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| | yellow / pornographic / to fall through | HSK 2 |
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| | gold / golden (opportunity) / prime (time) | HSK 4 |
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| | dusk / evening / nightfall | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname Huang or Hwang | |
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| | lutein (biochemistry) | |
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| | soybean | |
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| | Huangshan, a district of Huangshan City 黃山市|黄山市, Anhui | |
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| | gold color | |
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| | Chinese divination almanac | |
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| | (bird species of China) Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) | |
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| | golden yellow; golden | |
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| | the ovary and digestive glands of a female crab (eaten as a delicacy) | |
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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); to pursue a narrow gain while neglecting a greater danger | |
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| | jute (Corchorus capsularis Linn.) / plant fiber used for rope or sacks | |
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| | Huangpu River in Shanghai | |
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| | Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa), its rhizome used in TCM | |
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| | Huangpu District, Guangzhou / Whampoa (old transliteration) / Guangdong Harbor | |
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| | Yellow hat or Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism / also written 格魯派|格鲁派 | |
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| | lit. to take the yellow gown (idiom) / fig. to be made emperor / to take the crown | |
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| | Huangping county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州, Guizhou | |
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| | egg yolk | |
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| | Huangshi prefecture-level city in Hubei | |
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| | black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis) | |
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| | topaz | |
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| | lit. face yellow and body emaciated (idiom) / fig. malnourished and sickly in appearance | |
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| | riboflavin (vitamin B2) | |
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| | the Yellow Emperor, mythological emperor of China, reigned c. 2697-2597 BC | |
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| | Wong Tai Sin district of Kowloon, Hong Kong | |
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| | golden age | |
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| | rhubarb (botany) | |
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| | the main river through Shanghai / name of a district in Shanghai | |
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| | Huanghuagang (Chrysanthemum Hill) in Guangzhou, scene of disastrous uprising of 23rd April 1911 | |
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| | "yellow wine" (mulled rice wine, usually served warm) | |
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| | lit. house made of gold / fig. luxurious residence | |
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| | orpiment / arsenic trisulfide As2S3 / make changes in writing / malign / criticize without grounds | |
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| | Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis), rhizome used in medicine | |
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| | bumblebee | |
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| | Yellow River or Huang He | |
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| | brass (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and zinc 鋅|锌) | |
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| | name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain) | |
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| | Yellow Peril, political novel by Wang Lixiong 王力雄 | |
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| | yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations) | |
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| | yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) | |
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| | wasp | |
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| | light yellow | |
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| | glistening yellow; golden | |
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| | ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise | |
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| | Neihuang county in Anyang 安陽|安阳, Henan | |
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| | Huanggang prefecture-level city in Hubei | |
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| | (sports) yellow card / (fig.) admonishment | |
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| | Huangshi prefecture-level city in Hubei | |
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| | the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184) | |
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| | Huangpu district, central Shanghai | |
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| | Huangyan district of Taizhou city 台州市, Zhejiang | |
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| | the Yellow Springs / the underworld of Chinese mythology / the equivalent of Hades or Hell | |
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| | Huang Tao (840-911), late Tang poet | |
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| | Yellow Sea | |
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| | milk vetch / plant genus Astragalus / huangqi 黃芪|黄芪, Astragalus membranaceus (used in TCM) | |
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| | macula lutea (anatomy, central area of retina) / yellow spot | |
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| | Loess Plateau of northwest China | |
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| | Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom) | |
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| | Huang Shigong, also known as Xia Huanggong 夏黃公|夏黄公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author | |
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| | Yihuang county in Fuzhou 撫州|抚州, Jiangxi | |
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| | Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi | |
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| | Huangmei county in Huanggang 黃岡|黄冈, Hubei | |
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| | Huangpu District of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市, Guangdong | |
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| | yellow croaker (fish) | |
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| | jaundice | |
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| | turmeric | |
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| | flavone | |
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| | The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC | |
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| | yellow-green | |
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| | Huangpi district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei | |
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| | Huangmei opera (local opera of Anhui) | |
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| | campaign against pornography | |
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| | (astronomy) the ecliptic | |
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| | Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: Rma-lho Bod-rigs rang skyong khul) in Qinghai | |
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| | Neihuang county in Anyang 安陽|安阳, Henan | |
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| | yellow croaker (fish) / corvina | |
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| | sallow / yellow and withered / sickly | |
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| | Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) (CL: 條|条) | |
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| | huangqi / milk vetch root (used in TCM) / Astragalus membranaceus or Astragalus mongholicus | |
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| | dream of golden millet / fig. illusions of wealth and power / pipe dream | |
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| | lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom); the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop / temporary deficit in manpower or resources / unable to make ends meet | |
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| | Huangshigang district of Huangshi city 黃石市|黄石市, Hubei | |
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| | loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China) | |
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| | lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean / fig. to become inexorably mixed up / mired in controversy / in deep trouble | |
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| | Bordered Yellow banner or Hövööt Shar khoshuu in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Huangmei county in Huanggang 黃岡|黄冈, Hubei | |
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| | rickshaw | |
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| | (of a woman) old and faded | |
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