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pearl (CL:顆|颗,) / (fig.) teardrop; tear
HSK 5
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  *颗* | 颗* | *颗
classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
HSK 5
pearls / jewels / precious stones
HSK 6
the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong / Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇
bright moon / refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL: 輪|轮
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  *珠* | 珠* | *珠
bead / pearl / CL: , 顆|颗
pearl / bead / CL: , 顆|颗
Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi); adlay millet; Chinese pearl barley
pearl / jewel (of great value)
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  *玑* | 玑* | *玑
(literary) baroque pearl; irregular pearl
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  *玥* | 玥* | *玥
pearl used in sacrifice
jade or pearl necklace
lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom) / fig. beloved person (esp. daughter)
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)
joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
string of pearl and jade (idiom); ideal combination / perfect pair
(literary) pearl; gem / (literary) (fig.) eloquent phrase; pearl of wisdom
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  *璪* | 璪* | *璪
pendant of pearls on coronet
lit. as round as pearls and as smooth as jade (idiom) / fig. elegant and polished (of singing or writing)
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  *珥* | 珥* | *珥
pearl or jade earring
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
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  *珧* | 珧* | *珧
mother-of-pearl
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  *珹* | 珹* | *珹
a kind of jade / a kind of pearl
Lingqu, canal in Xing'an county 興安|兴安, Guangxi, built in 214 BC to link the Yangtze 長江|长江 to the Pearl River 珠江
to pass off fish eyes for pearls / to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom)
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  *Q* | Q* | *Q
cute (loanword) / (of food) having a pleasant chewiness (like mochi, tapioca pearls, taro balls etc – foods with a springy or gel-like mouthfeel) / (loanword) to cue sb
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  *琀* | 琀* | *琀
gems or pearls formerly put into the mouth of a corpse
to cast pearls before swine (idiom) / not to get proper recognition for one's talents
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  *璸* | 璸* | *璸
(pearl)
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation) / to see through to the nub
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  *玭* | 玭* | *玭
pearl
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  *皪* | 皪* | *皪
luster (of pearls)
brilliance of pearls
lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom) / fig. birthing a son at an advanced age
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  *賏* | 賏* | *賏
pearls or shells strung together
lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom) / fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities
fish-like person in Chinese folklore whose tears turn into pearls
pearls and jades / jewels / clever remark / beautiful writing / gems of wisdom / genius / outstanding person
pearl barley
Pearl River Delta (PRD)
Oriental Pearl Tower
pearl of wisdom; quotable quote
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
pearl milk tea / tapioca milk tea / bubble milk tea
curtain of pearls / screen of beads
pearl barley
mother-of-pearl
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate
red pitaya / dragon fruit / dragon pearl fruit (genus Hylocereus)
lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine
to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs)
lit. to hold the pearl of wisdom (idiom) / fig. to be endowed with extraordinary intelligence
abbr. for pearl milk tea 珍珠奶茶
lit. pearl flows, jade moves on (idiom); fig. the passage of time / water under the bridge
to dive for pearls
Oriental Pearl Television Tower
Pan-Pearl River delta / The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta / South China
the Pan-Pearl river delta (economic zone including the 5 provinces around Guangzhou and Hong Kong)
Pearl of Great Price (Mormonism)
Pearl River Delta
Pearl River (Guangdong)
fluent with words / words flowing like pearl beads
pearl gray
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  *瑶* | 瑶* | *瑶
jade / precious stone / mother-of-pearl / nacre / precious / used a complementary honorific
brilliance (pearls)
pearl-oyster
pearl oyster (genus Pinctada)


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