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ID	Chinese	Trad.	Pinyin	PlainPY	English Definition
ID	Chinese	Trad.	Pinyin	PlainPY	English Definition
1	大旱望霓	大旱望霓	dà hàn wàng ní	da4 han4 wang4 ni2	see 大旱望云霓
2	大旱望云霓	大旱望雲霓	dà hàn wàng yún ní	da4 han4 wang4 yun2 ni2	lit. looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom); fig. desperate for an escape from a difficult situation
3	大旱之望云霓	大旱之望雲霓	dà hàn zhī wàng yún ní	da4 han4 zhi1 wang4 yun2 ni2	see 大旱望云霓
4	霓	蜺	ní	ni2	secondary rainbow; Japanese cicada; old variant of 霓
5	霓裳	霓裳	ní cháng	Ni2 chang2	nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙 ; Nichang, abbr. for the Tang Dynasty song "Raiment of Rainbows and Feathers" 霓裳羽衣曲
6	霓虹	霓虹	ní hóng	ni2 hong2	rainbow; neon (loanword)
7	霓虹灯	霓虹燈	ní hóng dēng	ni2 hong2 deng1	neon lamp (loanword)
8	霓虹国	霓虹國	ní hóng guó	Ni2 hong2 guo2	(slang) Japan (loanword from the Japanese word for Japan, "Nihon")