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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *周* | 周* | *周
to make a circuit / to circle / circle / circumference / lap / cycle / complete / all / all over / thorough / to help financially
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *期* | 期* | *期
variant of / period / cycle
HSK 3
period / cycle
HSK 5
to cycle / to circulate / circle / loop
HSK 6
auto race / cycle race / race car
HSK 7-9
human sympathy / humanitarianism / humane / the "human way", one of the stages in the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhism) / sexual intercourse
HSK 7-9
thirty-fifth year E11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1958 or 2018
eight year H8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1991 or 2051
to reincarnate / reincarnation (Buddhism) / (of the seasons etc) to follow each other cyclically / cycle / CL: 個|个
twenty-eighth year H4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2011 or 2071
fifty-seventh year G9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1980 or 2040
forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031 / cf 辛亥革命, Xinhai Revolution of 1911
thirtieth year J6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2013 or 2073
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
colloquial term for 生肖 the animals associated with the years of a 12-year cycle
song cycle in Chinese opera / (fig.) a series of tricks / polite remarks / number of (things that are counted in , like houses)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *茬* | 茬* | *茬
stubble (crop residue) / stubble (hair growth) / classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop / sth just said or mentioned
lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles / the wheel comes full circle
splitcharactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *MC* | MC* | *MC
(Tw) (coll.) menstruation (from "menstrual cycle")
rotating disk / wheel / rotor / cycle of reincarnation in Buddhism
to ride (a bicycle, horse, motorbike etc) / cycling; horseback riding; motorbike riding
thirty-ninth year I3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1962 or 2022
41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024
thirty-sixth year F12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1959 or 2019
discharge volume / engine capacity / engine displacement (volume of air fuel mixture drawn in during one cycle)
thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021 / cf 辛丑條約|辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising
twelfth year B12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1995 or 2055
twenty-third year C11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2006 or 2066
forty-fourth year D8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1967 or 2027
tenth year J10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1993 or 2053
forty-seventh year G11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1970 or 2030
nineteenth year I7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2002 or 2062
twenty-ninth year I5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2012 or 2072
51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034
second year B2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1985 or 2045
fifty-third year C5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1976 or 2036
twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067
Tour de France cycle race / abbr. for 環法自行車賽|环法自行车赛
thirty-third year C9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1956 or 2016
fifth year E5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1988 or 2048
forty-third year C7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1966 or 2026
sixteenth year F4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1999 or 2059
forty-fifth year E9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1968 or 2028
fifteenth year E3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1998 or 2058
fifty-fourth year D6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1977 or 2037
fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047
21st year A9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2004 or 2064
forty-sixth year F10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1969 or 2029
thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014
twentieth year J8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2003 or 2063
fifty-sixth year F8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1979 or 2039
third year C3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1986 or 2046
eighteenth year H6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2001 or 2061
sixtieth year J12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1983 or 2043
fortieth year J4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1963 or 2023
first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干 and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支) / the sixty-year cycle
fiftieth year J2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1973 or 2033
thirty-second year B8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1955 or 2015
thirty-fourth year D10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1957 or 2017
forty-ninth year I1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1972 or 2032
sixth year F6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1989 or 2049
fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057
twenty-second year B10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2005 or 2065
twenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070
37th year G1 of the 60-year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020
fifty-second year B4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1975 or 2035
seventeenth year G5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2000 or 2060
complete sexagenary cycle / a 60 year-old person / passage of time
eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1994 or 2054
King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle
twenty-fifth year E1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2008 or 2068
to cycle
fifty-ninth year I11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1982 or 2042
cycle (physics)
cycle time / cycle speed
to cyclize / cyclization (chemistry)
safe period / safe days of a woman's menstrual cycle (low risk of conception)
(of women) beginning of menstrual cycle / full-term gestation
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支
fuel cycle
one week / all the way around / a whole cycle
cell cycle
spin class; indoor cycling class (a type of group fitness class) / exercise bike used in such a class; spin bike
to have one's fortune read / system of fortune telling based on a person's date and time of birth, according to 干支 (sexagenary cycle)
motor racetrack / cycle racetrack
economic cycle
virtuous cycle (i.e. positive feedback loop)
citric acid cycle / Krebs cycle / tricarboxylic acid cycle
cycle race
time trial (e.g. in cycle race) / timed race / competition against the clock
BMX (bike) / cycling BMX (sport)
life cycle
to flip a table over (in a fit of anger) / (at a restaurant) to turn over a table (i.e. to complete a cycle from the seating of one group of diners until the arrival of another group at the same table)
track bike / track cycling
cycling stadium / velodrome
luteal phase (period in the menstrual cycle when an embryo can implant in the womb)
thirteenth year C1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1996 or 2056
forty-second year B6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1965 or 2025
old-style cycle with lateral third wheel and passenger seat
keirin cycle race (paced stadium event) (loanword from Japanese 競輪 "keirin")

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