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| | over and over again / again and again | HSK 4 |
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| | (loanword) sandwich | HSK 6 |
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| | three-dimensional / 3D | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname San | |
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| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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| | March / third month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗 in 658 | |
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| | triple | |
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| | to order again and again (idiom) | |
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| | Samsung Group | |
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| | foreign, private and joint ventures | |
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| | syllogism (deduction in logic) | |
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| | (neologism) the three core personal values: worldview ( 世界觀|世界观), view of life ( 人生觀|人生观) and value system ( 價值觀|价值观) | |
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| | triangle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | thirty / 30 | |
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| | Samsung (South Korean electronics company) / Sanxing or Sanhsing Township in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan | |
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| | three major stars of the Three Stars 參宿|参宿 Chinese constellation / the belt of Orion / three spirits 福, 祿|禄, and 壽|寿 associated with the Three Stars 參宿|参宿 Chinese constellation | |
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| | triangle | |
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| | Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River | |
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| | trisomy | |
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| | to have three meals a day | |
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| | calligraphic flourish with many twists / fig. many twists and turns | |
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| | V-belt (a type of drive belt with a trapezoidal cross-section) | |
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| | delta (geography) | |
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| | regardless of the consequences / recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast | |
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| | cube (third power, math.) | |
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| | Sanlitun (Beijing street name) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Chen Shou 陳壽|陈寿 in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉朝|晋朝, 65 scrolls | |
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| | (idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night | |
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| | Three Character Classic, 13th century reading primer consisting of Confucian tenets in lines of 3 characters | |
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| | (slang) swearword / four-letter word | |
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| | over and over again (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | March | |
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| | grade 3 / third class / category C | |
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| | there are three ways to be unfilial; having no sons is the worst (from Mencius 孟子) | |
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| | Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三|张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry / (dialect) wolf | |
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| | Sanya, prefecture-level city in Hainan Province 海南省 | |
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| | Obuchi Keizo (1937-2000), Japanese politician, prime minister 1998-2000 | |
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| | (slang) threesome | |
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| | two or three | |
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| | cubic curve (geometry) | |
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| | Tripitaka, the three main types of text that collectively constitute the Buddhist canon of scriptures: sutras, commandments and commentaries | |
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| | Holy Trinity / trinity | |
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| | to raise one and infer three / to deduce many things from one case (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | third plenum of a national congress of the Chinese Communist Party | |
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| | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom / wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual | |
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| | trigeminal nerve | |
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| | the Three Precious Treasures of Buddhism, namely: the Buddha 佛, the Dharma 法 (his teaching), and the Sangha 僧 (his monastic order) | |
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| | three-section staff (old-style weapon) | |
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| | Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (Hong Kong) | |
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| | three generations under one roof | |
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| | a piece of land of 1.3 mu 畝|亩 / (fig.) one's turf | |
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| | in twos and threes | |
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| | quickly and effortlessly (idiom) | |
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| | in two minds about sth (idiom) / half-hearted / shilly-shallying | |
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| | salmon (loanword) | |
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| | Mitsubishi | |
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| | product lacking one or more of three requirements such as production license, inspection certificate, and manufacturer's name and location | |
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| | all walks of life (idiom) / every trade | |
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| | (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force | |
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| | lit. twice every three days (idiom); practically every day / frequently | |
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| | Three Gorges on the Chang Jiang or Yangtze, namely: Qutang Gorge 瞿塘峽|瞿塘峡, Wuxia Gorge 巫峽|巫峡 and Xiling Gorge 西陵峽|西陵峡 / Sanxia or Sanhsia town in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | the Three Doctrines (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) | |
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| | the Three Represents, a set of three guiding principles for the CCP introduced by Jiang Zemin 江澤民|江泽民 in 2000 and enshrined in the Constitution in 2004 | |
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| | History of Three Kingdoms (Korean: Samguk Sagi), the oldest extant Korean history, compiled under Kim Busik 金富軾|金富轼 in 1145. The three kingdoms are Goguryeo 高句麗|高句丽, Baekje 百濟|百济, Silla 新羅|新罗. | |
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| | chloroform (trichloromethane CHCl3) | |
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| | trigonometric function | |
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| | pedicab / tricycle | |
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| | triceps muscle / triceps brachii | |
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| | again and again | |
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| | triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China | |
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| | separation of powers | |
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| | written in a forceful hand / penetrating / profound | |
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| | sedan (automobile body type) | |
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| | three-dimensional / the real world (cf. 二次元) | |
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| | three of a kind (poker) | |
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| | one third | |
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| | Santai county in Mianyang 綿陽|绵阳, north Sichuan | |
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| | BWH, abbr. for a woman's three measurements, namely: bust 胸圍|胸围, waist 腰圍|腰围 and hip 臀圍|臀围 | |
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| | Three Gorges Reservoir on the Changjiang or Yangtze | |
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| | archaeological site of Sanxingdui outside Chengdu (Sichuan), exhibiting remarkable bronze artifacts from the 11-12th centuries BC | |
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| | trigonometry | |
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| | three items / three events / three terms / tri- / trinomial, ternary (math.) / triathlon (abbr. for 三項全能|三项全能) | |
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| | three-body problem (mechanics) | |
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| | (idiom) a thing should not be attempted more than three times; don't repeat the same mistake again and again / (idiom) bad things don't happen more than three times | |
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| | last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve | |
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| | China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (media term used esp. since 1997) | |
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| | the three imperishables, three ways to distinguish oneself that aren't forgotten by history: through one's virtue 立德, one's service 立功 and one's writings 立言 (from the Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传) | |
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| | three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou) | |
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| | triangulation (surveying) | |
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| | Yangtze River Delta | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | third (musical interval) | |
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