| | eight / 8 | HSK 1 |
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| | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 / gossip / gossipy | |
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| | eighteen / 18 | |
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| | the eight points of the compass / all directions | |
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| | in all directions / all around / far and near | |
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| | everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess / at sixes and sevens | |
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| | eighty percent / most probably / most likely | |
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| | myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of | |
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| | eighty / 80 | |
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| | the eight precepts (Buddhism) | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | tortoise / cuckold / (old) male owner of a brothel / pimp | |
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| | to talk rubbish | |
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| | octopus | |
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| | to have one's fortune read / system of fortune telling based on a person's date and time of birth, according to 干支 (sexagenary cycle) | |
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| | (bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) | |
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| | Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month | |
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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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| | Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination | |
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| | an assortment / a bit of everything / lots of different (skills) | |
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| | 16 / sixteen | |
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| | International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid | |
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| | anise / star anise / aniseed / octagonal / Fructus Anisi stellati | |
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| | serious / earnest / real / true | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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| | octal | |
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| | almost / nearing completion / bits and piece / of all kinds | |
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| | Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake / Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | Babu district of Hezhou city 賀州市|贺州市, Guangxi | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc | |
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| | Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | Mt Babao in Haidian district of Beijing | |
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| | lively discussion with everybody talking at once | |
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| | in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom) | |
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| | quarterfinals | |
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| | Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金|后金 from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty | |
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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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| | an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing | |
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| | Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900 | |
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| | not much to choose between the two / tweedledum and tweedledee | |
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| | pretty close / very near / about right | |
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| | six pack (abdominal muscles) | |
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| | at sixes and sevens / perturbed state of mind / in a mess | |
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| | 38th parallel, forming the DMZ border between North and South Korea | |
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| | (idiom) everything broken and in disorder | |
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| | "eight principles," a method of giving a general description and syndrome differentiation (TCM) | |
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| | Eight Honors and Eight Shames, PRC official moral guidelines | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | "eight pieces of brocade," a set of qigong exercises with assumed medical benefits | |
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| | the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology) | |
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| | everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary | |
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| | (fig.) a long time | |
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| | (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically) | |
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| | confused / distracted | |
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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-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics | |
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| | distant relatives | |
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| | eight-treasure decoction, tonic formula used in Chinese medicine | |
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| | old-fashioned square table to seat eight people | |
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| | Octopus card (Hong Kong smart card for electronic payments) | |
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| | meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese) | |
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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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| | octagon | |
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| | Chinese anise / star anise / Fructus Anisi Stellati | |
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| | be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations) | |
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| | sprawled out on one's back (idiom) | |
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| | the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime | |
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| | Bagongshan district of Huainan city 淮南市, Anhui | |
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| | (coll.) Arisaka Type 38 rifle (Japanese army rifle used 1905-1945) | |
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| | in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people) | |
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| | ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music | |
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| | 15th August / refers to Japanese surrender in WWII on 15th August 1945 | |
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| | of great talent (idiom) | |
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| | Baxoi county, Tibetan: Dpa' shod rdzong, in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区, Tibet | |
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| | the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by 李富春 in 1961: 調整、 鞏固、 充實、 提高|调整、 巩固、 充实、 提高 "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve" / a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan | |
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| | pattern-syndrome identification based on the eight principles (TCM) | |
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| | the famous eight beautiful and talented courtesans who lived near the Qinhuai River 秦淮河 in the late Ming or early Qing | |
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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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| | Bagongshan district of Huainan city 淮南市, Anhui | |
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| | octavo | |
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| | mustache shaped like character 八 | |
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| | musical box | |
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| | assembled at random / a motley collection | |
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| | the twenty-eight constellations | |
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| | everything in disorder (idiom) / in a hideous mess / obscene / dirty / filthy | |
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| | octagon | |
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| | Bamei or Bamay township in Dawu County 道孚縣|道孚县, Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan | |
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| | alangium | |
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| | splayfoot | |
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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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| | very serious / solemn | |
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| | Charter 08, PRC pro-democracy petition of December 2008 | |
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| | drab, stereotypical Communist Party writing style | |
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| | G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations) | |
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