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person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
HSK 5
story line / plot / drama (genre)
HSK 7-9
(botany) lily / (ACG) (slang) yuri (genre depicting romantic or intimate relationships between women)
HSK 7-9
country music (country & western music genre)
genre of writing / literary form / style / literary recreation and sporting activities
martial arts chivalry (Chinese literary, theatrical and cinema genre) / knight-errant
police and criminals / (genre of fiction) crime
Bhangra, Indian music (music genre)
hip-hop (music genre) (loanword)
genre of song-and-dance duet popular in Inner Mongolia
blue-and-green landscape (genre of landscape painting originating in the Tang dynasty, in which blues and greens predominate)
house (music genre) (loanword)
old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗
xiaodiao, a Chinese folk song genre / (music) minor key
tangerine flavor / yuri (genre of fiction featuring lesbian romantic or sexual relationships)
drum and bass (music genre)
genre of song-and-dance duet popular in northeast China
(movie genre) espionage thriller (typically involving Chinese agents opposing the Japanese in the 1930s and 40s)
mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience
alternate history; counterfactual history (genre of fiction)
genre / style / form of writing
(slang) boys' love, aka BL (genre of homoerotic online literature)
spoofing culture (Web-based genre in PRC acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
poetic form or genre
shanshui poetry, genre of Classical Chinese poetry
pure love / BL, aka boys' love (genre of male homoerotic fictional media)
enka (Japanese genre of sentimental ballads)
tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction)
music style; music genre
history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian
genre of folk song with accompaniment of bamboo clappers
tributary (stream) / (fig.) school (of thought) / genre / style
lolicon or rorikon (Japanese loanword) / manga or anime genre depicting young girls in an erotic manner
silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century
shoegaze (music genre)
post-rock (music genre)
free jazz (music genre)
talkative / to blather / to shoot one's mouth off / rap (genre of music)
family history (as a literary genre)
shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz
spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
post-rock (music genre)
a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line
random thoughts (a literary genre)
to blend heterogeneous elements (from different sources, systems, styles or genres) / (linguistics) to combine incompatible sentence patterns, resulting in awkward or unclear expression
a genre of poetry, developed in the Tang Dynasty, characterized by its strict form
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)
electronic music (genre)
(of characters) form; style (cursive, printed etc) / (of a literary work) form; style; genre
swing (genre of jazz music)
shotacon (Japanese loanword) / manga or anime genre depicting young boys in an erotic manner
trance (music genre)
notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
first-person shooter (video game genre)
horror (genre) / to tremble in fear
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to resign / to dismiss / to decline / (literary) to take leave / (archaic poetic genre) ballad / variant of 詞|词
HSK 7-9


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