| | pearl (CL: 顆|颗, 粒) / (fig.) teardrop; tear | HSK 5 |
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| | classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc | HSK 5 |
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| | pearls / jewels / precious stones | HSK 6 |
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| | the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong / Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇 | |
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| | bright moon / refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL: 輪|轮 | |
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| | Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi); adlay millet; Chinese pearl barley | |
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| | pearl / jewel (of great value) | |
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| | (literary) baroque pearl; irregular pearl | |
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| | pearl used in sacrifice | |
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| | jade or pearl necklace | |
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| | lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom) / fig. beloved person (esp. daughter) | |
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| | Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) | |
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| | joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row | |
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| | string of pearl and jade (idiom); ideal combination / perfect pair | |
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| | (literary) pearl; gem / (literary) (fig.) eloquent phrase; pearl of wisdom | |
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| | pendant of pearls on coronet | |
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| | lit. as round as pearls and as smooth as jade (idiom) / fig. elegant and polished (of singing or writing) | |
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| | pearl or jade earring | |
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| | to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom) | |
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| | mother-of-pearl | |
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| | a kind of jade / a kind of pearl | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to pass off fish eyes for pearls / to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom) | |
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| | 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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| | gems or pearls formerly put into the mouth of a corpse | |
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| | to cast pearls before swine (idiom) / not to get proper recognition for one's talents | |
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| | (pearl) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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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| | pearl | |
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| | luster (of pearls) | |
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| | brilliance of pearls | |
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| | lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom) / fig. birthing a son at an advanced age | |
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| | pearls or shells strung together | |
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| | lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom) / fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities | |
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| | fish-like person in Chinese folklore whose tears turn into pearls | |
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| | pearls and jades / jewels / clever remark / beautiful writing / gems of wisdom / genius / outstanding person | |
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| | pearl barley | |
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| | Pearl River Delta (PRD) | |
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| | Oriental Pearl Tower | |
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| | pearl of wisdom; quotable quote | |
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| | mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM) | |
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| | pearl milk tea / tapioca milk tea / bubble milk tea | |
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| | curtain of pearls / screen of beads | |
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| | pearl barley | |
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| | mother-of-pearl | |
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| | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate | |
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| | red pitaya / dragon fruit / dragon pearl fruit (genus Hylocereus) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | lit. to hold the pearl of wisdom (idiom) / fig. to be endowed with extraordinary intelligence | |
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| | abbr. for pearl milk tea 珍珠奶茶 | |
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| | lit. pearl flows, jade moves on (idiom); fig. the passage of time / water under the bridge | |
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| | to dive for pearls | |
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| | Oriental Pearl Television Tower | |
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| | Pan-Pearl River delta / The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta / South China | |
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| | the Pan-Pearl river delta (economic zone including the 5 provinces around Guangzhou and Hong Kong) | |
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| | Pearl of Great Price (Mormonism) | |
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| | Pearl River Delta | |
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| | Pearl River (Guangdong) | |
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| | fluent with words / words flowing like pearl beads | |
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| | pearl gray | |
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| | jade / precious stone / mother-of-pearl / nacre / precious / used a complementary honorific | |
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| | brilliance (pearls) | |
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| | pearl-oyster | |
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| | pearl oyster (genus Pinctada) | |
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