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- (bound form) thing
- (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
Trad. 實物
- material object
- concrete object
- original object
- in kind
- object for practical use
- definite thing
- reality
- matter (physics)
Trad. 異物
- rarity
- rare delicacy
- foreign matter
- alien body
- the dead
- ghost
- monstrosity
- alien life-form
- luck
- to create the universe
- god (as the creator of all things)
- the Creator
Trad. 舊物
- old property (esp. inherited from former generation)
- former territory
Trad. 長物
- (literary) things other than the bare necessities of life
- item of some value
- Taiwan pr. [zhang4 wu4]
Trad. 物業
- property
- real estate
- abbr. for 物業管理|物业管理[wu4 ye4 guan3 li3], property management
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance)
- character (in a play, novel etc)
- (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学[li3 xue2]
- word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
- (biology) the biological world; the realm of living organisms
Trad. 四物湯
- four-substance decoction (si wu tang), tonic formula used in Chinese medicine
Trad. 購物節
- shopping festival; large-scale promotional sales event (e.g. Singles' Day 雙十一|双十一[Shuang1 Shi2 yi1])
Trad. 乾物女
- single girl who lives a lackadaisical life, uninterested in relationships (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 干物女 "himono onna")