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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | all over the place / everywhere and all directions | HSK 6 |
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| | all around | HSK 5 |
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| | courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | April | |
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| | (idiom) all directions; all around | HSK 7-9 |
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| | repeatedly / over and over again | |
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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology / abbr. to 四化 | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動｜四清运动 | |
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| | fourth of May, cf 五四運動｜五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| | green bean / French bean / runner bean | |
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| | all year round | |
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| | one-quarter | |
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| | the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢｜红楼梦, Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | forty / 40 | |
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| | the four great Chinese inventions: paper, printing, magnetic compass and gunpowder | |
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| | to be pushing 40 | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | April / fourth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu 成都市 (abbr. to 川 or 蜀) | |
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| | lit. on all sides, the songs of Chu (idiom) / fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and without help | |
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| | Thursday | |
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| | the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平｜邓小平 in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism | |
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| | (fig.) the whole world | |
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| | the coup of 12th Mar 1927, an attempt by Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the communists / called 反革命政變｜反革命政变 or 慘案｜惨案 in PRC literature | |
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| | Li Si, name for an unspecified person, second of a series of three: 張三｜张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry | |
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| | to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own | |
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| | the top four | |
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| | the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story | |
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| | May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| | Thursday | |
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| | (idiom) dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript | |
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| | Tiananmen Incident of June 4, 1989 | |
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| | the four basic operations of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) | |
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| | tetralogy | |
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| | four seasons like spring / favorable climate throughout the year | |
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| | the four limbs of the body | |
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| | Sichuan Daily | |
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| | lit. the four elements are vanity (idiom) / this world is an illusion | |
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| | Sichuan University | |
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| | all men are brothers | |
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| | servile | |
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| | the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施, Wang Zhaojun 王昭君, Diaochan 貂蟬｜貂蝉 and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環｜杨玉环 | |
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| | quadriceps muscle group / thigh muscles | |
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| | parallelogram | |
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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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| | Thursday | |
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| | (idiom) fragmented; scattered; in disarray; at sixes and sevens | |
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| | to be picky / to be choosy | |
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| | fourth / four times / quartic | |
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| | to aspire to travel far and make one's mark (idiom) | |
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| | everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary | |
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| | the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty | |
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| | Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學｜大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語｜论语, and Mencius 孟子 | |
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| | lit. Zhang Three and Li Four (idiom) / (fig.) any Tom, Dick or Harry | |
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| | (of a perfume or a foul odor) permeating the whole place / (of grease etc) dripping everywhere / flowing all over the place | |
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| | fourth-year university student | |
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| | all parts of the country | |
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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | cuboid / rectangular prism (math.) | |
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| | New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists | |
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| | the fourth estate; the press | |
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| | the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲｜平声, rising tone 上聲｜上声, departing tone 去聲｜去声 and entering tone 入聲｜入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin | |
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| | Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism, namely: Mt Wutai 五臺山｜五台山 in Shanxi, Mt Emei 峨眉山 in Sichuan, Mt Jiuhua 九華山｜九华山 in Anhui, Mt Potala 普陀山 in Zhejiang | |
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| | 64-bit (computing) | |
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| | crotchet (music) | |
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| | (TCM) the four methods of diagnosis, namely 望診｜望诊 (observation), 聞診｜闻诊 (auscultation and olfaction), 問診｜问诊 (interrogation), 切診｜切诊 (pulse feeling and palpation) | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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| | Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese-trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration | |
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| | one's nearest neighbors | |
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| | Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆｜笔, 墨, 紙｜纸 and 硯｜砚 / the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom) | |
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| | fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old) | |
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| | the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯｜杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰｜卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王｜骆宾王 | |
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| | quarterback (QB) (American football) | |
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| | fourth quarter (of financial year) | |
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| | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍 | |
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| | four generations under one roof (idiom) | |
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| | to disperse / to scatter in all directions | |
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| | the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war | |
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| | irregular quadrilateral / trapezium | |
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| | forgetful / empty-headed | |
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| | to become known far and wide (idiom) / famous | |
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| | four great basin depressions of China, namely: Tarim 塔里木盆地 in south Xinjiang, Jungar 準葛爾盆地｜准葛尔盆地 and Tsaidam or Qaidam 柴達木盆地｜柴达木盆地 in north Xinjiang Sichuan 四川盆地 | |
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| | the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor / see 禮義廉恥｜礼义廉耻 / the four directions / the four limbs (Chinese medicine) / four-dimensional | |
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| | four corner code (input method for Chinese characters) | |
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| | fried beans, Sichuan style | |
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| | Sihu (or Ssuhu) township in Yunlin county 雲林縣｜云林县, Taiwan | |
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| | to coax and plead | |
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| | (idiom) the whole world is at peace | |
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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | the four great caves, namely: Longmen Grottoes 龍門石窟｜龙门石窟 at Luoyang, Henan, Yungang Caves 雲岡石窟｜云冈石窟 at Datong, Shanxi, Mogao Caves 莫高窟 at Dunhuang, Gansu, and Mt Maiji Caves 麥積山石窟｜麦积山石窟 at Tianshui, Gansu | |
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| | to radiate all around | |
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| | to make hanky-panky / to seduce women | |
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| | danger lurks on every side (idiom) | |
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