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mechanism; gear / machine-operated / office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body / stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
stratagem
HSK 7-9
to bother about / to haggle / to bicker / to argue / plan / stratagem
HSK 7-9
resourceful / full of stratagems
HSK 7-9
dove tree (Davidia involucrata)
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  *蕙* | 蕙* | *蕙
Coumarouna odorata
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  *冬* | 冬* | *冬
(onom.) beating a drum / rat-a-tat
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  *栩* | 栩* | *栩
used in 栩栩 / jolcham oak (Quercus serrata)
cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
underlayer / lower class / lower strata / substrate
odds of success / stratagem that ensures success / to be sure of success
rock strata
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  *栎* | 栎* | *栎
oak / Quercus serrata
stratagem; method; approach / (martial arts) movement / social connections / (sb's) background story
variant of 鱸鰻|鲈鳗, giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata)
Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida)
to employ a stratagem
snow lotus herb / Saussurea involucrata
armyworm (Mythimna separata)
stratagem; scheme
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  *薰* | 薰* | *薰
sweet-smelling grass / Coumarouna odorata / tonka beans / coumarin
stratagem / strategy / resourcefulness
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  *谞* | 谞* | *谞
(literary) ability and wisdom / scheme / stratagem
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  *柞* | 柞* | *柞
oak / Quercus serrata
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  *橡* | 橡* | *橡
oak / Quercus serrata
delaying tactics; stalling; measures to stave off an attack; stratagem to win a respite
lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
plan of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift stratagem / interim step
to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
stratagem / scheme / shrewdness
variant of 岩層|岩层 / rock strata
lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
Murata (Japanese surname)
repeated layers / stratified / laminated / stacked / piled strata
stratagem of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift plan / interim step
stratagem; scheme
The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems
(economics) bonus stock or share, i.e. share issued fully or partly paid to an existing shareholder in a company, generally on a pro rata basis
(Tw) giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), aka swamp eel or marbled eel / (coll.) (alternative for the nearly homonymous 流氓) gangster
Mahābhārata, second great Indian epic after 羅摩衍那|罗摩衍那, possibly originally c. 4th century BC
Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
(botany) Mosla grosseserrata / (botany) Mosla chinensis
(loanword) via ferrata
stratagem (political or military) / trick
(botany) Mosla grosseserrata / (botany) Mosla chinensis
of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom) / the best thing to do is leave
wooden horse stratagem (cf Trojan horse)
full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom) / sly / crafty / malicious
(bird species of China) yellow bunting (Emberiza sulphurata)
the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush); double bluff
lower Cambrian series (geological strata from approx 530 million years ago)
holocene system (geological strata laid down during the last 12000 years)
stratagem of sowing dissension / CL: 條|条
lit. to sing "The Empty City Stratagem" (idiom) / fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness / (jocular) (of a place etc) to be empty; (of one's stomach) to be rumbling
(bird species of China) pied bush chat (Saxicola caprata)
army worm (e.g. Mythimna separata or Leucania separata etc, major cereal pests)
Vertebrata, the phylum of vertebrates
Coelenterata (such as jellyfish)
(bird species of China) rhinoceros auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)
stratagem to trap sb / to bewitch and trap
(bird species of China) Tahiti petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata)
(bird species of China) black-throated sunbird (Aethopyga saturata)
(bird species of China) rufous sibia (Heterophasia capistrata)
(onom.) bang (door slamming shut etc) / rat-a-tat (knocking on a door etc)


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