the meaning of a phonetic loan character 假借字[jiǎ jiè zì] acquired from a similar-sounding word (e.g. 而[ér] originally meant "beard" but acquired the meaning "and")
figurative meaning (of a word)
1.to remove ambiguity2.disambiguation (in Wikipedia)
1.in bad faith2.false3.perfidious
Yi'an, a district of Tongling City 铜陵市[tóng líng shì], Anhui
Yixianosaurus, genus of theropod dinosaur from Yi county 义县, Jinzhou 锦州, west Liaoning
1.to be loyal (to one's friends)2.to value loyalty
Said or Sayed (Arabic name)
(semantics) connotative meaning; connotation
1.civil obligation2.a citizen's duty
1.to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom)2.to break all friendly ties
compound word such as 教室[jiào shì] or 国家[guó jiā], whose meaning is related to the component hanzi, unlike compounds such as 玫瑰[méi guī]
Enlightenment (philosophy)
Shin'ŭiju, capital of North Pyong'an Province, North Korea
to make a pact of brotherhood (from “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” 三国演义[sān guó yǎn yì]) (idiom)
1.not to have any meaning2.meaningless
uncommon meaning of a common word
egoism masked by a veneer of urbanity (neologism c. 2012) (abbr. for 精致的利己主义[jīng zhì de lì jǐ zhǔ yì])
Sufism (Islamic mystic tradition)
1.fideism2.fundamentalism