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| | ten / 10 | HSK 1 |
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| | eleven / 11 | |
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| | first of October / PRC National Day / same as 國慶｜国庆 | |
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| | sixteen / 16 | |
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| | twenty / 20 | |
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| | fifteen / 15 | |
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| | thirteen / 13 | |
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| | eighteen / 18 | |
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| | December / twelfth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | fourteen / 14 | |
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| | November / eleventh month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | fifty | |
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| | forty / 40 | |
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| | nineteen / 19 | |
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| | seventeen / 17 | |
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| | ample / complete / hundred percent / a pure shade (of some color) | HSK 6 |
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| | ninety | |
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| | sixty / 60 | |
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| | eighty / 80 | |
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| | to divide into ten equal parts / very / hundred percent / completely / extremely / utterly / absolutely | HSK 4 |
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| | seventy / 70 | |
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| | thirty / 30 | |
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| | more than ten / a dozen or more | |
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| | hundred thousand | |
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| | October / tenth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | thirtieth | |
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| | the twelve constellations on the ecliptic plane / the signs of the zodiac | |
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| | the tens place (or column) in the decimal system | |
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| | one billion / giga- | |
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| | tenfold / ten times (sth) | |
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| | thirteenth day of a month | |
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| | crossroads / intersection | |
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| | October | |
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| | 20th century | |
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| | one tenth | |
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| | last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve | |
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| | cross / crucifix / yoke one has to endure | |
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| | 21st century | |
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| | the seventies / the 1970s | |
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| | November | |
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| | December | |
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| | the sixties / the 1960s | |
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| | The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems | |
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| | ten items / decathlon (athletics) | |
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| | more than ten / a dozen or more | |
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| | exceedingly / hundred percent / everything and more | |
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| | a hundred or so | |
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| | Ambush from ten sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀｜张艺谋) | |
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| | crusaders / army of crusaders / the Crusades | |
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| | three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation | |
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| | the twelve equatorial constellations or signs of the zodiac in Western astronomy and astrology, namely: Aries 白羊, Taurus 金牛, Gemini 雙子｜双子, Cancer 巨蟹, Leo 獅子｜狮子, Virgo 室女, Libra 天秤, Scorpio 天蠍｜天蝎, Sagittarius 人馬｜人马, Capricorn 摩羯, Aquarius 寶瓶｜宝瓶, Pisces 雙魚｜双鱼 | |
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| | lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail | |
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| | several billion | |
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| | thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius) | |
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| | Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義｜武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Taiwan) National Day | |
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| | complete and beautiful / to be perfect (idiom) | |
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| | to put one's palms together (in prayer or greeting) | |
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| | brilliant colors | |
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| | 12-yard (sports) / penalty kick | |
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| | completely | |
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| | half-witted / nitwit | |
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| | the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經｜易经 | |
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| | the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods | |
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| | several billion | |
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| | Hong Kong Red Cross | |
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| | cruciform / cross shape | |
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| | October Revolution | |
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| | most urgent / post-haste / express | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | decathlon | |
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| | ten commandments | |
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| | pretty close / very near / about right | |
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| | the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经, Book of History 尚書｜尚书, Rites of Zhou 周禮｜周礼, Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮｜仪礼, Classic of Rites 禮記｜礼记, Book of Changes 易經｜易经, Mr Zuo's Annals 左傳｜左传, Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊傳｜公羊传, Mr Guliang's Annals 穀梁傳｜谷梁传, The Analects 論語｜论语, Erya 爾雅｜尔雅, Classic of Filial Piety 孝經｜孝经, Mencius 孟子 | |
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| | decimal / calculations to base 10 | |
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| | the twenty-eight constellations | |
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| | the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / the pot calls the kettle black | |
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| | the Ming tombs (mausoleum park of the Ming emperors in Changping district of Beijing) | |
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| | YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral | |
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| | blackjack (card game) | |
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| | in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people) | |
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| | extremely certain / ninety percent sure | |
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| | Benedict XVI (Pope) / Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), Pope from 2005 | |
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| | the Crusades / crusaders' eastern expedition | |
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| | decagram | |
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| | lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was | |
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| | Sixteen Kingdoms of five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439) / also written 五胡十六國｜五胡十六国 | |
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| | the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements / (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city | |
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| | the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers) | |
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| | Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China | |
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| | decimal system | |
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| | the ten commandments (religion) | |
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| | the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty | |
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| | decimal | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | sonnet | |
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| | The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 by Kasyapa-Matanga 迦葉摩騰 and Gobharana 竺法蘭 (Dharmaraksha) | |
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| | twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions) | |
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| | Shanghai Y-10 / Yun-10 commercial jet aircraft | |
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