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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *薄* | 薄* | *薄
thin / cold in manner / indifferent / weak / light / infertile
HSK 4
weak; frail
HSK 5
weak / frail / thin / flimsy
HSK 7-9
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *薄* | 薄* | *薄
surname Bo
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *薄* | 薄* | *薄
meager / slight / weak / ungenerous or unkind / frivolous / to despise / to belittle / to look down on / to approach or near
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  *薄* | 薄* | *薄
see 薄荷
light (weight) / frivolous / a philanderer / to scorn / disrespectful
membrane / film / CL: 層|层
unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions
field mint / peppermint
thin slice / thin section / flake / Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4]
inconstant in love / fickle
thin flat cake / pancake / pizza
thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3]
dusk / twilight
(of land) infertile / barren
scanty / meager
barren land / poor soil
(my inferior) wine (humble term used by a host)
superficial
mist / haze
lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom) / good preparation is the key to success / to be well prepared
thickness / also pr. [hou4 bo2]
to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚此薄彼)
to gush / to squirt / to surge / to well out / to overflow
my meager gift (humble)
small profits
my humble effort / my meager contribution (humble)
thin / rarefied
Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping
humble / meager / thin / to despise
crispy / thin and brittle / a crispy fried cracker
mean treatment / indifference / meager hospitality
lit. as if walking on thin ice (idiom) / fig. to be extremely cautious / to be skating on thin ice
thin paper (tissue paper, onionskin etc)
to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom)
to be unduly humble (idiom) / to undervalue oneself
supremely honorable and righteous
to favour one and discriminate against the other
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
sharp and unkind (words)
to despise / to scorn
to be on the verge of eruption (idiom) / (of the sun) to emerge in all its brilliance
thin / light / flagging / faint
my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)
garrulous and sharp-tongued
feeler gauge
little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修)
meager estate / small means
fickle / inconstant person
(idiom) hasty and rude; caustic and sharp-tongued
bashful / shy
frivolous; superficial
barren field / poor land
dim light / early dawn
meager; poor
at dusk / evening
to despise / to look down upon sth
mint (confectionery)
peppermint oil
(chemistry) menthol
menthone (chemistry)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Italian writer, poet, and humanist, author of Decameron 十日談|十日谈
Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct
savory (herb)
to be unlucky
lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute
peppermint
thin-skinned / sensitive
small profit but rapid turnover
meanness and generosity / intimacy and alienation
thin layer / thin slice / film / lamina / lamella
weak link / loophole
meager skill / my poor talents (humble)
at dawn
oil sheet
vast area / all the way to the sea
pancake
Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador to Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006
gauze (cloth)
light silk / silk chiffon
eggshell china
thin lens (optics)
small reward (for work) / meager remuneration
to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly
variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔
thin coat, meager food (idiom); life of wretched poverty / destitute
catnip; catmint
lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom); hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued
(idiom) frivolous
foil / Taiwan pr. [jin1 shu3 bo2 pian4]
harsh and merciless (idiom)
lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom)
generous care but a thrifty funeral / to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral
thinning scissors
(finance) to dilute (earnings per share)
diluted earnings per share
lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom) / fig. the day is drawing to an end / the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)


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