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slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL: 塊|块,
HSK 3
carpenter
HSK 7-9
puppet
HSK 7-9
wood
HSK 7-9
tree
HSK 7-9
numb / insensitive / apathetic
HSK 7-9
slab / board / plank / CL: 張|张, 塊|块
HSK 7-9
woodcut; wood engraving
Temujin, birth name of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗
resolute and taciturn (idiom)
spoon (golf)
wooden
mummy (preserved corpse) (loanword)
Lake Mibgai Co or Miga Tso, in Dartsendo or Kangding 康定, Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan
wooden
sawmill; lumber mill
(bird species of China) red-collared woodpecker (Picus rabieri)
xylose (type of sugar)
wood shavings / sawdust
forest / forest tree
Jupiter (planet)
(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest
Tarim River of Xinjiang
cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
tree, esp. with recognizable trunk (as opposed to 灌木, bush or shrub)
hibiscus (Hibiscus syriacus)
pine wood / deal / larch
pit prop
fruit tree
bush / shrub
building / construction / civil engineering
lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined / a great sage has died (idiom)
wooden boat
puppet show
cork tile / cork flooring
Jiamusi, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省
wooden horse / rocking horse / vaulting horse (gymnastics) / trojan horse (computing)
wooden raft; log raft
logs
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(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
civil engineering
elm / elmwood
Mulan county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang
Trojan horse (type of computer virus)
xylem
Thursday (used in ancient Chinese astronomy)
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus
toy building blocks
papaya (Carica papaya) / genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae / Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)
charcoal
wooden stick
wooden clogs
woodcut
dugout / canoe / kayak
Mulan county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang / see 花木蘭|花木兰
lily magnolia (Magnolia liliflora)
beech
ebony
Jeminay county or Jéminey nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people
Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature
marionette
wooden and slow of speech / slow-speeched / inarticulate / unsophisticated
gramineae (family including bamboo, cereals, rice)
beam (gymnastics) / balance beam
to carry out large scale construction
wooden pile / stake
bakelite
a cork
woodwind instrument
to approach one's coffin (idiom); with one foot in the grave
Timur or Tamerlane (1336-1405), Mongol emperor and conqueror
to drill wood to make fire
sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)
a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb) / fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity
lignin
red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk
dead tree
woody plant
plant ash
Auricularia auricula-judae, an edible fungus
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
Tarim Basin depression in southern Xinjiang
cotton rose hibiscus (Hibiscus mutabilis)
two-character surname Duanmu
Kinoshita (Japanese surname)
flat piece of wood / wood chip / CL: 塊|块,
cassava, a tropical tuber plant
Phoebe zhennan / Machilus nanmu / Chinese cedar / Chinese giant redwood
Almaty, previous capital of Kazakhstan
lumber / timber
pomelo tree (Citrus maxima or C. grandis) / shaddock / oriental grapefruit
woodlouse
firewood
Hormuz, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf
alder

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