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| | (coll.) a star; the stars in the sky | HSK 2 |
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| | cloudy day; overcast sky | HSK 2 |
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| | the sky; the heavens | HSK 2 |
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| | clear sky / sunny day | HSK 2 |
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| | empty / air / sky / in vain | HSK 3 |
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| | sky | HSK 3 |
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| | in the sky / in the air | HSK 5 |
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| | blue sky | HSK 6 |
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| | the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace / (Tw) topless | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head | HSK 7-9 |
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| | half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk | HSK 7-9 |
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| | gargantuan / as big as the sky / enormous | |
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| | rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset | |
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| | clear sky / fig. high official position / noble | |
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| | lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive | |
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| | vault / dome / the sky | |
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| | Heaven; Providence; God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die; to pass away / the previous day (or days) | |
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| | Dinggyê county, Tibetan: Gding skyes rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet | |
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| | starry sky; the star-studded heavens | |
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| | sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head | |
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| | extremely expensive / sky-high price | |
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| | vast and limitless / the vast sky | |
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| | sky clearing up | |
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| | to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne | |
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| | reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly | |
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| | four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武 | |
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| | (literary) the vast sky / (finance) eventual downturn / poor prospects in the long term | |
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| | White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia | |
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| | like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style | |
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| | whole sky | |
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| | to soar; to wheel about in the sky | |
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| | to fall down / to decay / to fall from the sky / to die | |
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| | to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky | |
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| | to rise to the sky / to lift off / to levitate / liftoff | |
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| | Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky) | |
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| | wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun | |
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| | great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos | |
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| | like the clouds in the sky (i.e. numerous) | |
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| | (of skies or one's mood) gloomy | |
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| | (the) skies | |
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| | (of a tree etc) to reach up to the sky | |
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| | be high up in the sky | |
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| | azure; sky-blue | |
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| | Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky | |
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| | skyscraping / towering into the sky | |
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| | (ancient Chinese astronomy) Zhuque, the Vermilion Bird (the southern quadrant of the sky) / (Daoism) the guardian deity of the south | |
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| | many stars / a vast sky full of stars | |
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| | sky clears after rain / new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom) / every cloud has a silver lining (idiom) / see also 雨過天青|雨过天青 | |
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| | misty / cloudy sky / dark / obscure | |
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| | night sky | |
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| | a clear and boundless sky | |
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| | to face upwards / to look up to the sky | |
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| | center of the sky / will of heaven / will of the Gods / the monarch's will | |
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| | the eagle soars in the sky (citation from Mao Zedong) | |
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| | clear sky | |
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| | sky blue | |
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| | clear sky / blue sky / upright and honorable (official) | |
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| | lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom) / fig. a bolt from the blue | |
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| | water and sky merge in one color (idiom) | |
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| | the blue sky | |
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| | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance | |
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| | clear and cloudless sky | |
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| | mist / haze / cloudy sky | |
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| | lit. like the man of 杞 who feared the sky would fall (idiom) / fig. to entertain groundless fears | |
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| | overhead / up in the sky | |
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| | (idiom) (of enemies) cannot live under the same sky; absolutely irreconcilable | |
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| | lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom); ignorant and narrow-minded | |
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| | starlit night / by night; under the night sky; through the night | |
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| | the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world | |
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| | lit. to fill the whole sky / everywhere / as far as the eye can see | |
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| | color of the sky / time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky / weather | |
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| | Tengri, the sky god in Mongolic and Turkic mythology | |
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| | freezing weather / frosty sky | |
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| | the sky / the heavens / (fig.) imperial court | |
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| | the sky / the firmament / the vault of heaven | |
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| | lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses | |
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| | rising straight up in a clear sky (idiom); rapid promotion to a high post / meteoric career | |
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| | (idiom) to fall from the sky / (idiom) (fig.) to appear unexpectedly; to drop into one's lap | |
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| | filling the entire sky / covering everything (of fog, crime, disaster etc) | |
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| | heaven / the distant sky | |
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| | scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place | |
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| | four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back | |
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| | to ask for sky-high prices | |
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| | a dome / a vault / the sky | |
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| | (bound form) to fall from the sky / (literary) to perish (variant of 殞|殒) | |
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| | lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times | |
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| | filling the atmosphere / covering the sky | |
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| | sky burial (Tibetan funeral practice) | |
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| | lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom) / fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders | |
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| | lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom) / fig. to be at the end of one's rope / to be trapped in a hopeless situation | |
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| | (usu. of the sky) azure; bright blue | |
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| | lit. wind and rain darken the sky (idiom); fig. the situation looks grim | |
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| | (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky) / (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky) | |
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| | lit. viewing the sky with a basin on one's head; it is hard to get a clear view of the sky while carrying a platter on one's head / fig. it is hard to get on in one's career while encumbered by family obligations / one can't perform a major task while bothered by other duties | |
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| | Vanessa-Mae (1978-), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier | |
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| | sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals) | |
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| | lit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land (idiom) / fig. everywhere; as far as the eye can see | |
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| | lit. whole sky, a multitude of stars | |
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| | sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals) | |
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