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| | Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) | HSK 2 |
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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials) | HSK 5 |
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| | spring (small stream) / mouth of a spring / coin (archaic) | HSK 5 |
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| | the whole year must be planned for in the spring (idiom) / early planning is the key to success | |
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| | spring (season) / gay / joyful / youthful / love / lust / life | |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | hot spring | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) amiable as a spring breeze | |
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| | (in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom) | |
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| | Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence | |
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| | lit. like stepping on a tiger's tail or spring ice (idiom) / fig. extremely dangerous situation | |
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| | thawing and opening up of frozen river in spring | |
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| | boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste | |
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| | steamed roll / spring roll | |
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| | easterly wind / spring breeze / (fig.) revolutionary momentum; favorable circumstances | |
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| | Nongfu Spring, Chinese bottled water and beverage company | |
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| | inner-spring mattress (loanword from US mattress brand "Simmons") | |
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| | surname Chu / abbr. for Hubei 湖北省 and Hunan 湖南省 provinces together / Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC) | |
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| | the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods | |
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| | Chunfen or Spring Equinox, 4th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 21st March-4th April | |
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| | to rise abruptly (to a towering position) / to tower over / to spring up / to emerge suddenly / the emergence (e.g. of a power) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | New Year (Spring Festival) picture | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Bole (a man who lived during Spring and Autumn Period, reputed to be able to spot a good horse) / a person who is good at spotting talent | |
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| | Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side) | |
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| | the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家|农家 | |
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| | flick knife / switchblade / spring-loaded knife | |
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| | colors of spring / spring scenery | |
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| | East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer) | |
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| | Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) / Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC) | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | elasticity / elastic force / spring / rebound / bounce | |
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| | four seasons like spring / favorable climate throughout the year | |
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| | to get up on hind legs (esp. of horse) / to stand / to spring up | |
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| | to rise / to spring up / to burgeon / to be aroused / to come into vogue | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to emerge in large numbers / to spring up / to emerge prominently | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing / to dawdle; to stall / (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath | |
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| | the three spring months | |
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| | the beginning of Spring / the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day | |
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| | beginning of spring / thoughts of love | |
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| | spring tide | |
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| | spring breeze / (fig.) pleasant demeanor; serene atmosphere; favorable conditions / (literary) romantic encounter; an affair | |
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| | arising involuntarily (idiom); spontaneous / to spring up unbidden (of emotion) | |
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| | The Artificer's Record, a technology treaty compiled towards the end of the Spring and Autumn period | |
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| | fountainhead / well-spring / water source / fig. origin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the four seasons / spring, summer, autumn and winter | |
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| | to plow a field in the spring | |
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| | beginning of spring / the lunar New Year | |
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| | the four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | |
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| | spring rain / gift from above | |
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| | lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉 (idiom) / fig. to die / to meet one's end | |
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| | spring tide / (fig.) momentous social change | |
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| | spring pancake, a Chinese flatbread wrap | |
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| | to rise high; to spring up | |
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| | to wind the spring up tight / (fig.) to gear up; to ready oneself | |
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| | lit. spring wind and rain (idiom); fig. the long-term influence of a solid education | |
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| | Wing Chun / same as 詠春拳|咏春拳 / Yongchun - "Singing Spring Fist" (Chinese martial art) | |
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| | dangers spring up all around (idiom); surrounded by perils | |
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| | spring chill in the air / cold | |
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| | lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth / many new things emerge in rapid succession | |
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| | Six Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, Book of History 尚書|尚书, Book of Rites 儀禮|仪礼, the lost Book of Music 樂經|乐经, Book of Changes 易經|易经, Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 | |
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| | sow in spring, develop in summer, harvest in autumn, store in winter (idiom) | |
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| | lit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom); gratitude for blessings and their well-spring / Don't forget where your happiness come from. / Be grateful for all your blessings! | |
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| | to emerge; to pop up; to spring forth; to appear from nowhere | |
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| | lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom) / fig. to get a new lease on life / to be revived / (of a difficult situation) to suddenly improve | |
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| | Yongchun - "Singing Spring Fist" (Chinese martial art) | |
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| | scenes of springtime / the radiance of spring / (fig.) a sight of sth sexy or erotic / an indication of a love affair | |
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| | Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | lit. spring sunshine / fig. parental (often maternal) love | |
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| | lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom) / fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows | |
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| | Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾 | |
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| | banquet to celebrate the Spring Festival / wine made in spring and kept until winter, or made in winter and kept until spring | |
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| | the Peach Blossom Spring, a hidden land of peace and prosperity / utopia | |
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| | spring tide (biggest tide, at new moon or full moon) | |
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| | Guan Zhong (-645 BC), famous politician of Qi 齊國|齐国 of Spring and Autumn period / known as Guangzi 管子 | |
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| | the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC) | |
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| | Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋, including Mr Gongyang's annals 公羊傳|公羊传, Mr Guliang's annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传 and Mr Zuo's annals or Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传 | |
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| | (martial arts, gymnastics) to kip up (spring upright from supine without hands) / (fig.) to jolt upright | |
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| | lit. green willows and red flowers (idiom) / fig. all the colors of spring | |
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| | onsen tamago; hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water) | |
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| | Lichun or Beginning of Spring, 1st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 4th-18th February | |
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| | River on a spring night, long yuefu poem by 張若虛|张若虚 | |
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| | the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), namely: Duke Huan of Qi 齊桓公|齐桓公, Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公, King Zhuang of Chu 楚莊王|楚庄王, and alternatively Duke Xiang of Song 宋襄公 and Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公 or King Helu of Wu 吳王闔閭|吴王阖闾 and King Gou Jian of Yue 越王勾踐|越王勾践 | |
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| | (idiom) to blossom everywhere; to spring up all over the place; to flourish on a large scale | |
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| | a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) / overlord / hegemon | |
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| | the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods / Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC) | |
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