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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books | |
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| | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書｜四书 in Confucianism | |
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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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| | 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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| | 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 | |
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| | twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions) | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動｜四清运动 | |
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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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| | 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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| | lit. 之, 乎, 者 and 也 (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom) / fig. archaic expressions | |
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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 great Chinese inventions: paper, printing, magnetic compass and gunpowder | |
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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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| | (idiom) addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: the four basic operations of arithmetic | |
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| | (slang) swearword / four-letter word | |
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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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| | Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (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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| | 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 | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | Ma Lianliang (1901-1966), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生｜四大须生 | |
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| | Cao Buxing or Ts'ao Pu-hsing (active c. 210-250), famous semilegendary painter, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家 | |
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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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| | poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line | |
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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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| | 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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| | the top four | |
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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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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | the four basic operations of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) | |
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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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| | four seasons like spring / favorable climate throughout the year | |
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| | the four limbs of the body | |
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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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| | Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism | |
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| | lit. the four elements are vanity (idiom) / this world is an illusion | |
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| | Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature | |
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| | National Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1959 | |
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| | the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施, Wang Zhaojun 王昭君, Diaochan 貂蟬｜貂蝉 and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環｜杨玉环 | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | in groups of three or four (idiom) | |
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| | fourth / four times / quartic | |
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| | the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty | |
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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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| | lit. Zhang Three and Li Four (idiom) / (fig.) any Tom, Dick or Harry | |
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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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| | 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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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature / also written 水滸傳｜水浒传 | |
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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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| | Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism, namely: Mt Wutai 五臺山｜五台山 in Shanxi, Mt Emei 峨眉山 in Sichuan, Mt Jiuhua 九華山｜九华山 in Anhui, Mt Potala 普陀山 in Zhejiang | |
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| | Mount Jiuhua in Anhui, scenic tourist site, and one of the four famous Buddhist mountains | |
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| | (TCM) the four methods of diagnosis, namely 望診｜望诊 (observation), 聞診｜闻诊 (auscultation and olfaction), 問診｜问诊 (interrogation), 切診｜切诊 (pulse feeling and palpation) | |
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| | the four seasons / spring, summer, autumn and winter | |
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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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| | 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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| | 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 Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書｜四书 | |
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| | National Intercity Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1988 | |
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| | the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅｜灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 / also called 四諦｜四谛 | |
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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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| | the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯｜杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰｜卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王｜骆宾王 | |
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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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| | modernization of industry, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations | |
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| | the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war | |
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| | four great basin depressions of China, namely: Tarim 塔里木盆地 in south Xinjiang, Jungar 準葛爾盆地｜准葛尔盆地 and Tsaidam or Qaidam 柴達木盆地｜柴达木盆地 in north Xinjiang Sichuan 四川盆地 | |
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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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| | Zhang Sengyou (active c. 490-540), one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家 | |
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| | four corner code (input method for Chinese characters) | |
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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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| | 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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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | modernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations | |
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| | the four great caves, namely: Longmen Grottoes 龍門石窟｜龙门石窟 at Luoyang, Henan, Yungang Caves 雲岡石窟｜云冈石窟 at Datong, Shanxi, Mogao Caves 莫高窟 at Dunhuang, Gansu, and Mt Maiji Caves 麥積山石窟｜麦积山石窟 at Tianshui, Gansu | |
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| | (idiom) "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | partner (in four person game) / family of proposed marriage partner | |
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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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| | Xuantu commandery (108 BC-c. 300 AD), one of four Han dynasty commanderies in north Korea | |
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| | your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (four-character version of 口嫌體正直｜口嫌体正直) | |
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| | set of (usually four) hanging scrolls | |
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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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| | Four Comprehensives (political guidelines announced by President Xi Jinping, 2015) | |
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| | the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | Virupaksa (on of the Four Heavenly Kings) | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) | |
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| | lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war | |
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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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| | four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍｜青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武 | |
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| | Kaempferia galanga, one of four plants known as galangal | |
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| | five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / cf four horsemen of the apocalypse | |
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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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| | tetrose (CH2O)4, monosaccharide with four carbon atoms | |
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