| | novel / fiction / CL: 本, 部 | HSK 2 |
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| | people from the same workplace or profession; co-worker; colleague / (fandom) fan creator or enthusiast involved in derivative works (e.g. fan fiction, fan art) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Daoist immortal / supernatural entity / (in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc / fig. lighthearted person | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布｜吕布 | |
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| | Ultraman, Japanese science fiction superhero | |
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| | quantum foam (in string theory, and science fiction) | |
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| | Li Chaowei (c. 766-c. 820), Tang writer of fantasy fiction 傳奇｜传奇, author of 柳毅傳｜柳毅传 | |
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| | brocade sack of miracle plans (idiom); bag of tricks / fiendishly cunning masterplan (written out by strategic genius of fiction, and given to the local commander in a brocade bag) | |
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| | (idiom) military title said to have existed in the Han dynasty, allegedly granted to officials tasked with retrieving gold from tombs to fund military campaigns; (in popular fiction) tomb raider | |
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| | pingshu, a folk art where a single performer narrates stories from history or fiction | |
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| | Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業｜杨业 of warriors | |
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| | police and criminals / (genre of fiction) crime | |
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| | future events / and what happened next... (in fiction) / funeral arrangements | |
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| | shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea) / useless troops (idiom) | |
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| | sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction) / fig. a well-informed person | |
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| | (Buddhism) to designate the boundaries of a sacred place within which monks are to be trained; a place so designated / (fantasy fiction) force field; invisible barrier (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 結界 "kekkai") | |
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| | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒 | |
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| | an imagined romantic relationship between two characters in fiction (or in real life) that one wishes for or fantasizes about (abbr. of "coupling") | |
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| | non-fiction | |
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| | handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status) | |
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| | science fiction | |
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| | variant of 尚方劍｜尚方剑 / imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill | |
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| | alternate history; counterfactual history (genre of fiction) | |
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| | Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) | |
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| | (science fiction) home planet / (astronomy) parent star | |
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| | Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction writer | |
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| | legal fiction | |
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| | Lao Ai (-238 BC), man of Qin famous for his giant penis / in fiction, bogus eunuch and the consort of king Ying Zheng's mother lady Zhao | |
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| | science fiction novel | |
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| | romance novel / romantic fiction | |
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| | science fiction movie | |
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| | Guo Jingming (1983-), Chinese young-adult fiction writer and teen pop idol | |
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| | flash fiction | |
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| | tangerine flavor / yuri (genre of fiction featuring lesbian romantic or sexual relationships) | |
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| | flash fiction | |
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| | (slang) Mary Sue (character type in fiction) | |
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| | fantasy (fiction) | |
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| | lit. to open an inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction) / fig. to carry out a scam / to run a protection racket / daylight robbery | |
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| | fiction comes true / play-acting that turns into reality | |
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| | fan fiction | |
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| | imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill | |
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| | Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories | |
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| | tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction) | |
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| | story of Liu Yi, Tang fantasy fiction by Li Chaowei 李朝威, popular with dramatist of subsequent dynasties | |
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| | flash fiction | |
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| | xuanhuan, a fusion of Western and Eastern fantasy (subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction) | |
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| | techno-thriller (novel) / science fiction thriller | |
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| | (old) petty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about / novel in the vernacular / fiction writer; novelist | |
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| | Luo Maodeng (16th century), Ming author of operas and popular fiction | |
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| | fiction | |
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| | to jump into a well (to drown oneself, esp. of ladies in fiction) | |
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| | lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客｜侠客 in fiction) | |
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| | popular fiction / light literature | |
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| | lit. inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction) / fig. a scam / protection racket / daylight robbery | |
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