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  *七* | 七* | *七
seven / 7
HSK 1
the seventies; the 1970s
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
at sixes and sevens / perturbed state of mind / in a mess
regardless of the consequences / recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast
seventy / 70
lively discussion with everybody talking at once
HSK 7-9
Dragon Ball, Japanese manga and anime series
July
one seventh
July / seventh month (of the lunar year)
Seven Samurai (movie)
distant relatives
tangram (traditional Chinese block puzzle)
medium well (of steak)
seventeen / 17
guqin or seven-stringed zither
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
(idiom) various emotions and desires
heptagon
three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation
Qixing, a district of Guilin City 桂林市, Guangxi
in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people)
almost / nearing completion / bits and piece / of all kinds
seven emotional states / seven affects of traditional Chinese medical theory and therapy, namely: joy , anger , anxiety 憂|忧, thought , grief , fear , fright 驚|惊 / seven relations
heptagon
(astronomy) Big Dipper
orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) / "chicken butt", popular Taiwan snack on a stick, made of marinated "white cut chicken" butt
lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom) / fig. greatly reduced / substantially scaled back
who cares / no matter what / regardless of the consequences
7 Up (soft drink) / Hedy Holding Co., PRC computer manufacturer
the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines (abbr. to 七律)
after all
(idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled
HSK 7-9
memorial activity 35 days after a person's death
Seven Powerful States of the Warring States, namely: 齊|齐, , , 韓|韩, 趙|赵, and
Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
leptospirosis
confused / distracted
pseudoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng), hemostatic herb
(slang) pimp
ratio seventy to thirty / thirty percent failure, seventy percent success
seven colors; a variety of colors / multicolored; rainbow-colored
(idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
the 7th day after a person's death / the first 7-day period after a person's death
Group of 77, loose alliance of developing countries, founded in 1964
seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
AAA battery (Taiwan equivalent: 四號電池|四号电池)
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校)
three immortal souls and seven mortal forms in Daoism, contrasting the spiritual and carnal side of man
(idiom) everything broken and in disorder
in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom)
HSK 7-9
(archaic) the seven duties of a sovereign
seventh (musical cord)
(idiom) twisting and turning / (idiom) tricky and complicated
(Chinese medicine) the seven kinds of prescriptions 大方, 小方, 緩方|缓方, 急方, 奇方, 偶方 and 重方 or 複方|复方
heptose (CH2O)7, monosaccharide with seven carbon atoms
Qimei or Chimei township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
tones of the musical scale
Chinese horse chestnut (Aesculus chinensis)
Qilihe, a district of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市, Gansu
heptathlon
seven mortal forms in Daoism, representing carnal life and desires / contrasted with 三魂 three immortal souls
thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong
everything in disorder (idiom) / in a hideous mess / obscene / dirty / filthy
pseudo-ginseng / radix notoginseng
Seventeen-Arch Bridge in the Summer Palace 頤和園|颐和园, Beijing
Erqi, a district of Zhengzhou City 鄭州市|郑州市, Henan
Pleiades M45
seven-year itch
misshapen / crooked / uneven (idiom)
Semirechye region of Kazakhstan, bordering Lake Balkash 巴爾喀什湖|巴尔喀什湖
seven floor pagoda
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
septuagenarian
bits and pieces / scattered fragments
Qitaihe, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省
Qidu, a district of Keelung City 基隆市, Taiwan
Qimei or Chimei township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
the seventy two martyrs of the Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
completely mixed up / in a muddle
assembled at random / a motley collection
Qixingguan, a district of Bijie City 畢節市|毕节市, Guizhou
the seven planets of premodern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校)
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
Rigel (star) / lit. seventh star of the Three Stars Chinese constellation
famous scene in Romance of the Three Kingdoms in which Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云 charges seven times through the ranks of Cao Cao's armies
term used in Taiwan for 黑白無常|黑白无常

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