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  *灯* | 灯* | *灯
lamp / light / lantern / CL: 盞|盏
HSK 2
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
HSK 7-9
boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival
HSK 7-9
Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜 / sticky rice dumplings
to be decorated with lanterns and colored banners (idiom)
HSK 7-9
a lantern or torchlight procession (resembling a fiery dragon)
lantern
HSK 7-9
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
early evening when lanterns are first lit
jack-o'-lantern
ice lantern
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
to light a lamp / to raise a lantern
riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs)
Lantern Festival / night of 15th of first lunar month / see also 元宵
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / chaser lights / self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker
display of fireworks and lanterns
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
lantern slides
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
Chinese lantern plant / winter cherry / strawberry ground-cherry / Physalis alkekengi
dragon lantern
carnival during the Lantern Festival, with lantern displays and traditional folk performances such as stilt walking and lion dance
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
Chinese lantern plant (Physalis alkekengi); winter cherry; strawberry ground-cherry / creeping oxalis (Oxalis corniculata)
colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋
lantern / uncovered oil lamp
decorated lantern; lantern light
The Legend of the Red Lantern
barn lantern / kerosene lamp
festival entertainment (lion dance, dragon lantern etc)
Spring lantern riddles (guessing game at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节, at the end of Spring festival 春節|春节)
lantern fish


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