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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
lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom) / fig. revenge is a dish best served cold
(coll.) to look every bit the big star
twenty; 20
the Baidu 10 mythical creatures (a set of hoax animals and puns linked to PRC Internet censorship)
fourteen; 14
sixteen / 16
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
cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten
the twelve signs of the zodiac
sixty / 60
decimal
PRC National Day (October 1st)
eleven / 11
equal temperament
one billion / giga-
twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)
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
variant of 一曝十寒
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋)
20th century
November / eleventh month (of the lunar year)
eighteen / 18
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
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
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
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
exceedingly / hundred percent / everything and more
twelve / 12
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
crusaders / army of crusaders / the Crusades
in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people)
sonnet
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day
about a hundred / a hundred or so
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD
forty / 40
Red Cross
last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve
to have no need to fend for oneself (idiom) / to lead a pampered life
cross / crucifix / yoke one has to endure
thirteenth day of a month
the ten commandments (religion)
tenfold / ten times (sth)
ten commandments
one tenth
November
completely
adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
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
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
lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine
the seventies; the 1970s
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
rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
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

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