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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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| | surname San | |
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| | March / third month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | triple | |
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| | Chinese poker | |
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| | to order again and again (idiom) | |
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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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| | trigonometric function | |
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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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| | Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River | |
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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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| | 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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| | hat-trick (sports) | |
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| | (idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night | |
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| | Ku Klux Klan / KKK | |
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| | over and over again (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | March | |
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| | trisomy | |
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| | (slang) threesome | |
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| | Samsung Group | |
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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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| | Abe Shinzo (1954-2022), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2006-2007 and from 2012-2020 | |
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| | (bird species of China) yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki) | |
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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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| | grade 3 / third class / category C | |
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| | pedicab driver | |
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| | three generations under one roof | |
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| | in two minds about sth (idiom) / half-hearted / shilly-shallying | |
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| | Mitsubishi | |
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| | V-belt (a type of drive belt with a trapezoidal cross-section) | |
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| | separation of powers | |
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| | all walks of life (idiom) / every trade | |
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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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| | the Three Doctrines (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) | |
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| | chloroform (trichloromethane CHCl3) | |
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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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| | again and again | |
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| | salmon (loanword) | |
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| | lit. (having) three heads and six arms (idiom) / fig. superhuman abilities; exceptional capability | |
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| | written in a forceful hand / penetrating / profound | |
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| | three-dimensional / the real world (cf. 二次元) | |
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| | one third | |
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| | Santai county in Mianyang 綿陽|绵阳, north Sichuan | |
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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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| | archaeological site of Sanxingdui outside Chengdu (Sichuan), exhibiting remarkable bronze artifacts from the 11-12th centuries BC | |
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| | three-dimensional / 3D | HSK 7-9 |
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| | last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve | |
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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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| | (idiom) one after another; in quick succession | HSK 7-9 |
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| | pedicab / tricycle | |
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| | one day apart seems like three years (idiom) | |
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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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| | 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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| | tripod / derrick crane | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius) | |
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| | third (musical interval) | |
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| | three-shift system (work rostering) | |
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| | trigonometry (math.) | |
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| | scalene triangle | |
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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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| | Mita, Sanda, Mitsuda etc (Japanese surname or place name) | |
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| | 3 annual hunting bouts / 3 qi points | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August | |
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| | Holy Trinity / trinity | |
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| | somewhat / to some degree | |
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| | "Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951–52 | |
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| | the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.) | |
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| | (loanword) sandwich | |
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| | Sanjiang or Three rivers plain in Heilongjiang, vast wetland watered by Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江 or Amur, Songhua 松花江, Ussuri 烏蘇里江|乌苏里江 | |
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| | third-rate / inferior | |
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| | San Francisco (California) | |
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| | trigonometry | |
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| | triglyceride | |
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| | three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation | |
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| | in twos and threes | |
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| | the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant | |
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| | thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius) | |
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| | Three Gorges Reservoir on the Changjiang or Yangtze | |
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| | Samadhi (Buddhist term) | |
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| | Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s) | |
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| | 3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination / (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三級甲等|三级甲等) | |
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