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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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| | (idiom) all directions; all around | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in disorder / at sixes and sevens (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lively discussion with everybody talking at once | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to talk rubbish | |
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| | eighteen / 18 | |
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| | 28-spotted ladybird / hadda beetle / Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata | |
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| | lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom) / fig. to be observant and alert | |
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| | Bamay in Dawu County 道孚縣｜道孚县, Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan | |
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| | (fig.) a long time | |
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| | octoploid | |
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| | (bird species of China) collared myna (Acridotheres albocinctus) | |
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| | G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations) | |
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| | bastard; son of a bitch | |
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| | Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet | |
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| | bow legs / bandy legs | |
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| | Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination | |
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| | splayed feet | |
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| | sloping eyebrows, formed like character for "eight" | |
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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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| | Charter 08, PRC pro-democracy petition of December 2008 | |
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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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| | Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Shijingshan District, Beijing | |
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| | one yuan or less / around 80 cents or one dollar | |
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| | everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary | |
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| | August / eighth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | Demigods and Semidevils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its TV and screen adaptations | |
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| | eight types of jaundice with yellowing of body and face (TCM) | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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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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| | octahedron | |
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| | G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations) | |
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| | Bagua Mountain, Taiwan | |
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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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| | 16 / sixteen | |
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| | (bird species of China) blue-winged pitta (Pitta moluccensis) | |
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| | (bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) | |
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| | Bagongshan, a district of Huainan City 淮南市, Anhui | |
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| | ten thousand or almost ten thousand | |
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| | (coll.) one thousand or almost one thousand | |
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| | anise / star anise / aniseed / octagonal / Fructus Anisi stellati | |
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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-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties | |
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| | ugly person | |
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| | an assortment / a bit of everything / lots of different (skills) | |
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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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| | musical box | |
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| | eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics | |
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| | the eight influential points (acupuncture) | |
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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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| | (coll.) unrelated; lacking any connection | |
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| | (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically) | |
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| | "the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, abbr. for 八大元老 | |
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| | step with feet splayed outwards | |
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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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| | eighty percent / most probably / most likely | |
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| | soldier (from the two components of the 兵 character) (derog.) | |
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| | octagon | |
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| | one eighth | |
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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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| | confused / distracted | |
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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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| | quaver / eighth note | |
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| | very serious / solemn | |
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| | the eight precepts (Buddhism) | |
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| | octal | |
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| | an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing | |
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| | Chinese anise / star anise / Fructus Anisi Stellati | |
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| | Ba Ji Quan "Eight Extremes Fist" - Martial Art | |
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| | rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc | |
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| | the twenty-eight constellations | |
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| | the eight points of the compass / all directions | |
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| | pretty close / very near / about right | |
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| | the Eight-fold Noble Way (Buddhism) | |
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| | old-fashioned square table to seat eight people | |
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| | (TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction | |
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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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| | bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis | |
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| | eight-section brocade, a traditional eight-part sequence of qigong exercises | |
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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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| | International Women's Day 婦女節｜妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | 16-year-old beauty | |
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| | splayfoot | |
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| | the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology) | |
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| | grade 8 worker (highest on the eight grade wage scale) / top-grade worker | |
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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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| | octavo | |
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| | Shanghai Incident of 28th January 1932, Chinese uprising against Japanese quarters of Shanghai | |
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| | baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing) | |
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| | Eight Banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911 | |
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| | about a hundred / a hundred or so | |
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