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| | ample / complete / hundred percent / a pure shade (of some color) | HSK 5 |
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| | lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom) / fig. revenge is a dish best served cold | |
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| | (coll.) to look every bit the big star | |
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| | twenty; 20 | |
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| | the Baidu 10 mythical creatures (a set of hoax animals and puns linked to PRC Internet censorship) | |
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| | fourteen; 14 | |
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| | the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, Book of History 尚書|尚书, Rites of Zhou 周禮|周礼, Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮|仪礼, Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记, Book of Changes 易經|易经, Mr Zuo's Annals 左傳|左传, Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊傳|公羊传, Mr Guliang's Annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传, The Analects 論語|论语, Erya 爾雅|尔雅, Classic of Filial Piety 孝經|孝经, Mencius 孟子 | |
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| | cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten | |
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| | the twelve signs of the zodiac | |
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| | sixty / 60 | |
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| | decimal | |
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| | PRC National Day (October 1st) | |
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| | eleven / 11 | |
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| | equal temperament | |
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| | one billion / giga- | |
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| | twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions) | |
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| | fifteen / 15 | |
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| | October / tenth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | thirty / 30 | |
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| | nineteen / 19 | |
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| | ninety | |
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| | seventy / 70 | |
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| | fifty | |
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| | eighty / 80 | |
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| | hundred thousand | |
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| | ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly | |
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| | perfect; complete | |
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| | a hundred or so | |
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| | December / twelfth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | Isuzu | |
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| | Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋) | |
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| | 20th century | |
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| | November / eleventh month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | eighteen / 18 | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | most urgent / posthaste / express | |
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| | to put one's palms together (in prayer or greeting) | |
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| | (idiom) to be a cinch; in the bag / (idiom) (of a person) confident of success | |
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| | thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius) | |
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| | three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | wicked beyond redemption (idiom) / heinous | |
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| | lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail | |
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| | (idiom) bright and multicolored; of rich variety; dazzling; glitzy | |
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| | Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China | |
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| | exceedingly / hundred percent / everything and more | |
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| | twelve / 12 | |
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| | the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經|易经 | |
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| | complete and beautiful / to be perfect (idiom) | |
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| | thirtieth | |
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| | most likely / mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10) / vast majority | |
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| | crusaders / army of crusaders / the Crusades | |
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| | in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people) | |
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| | Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day | |
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| | about a hundred / a hundred or so | |
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| | The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD | |
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| | forty / 40 | |
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| | Red Cross | |
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| | last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve | |
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| | to have no need to fend for oneself (idiom) / to lead a pampered life | |
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| | cross / crucifix / yoke one has to endure | |
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| | thirteenth day of a month | |
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| | the ten commandments (religion) | |
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| | tenfold / ten times (sth) | |
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| | ten commandments | |
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| | one tenth | |
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| | November | |
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| | completely | |
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| | adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) | |
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| | the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | hexadecimal | |
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| | Shanghai Y-10 / Yun-10 commercial jet aircraft | |
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| | regardless of the consequences / recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast | |
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| | the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements / (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city | |
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| | Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省 | |
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| | Group of 77, loose alliance of developing countries, founded in 1964 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Phillips screwdriver (i.e. with cross slit) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘 | |
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| | 21st century | |
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| | lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine | |
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| | the seventies; the 1970s | |
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| | the Crusades / crusaders' eastern expedition | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom) | |
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| | Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals) | |
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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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