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  *等* | 等* | *等
to wait for; to await / by the time; when; till / and so on; etc.; et al. / (bound form) class; rank; grade / (bound form) equal to; same as / (used to end an enumeration) / (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
HSK 1
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  *灯* | 灯* | *灯
lamp / light / lantern / CL: 盞|盏
HSK 2
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  *登* | 登* | *登
to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
HSK 4
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution / wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨|马南邨
material and spiritual culture / matter and mind / material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)
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
modernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
modernization of national defense, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
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  *瞪* | 瞪* | *瞪
to open (one's eyes) wide / to stare at / to glare at
HSK 7-9
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  *蹬* | 蹬* | *蹬
to step on; to tread on / to put on; to wear (shoes, trousers etc) / (slang) to dump (sb) / Taiwan pr. [deng4]
HSK 7-9
Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory & the Three Represents (abbr. for 毛澤東思想|毛泽东思想 + 鄧小平理論|邓小平理论 + 三個代表|三个代表)
science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化)
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
(lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution
Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978)
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  *澄* | 澄* | *澄
(of liquid) to settle / to become clear
Deng Xiaoping Theory / Dengism / the foundation of PRC economic development after the Cultural Revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese Communist Party control
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  *磴* | 磴* | *磴
cliff-ledge / stone step
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  *蹬* | 蹬* | *蹬
used in 蹭蹬
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  *戥* | 戥* | *戥
small steelyard for weighing money
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  *凳* | 凳* | *凳
bench / stool
children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s / see also 窮二代|穷二代
Deng Shichang (1849-1894), Qing dynasty naval specialist, founded naval dockyards and two naval colleges, died heroically in action against the Japanese
Deng Yingchao (1904-1992), Chinese communist leader, wife of Zhou Enlai 周恩來|周恩来
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  *僜* | 僜* | *僜
Deng ethnic minority of Tibet
modernization of industry, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping
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  *邓* | 邓* | *邓
surname Deng
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  *镫* | 镫* | *镫
stirrup
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  *噔* | 噔* | *噔
(onom.) thud; thump
Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"
pen name of Deng Xiaoping during his 1992 southern tour
Deng Tong (2nd c. BC), one of the wealthiest Former Han Dynasty 前漢|前汉 officials
Ma Nancun (1912-1966), pen name of Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓
abbr. for 四個現代化|四个现代化, Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations
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  *豋* | 豋* | *豋
ceremonial vessel
Deng Yaping (1973-), table tennis player, several times world and Olympic winner
modernization of science and technology, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
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  *簦* | 簦* | *簦
large umbrella for stalls / an ancient kind of bamboo or straw hat
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  *嶝* | 嶝* | *嶝
path leading up a mountain
Deng Xi (545-501 BC), Chinese philosopher and rhetorician, the first lawyer of ancient China
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
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  *凳* | 凳* | *凳
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