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- Oirat Mongols (alliance of tribes of Western Mongolia) (Ming Dynasty term)
Trad. 青瓦臺
- the Blue House (or Cheong Wa Dae), formerly the residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul (1948–2022), now a public park
Trad. 安瓦爾
- (name) Anwar
- Anwar Ibrahim (1947–), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2022–
- Twa or Batwa, an ethnic group in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Trad. 沙瓦瑪
- shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)
Trad. 伽羅瓦
- Évariste Galois (1811–1832), French mathematician
Trad. 拉瓦錫
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry
Trad. 羅賈瓦
- Rojava (de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria)
- Waldersee (name)
- Alfred Graf Von Waldersee (1832-1904), commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance 八國聯軍|八国联军[Ba1 guo2 Lian2 jun1]
- Avat nahiyisi (Awat county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[A1 ke4 su1 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
Trad. 韋瓦第
- Vivaldi (name)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Italian composer
- Varyag, former Soviet aircraft carrier purchased by China and renamed 遼寧號|辽宁号[Liao2 ning2 Hao4]
- (name) Wallis
- John Wallis (1616–1703), English mathematician
- to melt like ice and break like tiles
- to disintegrate
- to dissolve
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor and politician
Trad. 帕爾瓦蒂
- Parvati (Hindu deity, the consort of Shiva)
- Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady, the main river of Myanmar
Trad. 帕瓦羅蒂
- Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), Italian operatic tenor
Trad. 三瓦兩舍
- places of pleasure (like brothels, tea houses etc)
Trad. 瓦努阿圖
- Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
Trad. 阿瓦提縣
- Avat nahiyisi (Awat county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[A1 ke4 su1 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
- Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia
- Wafangdian, a county-level city in Dalian City 大連市|大连市[Da4 lian2 Shi4], Liaoning
Trad. 阿瓦魯阿
- Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
- Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa
Trad. 破瓦寒窯
- lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house
- poor and shabby dwelling
- Wakhan Corridor, panhandle in the northeast of Afghanistan sharing a border with China at its eastern end
Trad. 達克瓦茲
- (loanword) dacquoise (a French dessert)
Trad. 卡薩諾瓦
- Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Trad. 添磚加瓦
- lit. contribute bricks and tiles for a building (idiom)
- fig. to do one's bit to help
Trad. 斷瓦殘垣
- the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated
Trad. 聖薩爾瓦多
- San Salvador, capital of El Salvador
Trad. 納瓦特爾語
- Nahuatl (language)
Trad. 伽羅瓦理論
- (math.) Galois theory
Trad. 斯瓦希里語
- Swahili (language)
- Kiswahili
- Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
Trad. 斯福爾瓦爾
- Svolvær (city in Nordland, Norway)
Trad. 德拉克羅瓦
- Delacroix (painter)
Trad. 阿爾瓦塞特
- Albacete (capital city of Spain's Albacete Province)
Trad. 弗羅茨瓦夫
- Wroclaw, Polish city
Trad. 摩爾多瓦人
- Moldovan (person)
- Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam)
Trad. 瓦爾達克省
- Wardak (Afghan province)
- Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania
Trad. 瓦赫基爾河
- Vakhsh river (upper reaches of Amu Darya)
- Namcha Barwa (7,782 m), Himalayan mountain
- van der Waals
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923), Dutch physicist
- Mt Kawakarpo (6740 m) in Yunnan, the highest peak of Meili Snow Mountains 梅里雪山[Mei2 li3 Xue3 shan1]
- Denisovan, an extinct species of human
- Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967), Cuban Revolution leader
Trad. 塞瓦斯托波爾
- Sevastopol, port city on the Crimean Peninsula
Trad. 里瓦幾亞條約
- Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)
- (Tw) Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Trad. 瓦西里耶維奇
- Vasilievich (name)
- (molecular physics) van der Waals force
Trad. 瓦利斯和富圖納
- Wallis and Futuna (French island collectivity in the South Pacific)
Trad. 科特迪瓦共和國
- Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Trad. 阿諾·施瓦辛格
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
- also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格[A1 nuo4 de2 · Shi1 wa3 xin1 ge2]
Trad. 普爾熱瓦爾斯基
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870
- abbr. to 普氏
Trad. 風中燭，瓦上霜
- lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof (idiom)
- fig. (of sb's life) feeble
- hanging on a thread
Trad. 斯瓦爾巴和揚馬延
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Trad. 弗朗索瓦·霍蘭德
- François Hollande (1954-), French Socialist politician, president of France 2012-2017
- also written 奧朗德|奥朗德[Ao4 lang3 de2]
Trad. 黃鐘譭棄瓦釜雷鳴
- lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells
- good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
Trad. 阿諾德·施瓦辛格
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
Trad. 庫爾特·瓦爾德海姆
- Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, secretary-general of UN 1972-1981, president of Austria 1986-1992
Trad. 寧為玉碎，不為瓦全
- Better broken jade than intact tile.
- Death is preferable to dishonor. (idiom)
- three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- spare the rod, spoil the child