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- the Second (of numbered kings)
- second generation (e.g. Chinese Americans)
- (coll.) (usu. of women in former times) to marry for a second time
- second marriage
- person who remarries
Trad. 二崙
- Erlun or Erhlun township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
- (slang) (adjective) (of one thing) one of the only two; (of two things) the only two
- Erlin or Erhlin Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan
- second (i.e. number two)
- second time
- twice
- (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
- Ershui or Erhshui Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan
Trad. 二湯
- second bouillon, a light broth obtained by reboiling ingredients that were previously used to make a full-strength first bouillon 頭湯|头汤[tou2 tang1]
- 2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up)
Trad. 二簡
- Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (abbr. for 第二次漢字簡化方案|第二次汉字简化方案[Di4 er4 Ci4 Han4 zi4 Jian3 hua4 Fang1 an4])
- 2nd year in junior middle school
- 2nd day of a lunar month
- 2nd day of lunar New Year
- difference (usu. follows 無|无[wu2] as in 毫無二致|毫无二致[hao2 wu2 er4 zhi4] or 別無二致|别无二致[bie2 wu2 er4 zhi4])
Trad. 二黃
- one of the two chief types of music in Chinese opera
- Peking opera
- also written 二簧[er4 huang2]
- see also 西皮[xi1 pi2]
Trad. 十二宮
- the twelve equatorial constellations or signs of the zodiac in Western astronomy and astrology, namely: Aries 白羊[Bai2 yang2], Taurus 金牛[Jin4 niu2], Gemini 雙子|双子[Shuang1 zi3], Cancer 巨蟹[Ju4 xie4], Leo 獅子|狮子[Shi1 zi3], Virgo 室女[Shi4 nu:3], Libra 天秤[Tian1 cheng4], Scorpio 天蠍|天蝎[Tian1 xie1], Sagittarius 人馬|人马[Ren2 ma3], Capricorn 摩羯[Mo2 jie2], Aquarius 寶瓶|宝瓶[Bao3 ping2], Pisces 雙魚|双鱼[Shuang1 yu2]
- the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
- (lit.) second spring
- (fig.) falling in love for the second time
- a new lease of life
- rebirth
- children of officials
- word created by analogy with 富二代[fu4 er4 dai4]
Trad. 二七區
- Erqi, a district of Zhengzhou City 鄭州市|郑州市[Zheng4 zhou1 Shi4], Henan
Trad. 二人臺
- genre of song-and-dance duet popular in Inner Mongolia
Trad. 二人轉
- genre of song-and-dance duet popular in northeast China
Trad. 二元論
- dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil)
Trad. 二婚頭
- remarried lady (contemptuous term)
- lady who marries for a second time
Trad. 二崙鄉
- Erlun or Erhlun township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
- second-hand house
- house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
- children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s
- see also 窮二代|穷二代[qiong2 er4 dai4]
Trad. 二林鎮
- Erlin or Erhlin Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan
- two-dimensional
- the fictional worlds of anime, comics and games
- lit. secondary foreigner
- (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion)
- (coll.) westernized Chinese person
- (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood
- (slang) Ukraine
- German shepherd dog
- (dialect) two-year-old goat
- (neologism) strange behavior characteristic of a teenager going through puberty (loanword from Japanese "chūnibyō")
- jing'erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the jinghu 京胡 and erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera
- also called 京胡
Trad. 二水鄉
- Ershui or Erhshui Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan
Trad. 窮二代
- those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s
- see also 富二代[fu4 er4 dai4]
- abbr. for 北京第二外國語學院|北京第二外国语学院[Bei3 jing1 Di4 er4 Wai4 guo2 yu3 Xue2 yuan4]
Trad. 二節棍
- nunchaku (weapon with two rods joined by a short chain, used in martial arts)
Trad. 二踢腳
- double-bang firecracker (which explodes once on the ground and then a second time in the air after being propelled upward)
- 12th April
- refers to Chiang Kai-shek's coup of 12th April 1927 against the communists in Shanghai
Trad. 二迭紀
- Permian (geological period 292-250m years ago)
- also written 二疊紀|二叠纪
Trad. 二進宮
- name of a famous opera
- (slang) to go to jail for a second offense
Trad. 二道區
- Erdao, a district of Changchun City 長春市|长春市[Chang2 chun1 Shi4], Jilin
Trad. 二里頭
- Erlitou (Xia dynasty 夏朝[Xia4 chao2] archaeological site at Yanshi 偃師|偃师[Yan3 shi1] in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳[Luo4 yang2], Henan)
- Antares, the brightest star in Scorpio 天蠍座|天蝎座[Tian1 xie1 zuo4]
Trad. 一窮二白
- impoverished
- backward both economically and culturally
Trad. 數一數二
- (idiom) reckoned to be best or second best; one of the very best
- (idiom) to list one by one
Trad. 光二極管
- photodiode
- light-emitting diode (LED)
- the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
- in two minds about sth (idiom)
- half-hearted
- shilly-shallying
- Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)