| | eight / 8 | HSK 1 |
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| | August / eighth month (of the lunar year) | |
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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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| | Bade or Pate city in Taoyuan county 桃園縣｜桃园县, north Taiwan | |
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| | eighteen / 18 | |
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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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| | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / gossip / gossipy | |
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| | Demigods and Semidevils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its TV and screen adaptations | |
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| | Octopus card (Hong Kong smart card for electronic payments) | |
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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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| | everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess / at sixes and sevens | |
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| | Bagua Mountain, Taiwan | |
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| | to talk rubbish | |
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| | lively discussion with everybody talking at once | |
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| | bastard (insult) / son of a bitch | |
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| | an assortment / a bit of everything / lots of different (skills) | |
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| | one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch | |
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| | August | |
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| | serious / earnest / real / true | |
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| | Ba Jia Jiang, the eight generals that guard the godly realm in Taiwanese folklore, represented by troupes of dancers in temple processions / (slang) lowlife gangster or young hoodlum, often written as "8+9", [ba1 jia1 jiu3] | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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| | in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom) | |
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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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| | Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900 | |
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| | at sixes and sevens / perturbed state of mind / in a mess | |
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| | almost / nearing completion / bits and piece / of all kinds | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | eighty / 80 | |
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| | light-years (apart) / a million miles (apart) / (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance) | |
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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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| | Bade or Pate city in Taoyuan county 桃園縣｜桃园县, north Taiwan | |
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| | (idiom) everything broken and in disorder | |
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| | (bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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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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| | tortoise / cuckold / (old) male owner of a brothel / pimp | |
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| | the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology) | |
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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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| | anise / star anise / aniseed / octagonal / Fructus Anisi stellati | |
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| | be smooth and slick (in establishing social relations) | |
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| | of great talent (idiom) | |
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| | (fig.) a long time | |
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| | "eight pieces of brocade," a set of qigong exercises with assumed medical benefits | |
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| | everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary | |
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| | (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically) | |
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| | octahedron | |
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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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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | six pack (abdominal muscles) | |
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| | an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing | |
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| | eight methods of treatment (TCM) | |
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| | rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc | |
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| | in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people) | |
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| | 16 / sixteen | |
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| | ugly person | |
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| | eight surges (a group of eight acupoints in Chinese acupuncture, namely PC-9, TB-1, HT-9 and LV-3, bilaterally) | |
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| | Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination | |
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| | octave | |
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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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| | G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations) | |
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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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| | Ba Ji Quan "Eight Extremes Fist" - Martial Art | |
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| | son of a bitch / bastard | |
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| | the Eight-fold Noble Way (Buddhism) | |
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| | one eighth | |
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| | Bamay in Dawu County 道孚縣｜道孚县, Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan | |
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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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| | 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 father and sons 三蘇｜三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏｜曾巩 | |
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| | eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics | |
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| | Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar | |
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| | palanquin with eight carriers / (fig.) lavish treatment | |
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| | octavo | |
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| | eight-treasure decoction, tonic formula used in Chinese medicine | |
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| | octagon | |
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| | very serious / solemn | |
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| | Yaohan retail group | |
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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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| | everything in disorder (idiom) / in a hideous mess / obscene / dirty / filthy | |
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| | Bye bye! (in chat room and text messages) | |
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| | Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | octagon | |
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| | mustache shaped like character 八 | |
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| | quaver / eighth note | |
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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. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions / to be observant and alert (idiom) | |
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| | baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing) | |
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| | the eight precepts (Buddhism) | |
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| | Mt Babao in Haidian district of Beijing | |
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| | bits and pieces / scattered fragments | |
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| | octal | |
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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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| | sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship | |
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| | Bagongshan district of Huainan city 淮南市, Anhui | |
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