ó)2·3Cu(AsÓ)2
chāo zhòng qīng
tritium
3H
radioactive isotope of hydrogen having 2 neutrons in its nucleus, so atomic weight 3
Dà pǔ dòng èr
Taepodong 2, North Korean rocket
lín běn kūn
1,2-benzoquinone (chemistry)
ortho-benzoquinone
nǐ lǔ sù
pseudohalogen, e.g. cyanogen (CN)2
Sū zhōu mǎ zi
Suzhou numerals, i.e. the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩,十 nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine
also called 草碼|草码[cao3 ma3]
Dà pǔ dòng èr hào
Taepodong 2, North Korean rocket
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