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瓦
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Definitions
- 1. roof tile
Example Sentences
1 shown布羅尼斯 瓦 18歲。
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Words Containing 瓦
Wangfangdian, county-level city in Dalian 大連|大连[dà lián], Liaoning
see 特瓦族[tè wǎ zú]
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth president of Brazil
Varyag, former Soviet aircraft carrier purchased by China and renamed 遼寧號|辽宁号[liáo níng hào]
Mt Kawakarpo (6740 m) in Yunnan, the highest peak of Meili Snow Mountains 梅里雪山[méi lǐ xuě shān]
Parvati (Hindu deity, the consort of Shiva)
Sava River, flowing through Southeast Europe
Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)
three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
megawatt
Vakhsh river (upper reaches of Amu Darya)
Siwa, Egypt
Varna (city in Bulgaria)
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Wallis (name)
room tiles
tile-roofed house
fatwa (loanword)
Varangian (medieval term for Viking)
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, secretary-general of UN 1972-1981, president of Austria 1986-1992
Tarawa, capital of Kiribati
Geneva, Switzerland
Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania
tiling (of roofs, floors, walls etc)
gas (loanword)
Vivaldi (name)
milliwatt
Walloon, inhabitant of Southern French-speaking area of Belgium
megawatt
Avat nahiyisi (Awat county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[ā kè sū dì qū], west Xinjiang
Oswald
(usu. of the sky) azure; bright blue
megawatt-hour
lit. contribute bricks and tiles for a building (idiom)
Botswana
Peshawar, city in north Pakistan
Tuva, a republic in south-central Siberia, Russia
sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwaddy River, the main river of Myanmar (Burma)
San Salvador, capital of El Salvador
Vasilievich (name)
Vadsø (city in Finnmark, Norway)
Rojava (de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria)
Blue House (Cheong Wa Dae), residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul
to collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Walter
another name for Mandalay 曼德勒, Myanmar's second city
bricklayer
Twa or Batwa, an ethnic group in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
(molecular physics) van der Waals force
Waldersee (name)
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
shiny
wasabi (loanword)
Wallis and Futuna (French island collectivity in the South Pacific)
ink slab
Iowa, US state
Chihuahua, Mexico
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban Revolution leader
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady River, the main river of Myanmar
Svolvær (city in Nordland, Norway)
eaves-tile
deciwatt
tile
Huelva, Spain
Wroclaw, Polish city
lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof (idiom)
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870
Better broken jade than intact tile.
Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein
to melt like ice and break like tiles
the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg)
poor and shabby dwelling
van der Waals
Tuvalu
rubble
the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated
Swahili
Laval (name)
kilowatt (unit of electric power)
Wakhan Corridor, panhandle in the northeast of Afghanistan sharing a border with China at its eastern end
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格[ā nuò dé · shī wǎ xīn gé]
(molecular physics) van der Waals force
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Nahuatl (language)
valkyrie
Vasily (name)
Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[hū lún bèi ěr], Inner Mongolia
Tskhinvali, capital of South Osetia
rows of tiles
Évariste Galois (1811-1832), French mathematician
Wardak (Afghan province)
Havana, capital of Cuba
Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
pottery
tear gas
brick house with a tiled roof
Loire River, France
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia
Córdoba, Spain
asbestos roofing sheet (corrugated)
Buchenwald
Denisovan, an extinct species of human
Navassa
Wardak (Afghan province)
Rivaldo
Wangfangdian, county-level city in Dalian 大連|大连[dà lián], Liaoning
El Salvador
glazed roof tile
Vardø (city in Finnmark, Norway)
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa
green
pile of rubble
Botswana
Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
a sour (type of cocktail) (loanword)
Schwab (name)
watt (loanword)
François Hollande (1954-), French Socialist politician, president of France 2012-2017
bricklayer
Anwar (name)
Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
Rotorua, city in New Zealand
slate tile
Irrawaddy Delta in south Myanmar (Burma)
tiling
Swat province in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
kilowatt-hour
Oirat Mongols (alliance of tribes of Western Mongolia) (Ming Dynasty term)
Duvalier (name)
Galois theory (math.)
Valletta, capital of Malta
shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)
Navajo
shingle
Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007), Italian operatic tenor
complete disintegration
Avat nahiyisi (Awat county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[ā kè sū dì qū], west Xinjiang
Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)
Namcha Barwa (7,782 m), Himalayan mountain
poisonous gas
places of pleasure (like brothels, tea houses etc)
Iowa, US state
Delacroix (painter)
Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam)
Newark (place name)
ink stone or ink slab made from an antique palace tile
tiles and bricks
Araba or Álava
to collapse
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwaddy River, the main river of Myanmar (Burma)
Częstochowa (city in Poland)
Váli (son of Odin)
Tabasco (south Mexican state)
Suva, capital of Fiji
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry
Albacete, Spain
Swahili (language)