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only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, , , , 間|间
HSK 1
lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
HSK 7-9
propitious wind throughout the journey (idiom) / plain sailing / to go smoothly / have a nice trip!
HSK 7-9
such things as ... / examples including ... (etc) / without exception / every / any
to defend / to protect (against)
HSK 6
housing
HSK 2
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
without rules, how can anything be done (idiom); one must follow some rules
house price / cost of housing
HSK 6
Southern Weekend (newspaper)
to give an interview / to be interviewed / to respond to (questions, a survey etc)
Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc
Fanshi county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy / steady and serious character
the store front / the part of a house facing the street serving as a store
real estate / the property market (e.g. houses)
(idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies
decrepit house
landlord / house owner
house / building
to let go one's hold / to give up / to have a free hand
rent for a room or house
HSK 3
second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
house / building / CL: ,
HSK 3
public housing
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
Shouguang, a county-level city in Weifang City 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back / no surrender / to pursue justice with no second thoughts
private house
to buy a house
the rear / far behind the front line
farm house
after liberation (i.e. after the Communist's victory) / after the establishment of PRC in 1949
public housing / dormitory, esp. for unmarried people
to sleep in separate rooms / distribution of social housing
History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Fan Ye 范曄|范晔 in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋, 120 scrolls
lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)
low-rent housing
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  *房* | 房* | *房
house / room / CL: 間|间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)
lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom) / fig. to bluff / to be all talk and no action / false bravado
charges for a room / house rental
wild fantasy / unwarranted thought
bungalow / single-story house
to sell
to turn a hand over / to put one's hand behind one's back / fig. easily done
category theory (math.)
Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork
lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom)
protective gloves
to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹)
Dafang, a county in Bijie City 畢節市|毕节市, Guizhou
ark
tile-roofed house
to buy a house on a mortgage / house mortgage
Xinjiang-style pilaf, made with lamb
furry (fan of anthropomorphic animal characters)
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  *切* | 切* | *切
definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters)
forward delivery apartment / unfinished housing to be paid for in advance by the buyer and then completed within certain time frame
Western-style house
to have free rein (idiom)
(of an author, musician etc) to sign (books, records etc) purchased by fans
to stay home alone (of married woman)
exhaust fan
without rules, nothing can be done (idiom); one must follow some rules
warehouse / storehouse / inn
to be caught off guard / without warning
Zhoukoudian prehistoric site in Fangshan district 房山區|房山区, Beijing
toilet (rural euphemism) / thatched hut or house
Pennsylvania
to build a house
to fancy from afar / reverie / wild and fanciful thoughts
without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules
to fire after the horse has bolted (idiom); to act too late to be effective
to provide alms and rice (idiom)
Pan-Pearl River delta / The nine provinces of Southern China around Guangzhou and the Pearl River delta / South China
the Pan-Pearl river delta (economic zone including the 5 provinces around Guangzhou and Hong Kong)
to hesitate / to have second thoughts / to be concerned / to brood (over sth) / to complain
walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)
compartment (of train, ship etc) / private room at restaurant / rented room for karaoke / hotel room rented by the hour
(gymnastics) cartwheel; to do a cartwheel
Noah's ark
workshop / temporary housing for workers / workers' living quarters
housetop / roof
house-swap vacation
wing (of a traditional house) / side room
(bird species of China) Blyth's paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone affinis)
(publishing industry) book signing event; (music industry) fansign event
to reprint (generally without authorization)
lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat / without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to glance back / (fig.) to regret; to have second thoughts about sth
one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb) / no pain, no gain
housing agent / real estate agent
temporary housing built with wooden planks or other makeshift materials
participant in a survey; interviewee; respondent
storeroom / warehouse
to rebuild (house or road) / to overhaul
co-op owned house
support group (e.g. for an election candidate) / fan club

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