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  *灯* | 灯* | *灯
lamp / light / lantern / CL: 盞|盏
HSK 2
(stage) lighting / light
HSK 4
electric light / CL: 盞|盏
HSK 4
desk lamp / table lamp
HSK 6
lantern
HSK 7-9
red light
HSK 7-9
light bulb / see also 電燈泡|电灯泡 / third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
street lamp / street light
HSK 7-9
green light (traffic signal) / (fig.) permission to proceed
HSK 7-9
to be decorated with lanterns and colored banners (idiom)
HSK 7-9
lights
lantern slides
lighthouse / CL:
headlight
vehicle light (headlight, turn indicator etc)
wall lamp / bracket light / CL: 盞|盏
fluorescent light
carnival during the Lantern Festival, with lantern displays and traditional folk performances such as stilt walking and lion dance
hanging lamp
to light a lamp
riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)
spotlight
searchlight
a portable lamp
oil lamp
dragon lantern
fog lights (of a motor vehicle)
(textiles) corduroy
filament (in a lightbulb)
dome light (of a taxi etc) / ceiling light (in a room) / interior light (of a car) / light on the top of a mast etc
electric light socket / burner (component of a kerosene lamp) / light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house)
turn out the lights / lights out
colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节)
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
to light a lamp / to raise a lantern
lamppost
headlight
streetlight
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
taillight
spirit lamp
early evening when lanterns are first lit
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / chaser lights / self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker
gas lamp
ice lantern
miner's lamp / mining light
cover of lamp / lampshade / glass cover of oil lamp
lantern / uncovered oil lamp
floor lamp
to hold a lamp / to light a lamp
decorated lantern; lantern light
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
barn lantern / kerosene lamp
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
blowtorch; blowlamp
desk lamp
pitch dark
lampwick
rush (botany) / Juncaceae
lampstand
beacon light / beacon
arc lamp
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with
headlight (of a vehicle) / headlamp; head torch
variant of 燈心|灯心
incandescent light
traffic light / traffic signal
to turn on the light
LED lamp bead; small light bulb
flash bulb (photography)
brightly lit
to turn on a light; (of a light) to light up
moth
fluorescent tube or light
floodlight
Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋
traffic light
mercury-vapor lamp
to pass on the light of Buddha
fluorescent lamp / neon lamp
light bulb / (slang) unwanted third guest
flush-mounted ceiling lamp (loanword)
lamp / turn signal
LED strip light
compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)
dark; unlit / a blacklight; an ultraviolet light
red-light district
neon lamp (loanword)
signal light / car indicator
to run a red light / failing to stop at a red traffic light / (slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating
spotlight
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
vehicle turn indicator light
fluorescent light
bloomers / plus fours / knickerbockers
(vehicle) headlight
Diwali (Hindu festival)
low beam (headlights)
Dengta, county-level city in Liaoyang 遼陽|辽阳, Liaoning

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