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  *月* | 月* | *月
moon / month / monthly / CL: 個|个, 輪|轮
HSK 1
the moon
HSK 2
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  *阴* | 阴* | *阴
overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia
HSK 2
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  *圆* | 圆* | *圆
circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
HSK 4
satellite / moon / CL: 顆|颗
HSK 5
the moon
HSK 5
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  *望* | 望* | *望
full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards
HSK 7-9
Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology) / one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft
HSK 7-9
to go down a hill / (of the sun or moon) to set
HSK 7-9
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  *蟾* | 蟾* | *蟾
toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking) / (mythology) the three-legged toad said to exist in the moon / (metonym) the moon
sun, moon and the five visible planets
bright moon / refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL: 輪|轮
moon
full moon
the bright moon
full moon
lit. lovely flowers, round moon (idiom); fig. everything is wonderful / perfect happiness / conjugal bliss
last quarter, aka third quarter (phase of the moon)
the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month
(literary) beautiful woman / (literary) lovely; graceful / (literary) the moon
crescent moon
Titan (race of deities in Greek mythology, moon of Saturn etc)
the Jade Hare (legendary rabbit said to live in the Moon) / the Moon
wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance / love affair / romance is in the air / dissipated life
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  *晕* | 晕* | *晕
dizzy / halo / ring around moon or sun
(of a baby) to reach one month of age / (fig.) to reach the one-month mark since the start, launch or implementation of sth / the full moon
the moon
ring around the moon / lunar halo
to fly to the moon
half-moon / fortnight
to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc / to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc / first quarter (phase of the moon)
the moon and the stars
waning moon
to go (up) to the moon
to admire the full moon
Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis, on the moon)
lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom) / fig. an unrealistic rosy view / viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles / also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花
phase of the moon
the sun, the moon, and the stars
to burst with joy (idiom) / to be over the moon / to be elated
lit. light breeze and clear moon (idiom) / period of peace and prosperity / noble and benevolent character
new moon / crescent
Palace in the Moon (in folk tales)
lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom) / fig. peaceful and clear night / (allusively) living a solitary and quiet life
extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
full moon
the Moon (esp. in Daoism)
lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure / to group around a revered leader / to revolve around sb
lit. countenance of a flower, face like the moon (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) beautiful
lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom) / fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world
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  *朓* | 朓* | *朓
(literary) the appearance of the moon in the west at the end of a lunar month
neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter)
lit. to scoop the moon out of the water (idiom) / fig. a hopeless endeavor
lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon) / fig. to succeed in the imperial examination
to climb a hill / to go to the mountains / (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons) / to pass away / (of the sun or moon) to rise
lunar eclipse / eclipse of the moon
the sun and moon like a shuttle (idiom); How time flies!
rising (sun, moon etc)
full moon / first full moon after birth (i.e. entering the second month)
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  *朏* | 朏* | *朏
(literary) (of the crescent moon) to begin to shine
the full moon / the fifteenth day of each lunar month
lit. many nights under a harsh moon / long years of oppression (idiom)
ring around the moon / lunar halo / solar halo
lit. a meteor catching up with the moon / swift action (idiom)
lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil / a contrasting character to a main hero
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  *朣* | 朣* | *朣
light from the rising moon
lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)
lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom) / fig. the passage of time
half-moon / the 7th and 8th and 22nd and 23rd of the lunar month
waxing and waning (of the moon)
moon rock
the seven planets of premodern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)
crescent moon / crescent shape
Sun Moon Lake in Nantou County, Taiwan
Moon Jae-in (1953-), Korean politician and human rights lawyer, president of Korea from 2017
third quarter moon, aka last quarter moon
to stroll beneath the moon
to wish for the stars and the moon / to have unreal expectations
first quarter moon
Ghosts' festival on 15th day of 7th moon
(ancient Chinese astrology) Yuebei, a heavenly body postulated to exist at the apogee of the Moon's orbit, hindering the Moon's progress
waxing crescent (moon)
moon buggy
the intersection of the Moon's orbit with the ecliptic in Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit rahu)
heavenly bodies (esp. the sun, moon or five visible planets)
Europa (moon of Jupiter), aka Jupiter II
Ganymede (moon of Jupiter), aka Jupiter III
Deimos (moon of Mars), aka Mars II
full moon / waxing gibbous moon
jade ice jug and autumn moon (idiom, from poem by Song writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡); fig. spotless white and pure / flawless person
new moon
Phobos (moon of Mars), aka Mars I
to land on the moon
Titan (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn VI
the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project
the new moon / the first day of the lunar month
spring tide (biggest tide, at new moon or full moon)
moon of Saturn
Io (moon of Jupiter), aka Jupiter I
Callisto (moon of Jupiter), aka Jupiter IV

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