| | we; us; ourselves; our | HSK 1 |
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| | curtained carriage used by women / to gather together / to assemble | |
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| | lit. music, women, dogs and horses (traditional aristocratic amusements, with dogs and horses referring to activities such as hunting and riding) (idiom) / fig. wine, women and song; dissolute pleasures; a life of sensual indulgence | |
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| | (neologism, 2017) (slang) a pair of women whose seemingly close friendship is actually shallow, insincere and subtly competitive; fake besties; frenemies | |
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| | cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Brandy Melville, fashion brand known for clothes targeted at very slim young women / (generic usage) fashions for petite young women | |
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| | small and weak; puny / the small and weak; children; women and children | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | women's rights | |
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| | (of water) to rise / rising tide / (of women) to get one's period | |
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| | women's undergarments | |
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| | women's volleyball / abbr. for 女子排球 | |
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| | to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts to women for their companionship and sexual favors | |
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| | women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom) | |
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| | to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc) | |
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| | half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk | HSK 7-9 |
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| | men, women, young and old / everybody | |
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| | (usually of women) chastity / virginity / virtue / honor / loyalty / moral integrity | |
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| | women (in general) | |
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| | women's soccer; women's football / women's soccer team | |
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| | International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | three women makes a crowd | |
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| | square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China | |
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| | lit. the flowers in one's garden cannot match the fragrance of wild flowers (idiom) / fig. other women seem more attractive than one's own partner / the grass is always greener on the other side | |
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| | (slang) maiden; young lady (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 乙女 "otome", used esp. to refer to romantic media and games aimed at women) | |
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| | women's basketball / women's basketball team | |
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| | "she-economy" reflecting women's economic contribution / euphemism for prostitution-based economy | |
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| | source of calamity (esp. of women) | |
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| | men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb) | |
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| | women's league / women's association | |
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| | three women are enough for a drama (idiom) | |
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| | to make hanky-panky / to seduce women | |
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| | camisole (women's garment) | |
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| | women's clothes | |
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| | widow's peak (in China, regarded as attractive in women) | |
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| | (men) sideburns / (women) lengths of hair that hang down over the temples | |
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| | luck with women | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | (coll.) (usu. of women in former times) to marry for a second time / second marriage / person who remarries | |
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| | women's restroom; women's toilet | |
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| | chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy | |
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| | follower of wine and women / dissolute person | |
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| | (of women) beginning of menstrual cycle / full-term gestation | |
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| | nüshu writing, a phonetic syllabary for Yao ethnic group 瑤族|瑶族 dialect designed and used by women in Jiangyong county 江永縣|江永县 in southern Hunan | |
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| | director of the local committee of the Women's Federation | |
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| | men and women should not touch hands when they give or receive things (citation, from Mencius) | |
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| | (slang) negative, toxic competition between women (esp. in seeking the favor and approval of men) | |
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| | women's movement / feminism | |
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| | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women | |
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| | female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers. | |
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| | a feast for the eyes (idiom) / (of women) gorgeous / graceful / (of scenery) beautiful | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | All-China Women's Federation (PRC, established 1949) | |
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| | women's singles (in tennis, badminton etc) | |
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| | Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc | |
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| | towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50 | |
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| | men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom) | |
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| | (slang) (of women) to hunt for rich, attractive guys | |
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| | lady's demeanor / norms expected of women (in former times) | |
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| | women's doubles (in tennis, badminton etc) | |
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| | women and children | |
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| | men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages | |
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| | Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society | |
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| | Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women's singles) | |
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| | (bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable / (used in given names) / Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
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| | to regard men as superior to women (idiom) | |
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| | yellow flower (cosmetic powder used on women's forehead in former times) | |
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| | crown or tiara of a queen, empress or beauty pageant winner / first place in a women's competition | |
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| | old-fashioned women's obeisance / Taiwan pr. [lian4 ren4] | |
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| | to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women / an incorrigible drunkard and lecher | |
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| | (of women) grieved appearance (idiom) / sorrowful mien | |
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| | small arched door / boudoir; lady's chamber / (fig.) women | |
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| | women's quarters | |
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| | (Korean term) women who returned to Korea after being abducted during the Manchu invasions of Korea in the 17th century, only to be regarded as defiled and therefore ostracized, even by their own families | |
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| | door to women's room / gate to palace | |
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| | concubine / I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women) | |
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| | women and children | |
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| | long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao | |
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| | to chase women / to express oneself in a pompous flowery style | |
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| | beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom) | |
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| | cutie / sweetie / (Tw) camisole (women's garment) | |
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| | to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky | |
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| | palace corridor / fig. women's quarters / women | |
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| | cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban | |
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| | Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers | |
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| | court lady / palace maid / traditional painting of beautiful women | |
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| | cap worn by women / feminine | |
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| | Yang Wei (1979-), PRC badminton player, women's doubles specialist | |
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| | women love bad guys | |
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| | otome game – a romance simulation game targeted at women, typically featuring female protagonists and multiple male love interests (abbr. for 乙女遊戲|乙女游戏) | |
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| | Red Detachment of Women, revolutionary opera that premiered in 1964 | |
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| | greedy for sex / given to lust for women | |
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| | women's suffrage | |
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| | (derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order) | |
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| | female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers. | |
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| | (literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names) | |
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