Lu Xun (1881-1936), one of the earliest and best-known modern Chinese writers

Brooklyn, borough of New York City

coarse, crude, or impolite in one's manner or behavior

blues (music) (loanword)

Andrew (name)

hot-headed, impulsive, or reckless

Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964

Georgia (country)

transliterated name for Brook; specifically Peter Brook (1925–2022), a highly influential British theater and film director

alternative name for Shandong province

Brussels, capital of Belgium

Beirut, capital of Lebanon

Ürümqi, prefecture-level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

Châteauroux, a town in central France, capital of the Indre department

Brutus (name)

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician and the first prime minister of India (1947-1964)

guru (loanword)

Lu Su (172-217), statesman, diplomat, and strategist of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

Prussia (historical German state)

Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry

Lu, a vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty located in present-day Shandong, the birthplace of Confucius

procaine (nerve blocking agent)

Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet

Robert E. Rubin (1938-), US Treasury Secretary 1995-1999 under President Clinton

La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)

Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author

Shandong cuisine, one of the eight major culinary traditions of China

Rouen (city in France)

Lushan County in Pingdingshan City, Henan

Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific

King Farouk of Egypt (1920-1965), reigned from 1936 to 1952

Perugia (city in Italy)

Turpan, a prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

Urumqi county (Uighur: Ürümchi Nahiyisi) in Urumqi, Xinjiang

the Turpan Depression in Xinjiang

Pinglu district of Shuozhou city [[朔州市|朔州市|Shuo4 zhou1 Shi4]], Shanxi

the Ruhr, a region in Germany

Bruges (Dutch Brugge), a medieval town in Belgium

Karlsruhe (city in Germany)

Innsbruck, city in Austria

Honolulu, the capital and largest city of the state of Hawaii