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HSK
husband
HSK 4
a manly man / a man of character
wife's mother; mother-in-law
(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom) / fig. at a total loss
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measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow
lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom) / fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline / to take a dive
older sister's husband / brother-in-law
one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals
square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square) / monastic room 10 feet square / Buddhist or Daoist abbot / abbot's chamber
(idiom) boundless radiance; splendor
wife's father (father-in-law) / old man
(coll.) he-man
lit. ten thousand fathoms / fig. extremely high or deep / lofty / bottomless
to measure / measurement
(saying) as one climbs higher on the path of righteousness, one faces ever greater challenges from evil; no sooner does one overcome one obstacle than another arises
sir (respectful form of address for an old man)
Guzhang, a county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州, Hunan
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
to get really angry
wife's uncle
father-in-law (wife's father)
wife's mother; mother-in-law
husband of paternal aunt
A leader can submit or can stand tall as required. / ready to give and take / flexible
teacher's husband
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
wife's aunt
ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body
zhang (Chinese unit of length equal to 3⅓ meters)
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
older sister's husband
decameter


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