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  *十* | 十* | *十
ten / 10
HSK 1
very / completely / utterly / extremely / absolutely / hundred percent / to divide into ten equal parts
HSK 2
ample / complete / hundred percent / a pure shade (of some color)
HSK 5
crossroads / intersection
HSK 7-9
twenty; 20
fourteen; 14
twelve / 12
forty / 40
eighteen / 18
sixteen / 16
cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten
the twelve signs of the zodiac
sixty / 60
decimal
PRC National Day (October 1st)
eleven / 11
one billion / giga-
fifteen / 15
October / tenth month (of the lunar year)
thirty / 30
duodenum
nineteen / 19
ninety
seventy / 70
fifty
eighty / 80
hundred thousand
ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly
perfect; complete
a hundred or so
December / twelfth month (of the lunar year)
Isuzu
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋)
November / eleventh month (of the lunar year)
most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority
most urgent / posthaste / express
to put one's palms together (in prayer or greeting)
(idiom) to be a cinch; in the bag / (idiom) (of a person) confident of success
thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation
wicked beyond redemption (idiom) / heinous
lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
(idiom) bright and multicolored; of rich variety; dazzling; glitzy
exceedingly / hundred percent / everything and more
the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經|易经
complete and beautiful / to be perfect (idiom)
thirtieth
most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority
in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people)
sonnet
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
about a hundred / a hundred or so
Red Cross
cross / crucifix / yoke one has to endure
variant of 一曝十寒
thirteenth day of a month
the ten commandments (religion)
tenfold / ten times (sth)
ten commandments
one tenth
November
completely
adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom) / fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets / a task is not done until it's done
hexadecimal
Shanghai Y-10 / Yun-10 commercial jet aircraft
regardless of the consequences / recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast
the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements / (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省
Group of 77, loose alliance of developing countries, founded in 1964
The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems
the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story
Phillips screwdriver (i.e. with cross slit)
lit. the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / fig. the pot calls the kettle black
lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘
21st century
the seventies; the 1970s
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
the Crusades / crusaders' eastern expedition
lit. once bitten by a snake, one is scared all one's life at the mere sight of a rope (saying) / fig. once bitten, twice shy
Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals)
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
(idiom) (of news etc) to spread like wildfire; to be disseminated far and wide
Ten Permanent Functionaries at the end of Han, a byword for corruption
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
pretty close / very near / about right
cruciform / cross shape
pickaxe
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
Regulus (constellation)
lit. in gambling, nine times out of ten you lose (idiom) / fig. gambling is a mug's game
the sixties / the 1960s
blackjack (card game)
YAMAMOTO Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
several billion
the twelve equatorial constellations or signs of the zodiac in Western astronomy and astrology, namely: Aries 白羊, Taurus 金牛, Gemini 雙子|双子, Cancer 巨蟹, Leo 獅子|狮子, Virgo 室女, Libra 天秤, Scorpio 天蠍|天蝎, Sagittarius 人馬|人马, Capricorn 摩羯, Aquarius 寶瓶|宝瓶, Pisces 雙魚|双鱼

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