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| | (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / gossip / gossipy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at sixes and sevens / perturbed state of mind / in a mess | |
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| | eighteen / 18 | |
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| | eight-hour working day | |
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| | lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八 has been written (idiom) / fig. things have not even gotten started yet; nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet | |
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| | not much to choose between the two / tweedledum and tweedledee | |
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| | mustache shaped like character 八 | |
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| | lively discussion with everybody talking at once | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) all directions; all around | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ugly person | |
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| | eighty / 80 | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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| | distant relatives | |
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| | bastard; son of a bitch | |
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| | in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Eight Banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911 | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations) | |
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| | lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet | |
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| | child of a Manchu bannerman family (nobility) / (fig.) privileged brat | |
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| | the eight precepts (Buddhism) | |
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| | octopus | |
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| | quarterfinals | |
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| | 8:00 p.m. time slot (on television) / (Tw) (coll.) television drama series that airs in the prime time slot of 8:00 p.m. | |
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| | the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology) | |
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| | (bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) | |
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| | shape resembling the character 八 or 8 / V-shape / splayed / figure of eight | |
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| | octave | |
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| | force 8 wind / fresh gale | |
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| | quaver / eighth note | |
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| | the eight giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動｜古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈｜韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修｜欧阳修, the three Su's 三蘇｜三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏｜曾巩 | |
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| | turtle's egg (highly offensive when directed at sb) | |
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| | in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people) | |
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| | old-fashioned square table to seat eight people | |
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| | to talk rubbish | |
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| | August / eighth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | almost / nearing completion / bits and piece / of all kinds | |
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| | Eight Honors and Eight Shames, PRC official moral guidelines | |
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| | lit. the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing his own special talent (idiom) / fig. (of each individual in a group) to give full play to one's unique capabilities | |
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| | Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900 | |
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| | octal | |
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| | 8-bit (computing) | |
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| | rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc | |
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| | Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month | |
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| | lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom) / fig. greatly reduced / substantially scaled back | |
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| | the Eight-fold Noble Way (Buddhism) | |
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| | Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year | |
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| | Chinese anise / star anise / Fructus Anisi Stellati | |
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| | Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD | |
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| | International Women's Day 婦女節｜妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid | |
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| | soldier (from the two components of the 兵 character) (derog.) | |
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| | one eighth | |
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| | lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions / to be observant and alert (idiom) | |
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| | eighty percent / most probably / most likely | |
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| | Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination | |
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| | August | |
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| | Ba Ji Quan "Eight Extremes Fist" - Martial Art | |
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| | sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship | |
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| | musical box | |
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| | the twenty-eight constellations | |
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| | (coll.) unrelated; lacking any connection | |
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| | one yuan or less / around 80 cents or one dollar | |
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| | Bagua Mountain, Taiwan | |
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| | 16-year-old beauty | |
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| | an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing | |
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| | TEM-8 or Test for English Majors-Band 8, highest level proficiency test for English major students in PRC (abbr. for 英語專業八級考試｜英语专业八级考试) | |
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| | baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing) | |
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| | (idiom) of great talent | |
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| | earnest / authentic | |
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| | (sports) top eight / quarterfinals | |
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| | eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics | |
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| | (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically) | |
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| | the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria / also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳條溝事變｜柳条沟事变 | |
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| | lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | (idiom) the whole neighborhood | |
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| | lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was | |
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| | Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) | |
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| | sloping eyebrows, formed like character for "eight" | |
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| | eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties | |
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| | Demigods and Semidevils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its TV and screen adaptations | |
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| | be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations) | |
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| | step with feet splayed outwards | |
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| | Octopus (Hong Kong smart card system for electronic payments) | |
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| | an octave lower (music) | |
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| | octahedron | |
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| | pretty close / very near / about right | |
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