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| | three-dimensional / 3D | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to raise one and infer three / to deduce many things from one case (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one after another (idiom) / in quick succession | HSK 7-9 |
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| | over and over again (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (slang) threesome | |
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| | surname San | |
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| | Sanya, prefecture-level city, Hainan | |
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| | see 3C[san1 C] | |
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| | Samadhi (Buddhist term) | |
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| | Sanming, prefecture-level city in Fujian | |
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| | Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗 in 658 | |
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| | Sanyuan County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳, Shaanxi | |
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| | thirteen / 13 | |
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| | third year in junior middle school | |
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| | Holy Trinity / trinity | |
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| | the Three Precious Treasures of Buddhism, namely: the Buddha 佛, the Dharma 法 (his teaching), and the Sangha 僧 (his monastic order) | |
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| | third-year university student | |
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| | (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force | |
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| | Sanshui, a district of Foshan 佛山市, Guangdong | |
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| | March / third month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | Tripitaka, the three main types of text that collectively constitute the Buddhist canon of scriptures: sutras, commandments and commentaries | |
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| | Mitsubishi | |
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| | Sanmen county in Taizhou 台州, Zhejiang | |
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| | in the depth of the night; very late at night | |
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| | the Third (of numbered kings) | |
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| | lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 to his cause by visiting him three times) / fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb | |
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| | 3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination / (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三級甲等|三级甲等) | |
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| | third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1] | |
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| | pseudoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng), hemostatic herb | |
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| | Santai county in Mianyang 綿陽|绵阳, north Sichuan | |
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| | Samsung (South Korean electronics company) / Sanxing or Sanhsing Township in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan | |
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| | three major stars of the Three Stars 參宿|参宿 Chinese constellation / the belt of Orion / three spirits 福, 祿|禄, and 壽|寿 associated with the Three Stars 參宿|参宿 Chinese constellation | |
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| | T-joint / T-piece / T-pipe / three links | |
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| | (Wu dialect) bum / wretched-looking tramp who lives by begging or stealing | |
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| | Sansui county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州, Guizhou | |
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| | International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid | |
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| | three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation | |
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| | lit. to have three heads and six arms (idiom) / fig. to possess remarkable abilities / a being of formidable powers | |
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| | the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August | |
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| | delta (geography) | |
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| | Wednesday | |
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| | several / three or five | |
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| | third-rate / inferior | |
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| | ferric chloride FeCl3 | |
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| | Suntory, Japanese beverage company | |
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| | lacking three key attributes (or at least one of them) | |
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| | triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China | |
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| | clover / trefoil | |
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| | the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom) / (courteous language) it's my good fortune... | |
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| | BWH, abbr. for a woman's three measurements, namely: bust 胸圍|胸围, waist 腰圍|腰围 and hip 臀圍|臀围 | |
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| | "three-guarantee service": repair, exchange, refund | |
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| | three immortal souls and seven mortal forms in Daoism, contrasting the spiritual and carnal side of man | |
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| | Sanyō, Japanese electronics company | |
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| | Sanyuan County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳, Shaanxi | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | Three Gorges on the Chang Jiang or Yangtze, namely: Qutang Gorge 瞿塘峽|瞿塘峡, Wuxia Gorge 巫峽|巫峡 and Xiling Gorge 西陵峽|西陵峡 / Sanxia or Sanhsia town in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | the three legendary sovereigns of the third millennium BC: Suiren 燧人, Fuxi 伏羲 and Shennong 神農|神农, or 天皇, 地皇 and 人皇 | |
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| | the Ming tombs (mausoleum park of the Ming emperors in Changping district of Beijing) | |
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| | triangular relationship; (esp.) a love triangle | |
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| | (idiom) reluctant to speak about it / tight-lipped | |
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| | in twos and threes | |
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| | thirty / 30 | |
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| | name of "water" radical 氵 in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85) | |
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| | the Three Doctrines (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) | |
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| | (derog.) an Indian | |
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| | three types of waste product, namely: waste water 廢水|废水, exhaust gas 廢氣|废气, industrial slag 廢渣|废渣 | |
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| | the three provinces of Northeast China, namely: Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省, Jilin Province 吉林省 and Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省 | |
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| | in groups of three or four (idiom) | |
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| | the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.) | |
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| | in two minds about sth (idiom) / half-hearted / shilly-shallying | |
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| | in the depth of night / late at night | |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | lit. to retreat ninety li (idiom) / fig. to shun; to assiduously avoid | |
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| | unexpected misfortune / unexpected accident / sudden death | |
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| | (coll.) Arisaka Type 38 rifle (Japanese army rifle used 1905-1945) | |
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| | residence consisting of structures surrounding a courtyard on three sides | |
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| | calligraphic flourish with many twists / fig. many twists and turns | |
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| | pansy | |
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| | (idiom) dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript | |
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| | sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra | |
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| | Sanmenxia, prefecture-level city in Henan | |
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| | three-drawer desk (traditional Chinese piece of furniture) | |
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| | (TCM) the three truncal cavities (thoracic, abdominal and pelvic), known as the "triple heater" or "San Jiao" | |
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| | to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor) | |
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| | thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius) | |
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| | three-shift system (work rostering) | |
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| | three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact | |
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| | to make thoughtless remarks (idiom) / to criticize / gossip | |
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| | to get really angry | |
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