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| | texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up | HSK 6 |
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| | to carve wood | HSK 3 |
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| | slow-witted / blockhead / log (of wood, timber etc) / CL: 塊|块, 根 | HSK 3 |
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| | inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag | HSK 5 |
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| | (bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) | |
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| | wood | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dense wood | |
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| | wood charcoal / coal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 | |
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| | lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees | |
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| | to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering | |
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| | fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings) | |
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| | an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom) | |
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| | While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope. | |
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| | flat piece of wood / wood chip / CL: 塊|块, 片 | |
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| | lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved | |
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| | pine wood / deal / larch | |
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| | to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process | |
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| | sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner 旗 (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow) | |
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| | woods / grove / forest | |
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| | can't see the wood for the trees | |
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| | (idiom) to take to the woods to become an outlaw | |
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| | wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL: 朵 | |
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| | to drill wood to make fire | |
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| | lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless | |
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| | a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew | |
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| | methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit | |
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| | wood shavings | |
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| | wood turning / woodwork lathe | |
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| | sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine | |
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| | mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon) | |
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| | blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees | |
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| | sound of chopping wood, chess pieces hitting the board etc | |
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| | chopped wood / firewood | |
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| | (literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message | |
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| | Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer | |
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| | red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk | |
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| | multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees | |
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| | wood shavings / sawdust | |
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| | engraving knife; carving knife (for wood, stone etc) | |
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| | lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear | |
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| | shrubbery / low wood | |
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| | woods and ravines / tranquillity of trees and valleys | |
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| | bamboo and wood | |
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| | vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) | |
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| | (bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden | |
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| | Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii) | |
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| | blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees | |
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| | line / trace / mark / pattern / grain (of wood etc) | |
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| | numerous and close together / (of hair) luxuriant / (of woods) dense / (of gunfire) intense | |
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| | a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack | |
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| | rotten wood | |
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| | woods and marshes | |
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| | to chop wood / to chop down trees | |
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| | Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, location of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference | |
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| | woodcut; wood engraving | |
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| | wood jade (type of petrified wood) | |
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| | Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus); fu ling; tuckahoe | |
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| | incense wood | |
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| | wood-boring insect | |
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| | squat block (of stone, wood etc) / ottoman; pouf | |
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| | (bird species of China) wood warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) | |
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| | scraps of wood | |
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| | lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers | |
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| | wenge or wengue (type of wood) | |
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| | fork (of a tree) / tool made of forked wood | |
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| | Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer | |
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| | a hard wood | |
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| | lush growth (trees) / fishing using bundled wood (archaic) | |
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| | vascular cambium (layer of tissue responsible for growth inside wood) | |
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| | earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body | |
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| | jigsaw puzzle; wood block puzzle | |
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| | to smoke / to cure over a wood fire | |
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| | (bird species of China) common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) | |
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| | mixed (growth of wood) | |
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| | (photography, filmmaking) to set up the lighting; to illuminate a scene / to polish; to buff; to give luster to (a surface, esp. stone, wood, metal etc) | |
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| | knot (in wood) | |
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| | veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) | |
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| | lit. boat made of lily magnolia wood / poetic term for boat | |
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| | one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth) | |
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| | to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing wood and wind / ☴ / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast) | |
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| | to chop / to hack / to carve wood | |
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| | to chop / to carve wood | |
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| | dried up (wood) / dead tree | |
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| | veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc) | |
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| | (bird species of China) brown wood owl (Strix leptogrammica) | |
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| | sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood) | |
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| | to engrave (metal of wood) | |
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| | woven wood and bamboo utensil / classifier for threads and strings | |
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| | Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks | |
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| | (medicine) boil / furuncle / knot (in wood) | |
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| | horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt | |
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| | (bird species of China) Sichuan wood owl (Strix davidi) | |
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| | ancient vehicle made of wood and bamboo / CL: 輛|辆 | |
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| | insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin | |
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| | to take to the woods to become an outlaw / (dialect) to be born (Etymology: in former times, a bed of straw or grass was used as padding during childbirth) | |
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| | (bird species of China) ashy wood pigeon (Columba pulchricollis) | |
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| | "piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片 | |
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| | (Japanese kokuji) large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together / pr. kasugai | |
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