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


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