| | eight; 8 | HSK 1 |
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| | the eight precepts (Buddhism) | |
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| | eighty percent / most probably / most likely | |
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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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| | eighty / 80 | |
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| | anise / star anise / aniseed / octagonal / Fructus Anisi stellati | |
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| | 16 / sixteen | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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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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| | International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid | |
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| | serious / earnest / real / true | |
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| | tortoise / cuckold / (old) male owner of a brothel / pimp | |
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| | lively discussion with everybody talking at once | |
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| | an assortment / a bit of everything / lots of different (skills) | |
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| | myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of | |
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| | the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology) | |
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| | (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically) | |
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| | be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations) | |
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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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| | to talk rubbish | |
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| | Babu district of Hezhou city 賀州市|贺州市, Guangxi | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism) | |
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| | Yaohan retail group | |
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| | Mt Babao in Haidian district of Beijing | |
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| | almost / nearing completion / bits and piece / of all kinds | |
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| | at sixes and sevens / perturbed state of mind / in a mess | |
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| | rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc | |
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| | an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing | |
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| | mustache shaped like character 八 | |
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| | (idiom) everything broken and in disorder | |
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| | (coll.) Arisaka Type 38 rifle (Japanese army rifle used 1905-1945) | |
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| | not much to choose between the two / tweedledum and tweedledee | |
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| | eight-section brocade, a traditional eight-part sequence of qigong exercises | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | of great talent (idiom) | |
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| | the eight points of the compass / all directions | |
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| | sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship | |
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| | in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom) | |
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| | Eight Honors and Eight Shames, PRC official moral guidelines | |
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| | twisting and turning / tricky and complicated | |
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| | formal recommendation letter in eight columns | |
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| | (bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) | |
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| | all the trades / people of all trades and professions | |
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| | Badaojiang district in Baishan city 白山市, Jilin | |
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| | in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people) | |
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| | meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese) | |
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| | Bagongshan district of Huainan city 淮南市, Anhui | |
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| | palanquin with eight carriers / (fig.) lavish treatment | |
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| | lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom) / fig. greatly reduced / substantially scaled back | |
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| | everything in disorder (idiom) / in a hideous mess / obscene / dirty / filthy | |
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| | everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary | |
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| | very serious / solemn | |
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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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| | 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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| | assembled at random / a motley collection | |
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| | bits and pieces / scattered fragments | |
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| | in all directions / all around / far and near | |
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| | misshapen / crooked / uneven (idiom) | |
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| | (coll.) one thousand or almost one thousand | |
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| | 15th August (the date of Japan's surrender in 1945) | |
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| | Bye bye! (in chat room and text messages) | |
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| | six pack (abdominal muscles) | |
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| | completely mixed up / in a muddle | |
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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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| | about a hundred / a hundred or so | |
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| | musical box | |
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| | eight methods of treatment (TCM) | |
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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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| | ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺 in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body | |
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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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| | one eighth | |
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| | Ba Ji Quan "Eight Extremes Fist" - Martial Art | |
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| | son of a bitch / bastard | |
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| | (sports) top eight / quarterfinals | |
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| | Eight Banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911 | |
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| | eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics | |
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| | The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD | |
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| | the Eight-fold Noble Way (Buddhism) | |
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| | quaver / eighth note | |
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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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| | (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled | |
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| | distant relatives | |
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| | bastard (insult) / son of a bitch | |
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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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| | August / eighth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing) | |
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| | Bade or Pate city in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县, north Taiwan | |
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| | Chinese anise / star anise / Fructus Anisi Stellati | |
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