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| | (bound form) male / baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位 | HSK 1 |
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| | public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) | HSK 6 |
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| | a (large) bell (CL: 架) / clock (CL: 座) / amount of time; o'clock (CL: 點｜点, 分, 秒) (as in 三點鐘｜三点钟 "three o'clock" or "three hours" or 五分鐘｜五分钟 "five minutes" etc) | HSK 3 |
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| | marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位 / nobleman; high official | |
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| | five-star (hotel) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | five-starred red flag (PRC national flag) | |
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| | son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- | |
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| | five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored | |
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| | to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) | |
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| | Zhu Wen (852-912), military governor 節度使｜节度使 at the end of Tang, founder of Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923), also known as Emperor Taizu of Later Liang 後梁太祖｜后梁太祖 | |
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| | the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星 | |
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| | five continents / the whole world | |
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| | see 五常市 / the Permanent Five (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA) | |
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| | the five cardinal virtues in traditional Chinese ethics: benevolence 仁, justice 義｜义, propriety 禮｜礼, wisdom 智 and honor 信 / alternative term for 五倫｜五伦, the five cardinal relationships / alternative term for 五行, the five elements | |
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| | infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms) | |
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| | five-pointed star; pentagram | |
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| | Wuliangye liquor / Five Grain liquor | |
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| | five-pointed star; pentagram | |
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| | first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old) | |
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| | the five fingers of one's hand | |
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| | five crops, e.g. millet 粟, soybean 豆, sesame 麻, barley 麥｜麦, rice 稻 or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley | |
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| | five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 | |
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| | metal hardware (nuts and bolts) / the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron, tin 金銀銅鐵錫｜金银铜铁锡 | |
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| | Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China | |
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| | five-stroke code, Chinese character input method | |
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| | five rings / pentacyclic (chemistry) | |
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| | Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山｜华山 in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山｜恒山 in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan | |
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| | the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经, the Book of History 書經｜书经, the Classic of Rites 禮記｜礼记, the Book of Changes 易經｜易经, and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 | |
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| | Wang Yongmin (1943-), inventor of the five stroke input method 五筆輸入法｜五笔输入法 | |
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| | several / three or five | |
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| | lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty | |
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| | poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line | |
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| | bottom bracket shell (in a bicycle frame) / (Buddhism) the five supernatural powers (abbr. for 五神通) | |
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| | sun, moon and the five visible planets | |
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| | to wait / to inquire after / to watch / season / climate / (old) period of five days | |
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| | five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) / facial features | |
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| | five degrees / fifth (basic musical interval, doh to soh) | |
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| | five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音｜齿音, 唇音 | |
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| | Duke Mu of Qin, the first substantial king of Qin (ruled 659-621 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸 | |
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| | Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經｜五经 | |
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| | sense organs / the five senses | |
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| | the national emblem of the PRC (a red circle containing the five stars of the PRC flag over Tiananmen 天安門｜天安门) | |
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| | five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮｜宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 | |
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| | five-spice powder | |
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| | another name for Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽｜五岳 / Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls | |
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| | Mt Heng 恆山｜恒山 in Shanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽｜五岳 | |
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| | abbr. of 五筆字型｜五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽｜五岳 | |
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| | five viscera and six bowels (TCM) | |
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| | employment benefits package mandated by labor laws in China, consisting of five insurances (pension, medical, unemployment, work injury, and maternity) and a housing fund | |
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| | five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty) | |
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| | the five directions 五方 east, south, west, north and middle | |
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| | Li Yu (c. 937-978), given name of the final ruler of Tang of the Five Southern dynasties Li Houzhu 李後主｜李后主, a renowned poet | |
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| | Wuzuquan - "Five Ancestors" - Martial Art | |
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| | lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year) | |
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| | national general congress / Communist party national congress, in recent times every five years | |
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| | five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1] | |
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| | the five regions: the east, south, west, north and center / all parts / China and the lands beyond its frontiers | |
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| | Great Lakes / the five north American Great Lakes | |
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| | fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old) | |
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| | the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) | |
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| | Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口) | |
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| | five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang | |
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| | first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old) | |
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| | red star / five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat / hot film star | |
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| | Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽｜五岳 | |
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| | Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439) | |
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| | the five yuan (administrative branches of government) of the Republic of China under Sun Yat-sen's constitution: 行政院 Executive Yuan, 立法院 Legislative Yuan, 司法院 Judicial Yuan, 考試院｜考试院 Examination Yuan, 監察院｜监察院 Control Yuan | |
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| | fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old) | |
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| | Mt Tai in Shandong, eastern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽｜五岳 | |
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| | father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 | |
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| | the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼｜前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼｜后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼｜北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼｜南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼｜西凉 (400-421) | |
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| | Sun Yat-sen's Five-power constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan / The five courts or 院 are 行政院 Executive yuan, 立法院 Legislative yuan, 司法院 Judicial yuan, 考試院｜考试院 Examination yuan, 監察院｜监察院 Control yuan | |
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| | Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper (lit. "five-pace snake" – supposedly, a person bitten by it can only walk five steps before succumbing to the venom) | |
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| | Nanyue district of Hengyang city 衡陽市｜衡阳市, Hunan / Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽｜五岳 | |
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| | pentose (CH2O)5, monosaccharide with five carbon atoms, such as ribose 核糖 | |
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| | (Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and coriander | |
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| | south of the five ranges / old term for south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi | |
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| | to clap one's hands / to clap each other's hands / high five | |
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| | cabinet meeting in 51 BC that established the five classics of Confucianism 五經｜五经 as state canon | |
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| | five-string lute / Taiwan pr. [zhu2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Mt Hua 華山｜华山 in Shaanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽｜五岳 | |
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| | same as 舊唐書｜旧唐书, History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫｜刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉｜后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls | |
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| | the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), namely: Duke Huan of Qi 齊桓公｜齐桓公, Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公｜晋文公, King Zhuang of Chu 楚莊王｜楚庄王, and alternatively Duke Xiang of Song 宋襄公 and Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公 or King Helu of Wu 吳王闔閭｜吴王阖闾 and King Gou Jian of Yue 越王勾踐｜越王勾践 | |
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| | the eye is bewildered by five colors (idiom); a dazzling riot of colors | |
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| | five continents / the world | |
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| | three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義｜义, propriety 禮｜礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信) | |
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| | Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China | |
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| | the five flavors, namely: sweet 甜, sour 酸, bitter 苦, spicy hot 辣, salty 鹹｜咸 / all kinds of flavors | |
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| | the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺｜大庾岭, Dupang 都龐嶺｜都庞岭, Qitian 騎田嶺｜骑田岭, Mengzhu 萌渚嶺｜萌渚岭 and Yuecheng 越城嶺｜越城岭 | |
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| | five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / cf four horsemen of the apocalypse | |
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| | Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽｜关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛｜张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲｜赵云, Ma Chao 馬超｜马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠｜黄忠 | |
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| | heavenly bodies (esp. the sun, moon or five visible planets) | |
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| | joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row | |
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| | Wang code, same as 五筆字型｜五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | a complete gamut of all five flavors (idiom); every flavor under the sun | |
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| | the Five Aggregates (from Sanskrit "skandha") (Buddhism) | |
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