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  *天* | 天* | *天
day / sky / heaven
HSK 1
(coll.) a star; the stars in the sky
HSK 2
cloudy day; overcast sky
HSK 2
the sky; the heavens
HSK 2
clear sky / sunny day
HSK 2
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  *空* | 空* | *空
empty / air / sky / in vain
HSK 3
sky
HSK 3
in the sky / in the air
HSK 5
blue sky
HSK 6
the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace / (Tw) topless
HSK 7-9
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
HSK 7-9
half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk
HSK 7-9
gargantuan / as big as the sky / enormous
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  *霞* | 霞* | *霞
rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
clear sky / fig. high official position / noble
lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
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  *穹* | 穹* | *穹
vault / dome / the sky
Heaven; Providence; God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die; to pass away / the previous day (or days)
Dinggyê county, Tibetan: Gding skyes rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
starry sky; the star-studded heavens
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
extremely expensive / sky-high price
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  *昊* | 昊* | *昊
vast and limitless / the vast sky
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  *霁* | 霁* | *霁
sky clearing up
to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne
reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly
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
(literary) the vast sky / (finance) eventual downturn / poor prospects in the long term
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia
like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style
whole sky
to soar; to wheel about in the sky
to fall down / to decay / to fall from the sky / to die
to drain out; to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky
to rise to the sky / to lift off / to levitate / liftoff
Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky)
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
like the clouds in the sky (i.e. numerous)
(of skies or one's mood) gloomy
(the) skies
(of a tree etc) to reach up to the sky
be high up in the sky
azure; sky-blue
Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky
skyscraping / towering into the sky
(ancient Chinese astronomy) Zhuque, the Vermilion Bird (the southern quadrant of the sky) / (Daoism) the guardian deity of the south
many stars / a vast sky full of stars
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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  *叆* | 叆* | *叆
misty / cloudy sky / dark / obscure
night sky
a clear and boundless sky
to face upwards / to look up to the sky
center of the sky / will of heaven / will of the Gods / the monarch's will
the eagle soars in the sky (citation from Mao Zedong)
clear sky
sky blue
clear sky / blue sky / upright and honorable (official)
lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom) / fig. a bolt from the blue
water and sky merge in one color (idiom)
the blue sky
lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance
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  *奣* | 奣* | *奣
clear and cloudless sky
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  *霭* | 霭* | *霭
mist / haze / cloudy sky
lit. like the man of who feared the sky would fall (idiom) / fig. to entertain groundless fears
overhead / up in the sky
(idiom) (of enemies) cannot live under the same sky; absolutely irreconcilable
lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom); ignorant and narrow-minded
starlit night / by night; under the night sky; through the night
the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world
lit. to fill the whole sky / everywhere / as far as the eye can see
color of the sky / time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky / weather
Tengri, the sky god in Mongolic and Turkic mythology
freezing weather / frosty sky
the sky / the heavens / (fig.) imperial court
the sky / the firmament / the vault of heaven
lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses
rising straight up in a clear sky (idiom); rapid promotion to a high post / meteoric career
(idiom) to fall from the sky / (idiom) (fig.) to appear unexpectedly; to drop into one's lap
filling the entire sky / covering everything (of fog, crime, disaster etc)
heaven / the distant sky
scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place
four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back
to ask for sky-high prices
a dome / a vault / the sky
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  *陨* | 陨* | *陨
(bound form) to fall from the sky / (literary) to perish (variant of 殞|殒)
lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times
filling the atmosphere / covering the sky
sky burial (Tibetan funeral practice)
lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom) / fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
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
(usu. of the sky) azure; bright blue
lit. wind and rain darken the sky (idiom); fig. the situation looks grim
(of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky) / (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky)
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
Vanessa-Mae (1978-), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
lit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land (idiom) / fig. everywhere; as far as the eye can see
lit. whole sky, a multitude of stars
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)

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