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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書｜四书 in Confucianism | |
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| | Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical | |
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| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中｜罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備｜刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337–370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409–436) / surname Yan | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | (Tw) (abbr. for 教育與娛樂｜教育与娱乐) education and entertainment, the 5th and 6th aspects of life beyond the four basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and transportation 食衣住行 / (sometimes used to signify edutainment or just recreation) | |
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| | (idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party | |
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| | Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍｜东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍｜东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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| | four (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / unrestrained / wanton / (literary) shop | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor / see 禮義廉恥｜礼义廉耻 / the four directions / the four limbs (Chinese medicine) / four-dimensional | |
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| | (archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books | |
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| | four-square box in which one practices writing a Chinese character | |
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| | twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions) | |
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| | (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition | |
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| | Wang Hongwen (1935-1992), one of the Gang of Four | |
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| | (TCM) interrogation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | Sichuan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡｜苏绣, 湘繡｜湘绣 and 粵繡｜粤绣) | |
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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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| | the five emphases, four beauties and three loves (PRC policy introduced in 1981, including emphasis on manners, beauty of language and love of socialism) | |
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| | ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute | |
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| | abbr. for 四個現代化｜四个现代化, Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations | |
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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | the top four | |
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| | Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four | |
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| | division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands | |
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| | in groups of three or four (idiom) | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動｜四清运动 | |
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| | Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學｜大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語｜论语, and Mencius 孟子 | |
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| | four of a kind / quads (poker) | |
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| | divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 | |
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| | (idiom) addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: the four basic operations of arithmetic | |
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| | the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書｜四书 | |
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| | "the four pests", i.e. rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows / see also 打麻雀運動｜打麻雀运动 | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐｜勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu | |
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| | ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo | |
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| | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋｜张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution | |
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| | Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆｜笔, 墨, 紙｜纸 and 硯｜砚 / the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom) | |
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| | Hunan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡｜苏绣, 粵繡｜粤绣 and 蜀繡｜蜀绣) | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | the four book depositories, namely: classics 經｜经, history 史, philosophy 子, belles-lettres 集 | |
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| | to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own | |
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| | Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan) | |
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| | the four limbs of the body | |
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| | four grandparents, two parents and an only child | |
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| | (four-footed) animal / beast | |
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| | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍 | |
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| | four generations under one roof (idiom) | |
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| | to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) | |
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| | (TCM) observation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese | |
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| | vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine | |
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| | never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite | |
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| | lit. 之, 乎, 者 and 也 (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom) / fig. archaic expressions | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | one's four limbs / two arms and two legs | |
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| | (TCM) pulse feeling and palpitation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture | |
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| | lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail | |
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| | set of (usually four) hanging scrolls | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | "Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩｜吴承恩, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, also known as "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey" | |
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| | partner (in four person game) / family of proposed marriage partner | |
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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | lit. Zhang Three and Li Four (idiom) / (fig.) any Tom, Dick or Harry | |
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| | (TCM) auscultation and smelling, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | (slang) swearword / four-letter word | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) | |
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| | Mount Jiuhua in Anhui, scenic tourist site, and one of the four famous Buddhist mountains | |
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| | the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢｜红楼梦, Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊 | |
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| | Luo Binwang (640-684), one of Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑｜初唐四杰 | |
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| | five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / cf four horsemen of the apocalypse | |
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| | Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism | |
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| | Wang Bo (650-676), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑｜初唐四杰 | |
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| | four-wheel drive | |
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| | Wang Zhaojun (52-19 BC), famous beauty at the court of Han emperor Yuan 漢元帝｜汉元帝, one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女 | |
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| | the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲｜平声, rising tone 上聲｜上声, departing tone 去聲｜去声 and entering tone 入聲｜入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin | |
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| | the four great Chinese inventions: paper, printing, magnetic compass and gunpowder | |
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| | Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇｜杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家 | |
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| | Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑｜初唐四杰 | |
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| | Jöchi (c. 1182–1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan's four sons | |
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| | the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story | |
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| | Itō Hirobumi (1841–1909), Japan's first prime minister (served four terms), key figure in Japan's colonial expansion into Korea | |
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| | Tang Bohu 唐伯虎 or Tang Yin (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 | |
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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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| | Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | Yao Wenyuan (1931-2005), one of the Gang of Four | |
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| | four-leaf clover | |
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| | four sides | |
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