Sentence Composition
| 1 | 开罗 | Kāiluó | Cairo, capital of Egypt |
| =2 | 的 | de |
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| =2 | 的 | dī | a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì) |
| =2 | 的 | dí | really and truly |
| =2 | 的 | dì | (bound form) bull's-eye; target |
| 3 | 一 | yī |
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| 4 | 栋 | dòng |
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| 5 | 大楼 | dàlóu | building (a relatively large, multistory one) |
| 6 | 倒塌 | dǎotā |
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| =7 | 了 | le |
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| =7 | 了 | liǎo |
| =7 | 了 | liǎo |
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| =7 | 了 | liào | unofficial variant of 瞭 liào |