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cold (climate) / frigid / very cold
HSK 4
winter vacation
HSK 4
nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
wind chill / cold weather / common cold (medicine)
cold wave / CL:
(idiom) to show concern about sb's well-being
murine typhus fever
cold winter
affected by cold / to catch cold
typhoid
Hanlu or Cold Dew, 17th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd October
lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom); fig. intimately interdependent
typhoid
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寒* | 寒* | *寒
cold / poor / to tremble
shiver
a life of strenuous studies (idiom)
polar climate
coldproof / resistant to cold
bitter cold / severe winter
cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) / the Qingming festival
a nip in the air / chilliness
to exchange conventional greetings; to exchange pleasantries
my humble home
stomach cold (TCM)
wretched / poverty-stricken / unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
Han Han (1982-), PRC blogger, singer and professional rally driver
to enquire solicitously about sb's well-being (idiom) / to pamper
cold air / a chill one feels in the body (when exposed to cold air)
disillusioned / bitterly disappointed / terrified
poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
bitterly disappointed / frightened
Lesser Cold, 23rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-19th January
to warm oneself / to expel the cold (TCM)
to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
paratyphoid fever
Great Cold, 24th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th January-3rd February
the Cambrian explosion
Cambrian geological period (541-485.4 million years ago)
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
to relieve cold
salmonella typhimurium
overcoat / down jacket / winter wear
high and cold (mountain area)
to be of humble origin (idiom)
Hanting district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself) / Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia
lower Cambrian series (geological strata from approx 530 million years ago)
bitter cold
alone and poor / humble / (Cantonese) miserly
(of a bladed weapon etc) to gleam coldly
the Cambrian explosion
ugly / shameful / to ridicule
murine typhus
it's lonely at the top (idiom)
hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty
(polite) my wife (old)
the chilling effect of a climate of fear in which people are afraid to speak their mind
three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day
(old) impoverished scholar
chilly weather / (loanword from Japanese) agar-agar
winter clothing
lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling
(idiom) (of early spring weather) alternating between warm and cold
lit. not cold, yet shivering (idiom) / fig. to tremble with fear / to be terrified
a shiver
to fear / to be terrified
to escape the cold by going on a winter holiday
Hanting district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
of humble origin
fine hair on the human body
beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty
to be scared out of one's wits
(idiom) bitterly cold; frigid
the north frigid zone
poor / underprivileged / (of weather) crisp and clear
to defend against the cold; to keep warm
the Cambrian explosion
bone chilling wind (idiom)
pre-Cambrian, geological period before c. 540m years ago
typhus
desolate and cold / frozen wastes
lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idiom)
lower Cambrian (geological period approx 530 million years ago)
murine typhus fever
cold snap during the spring
(bird species of China) Daurian jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus)
cold and desolate
cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom); fig. cold and solitary existence
(bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
to dispel cold (TCM)
variant of 一曝十寒
variant of 寒磣|寒碜


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