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thousand
HSK 2
kilogram
HSK 2
ten million / countless / many / one must by all means
HSK 3
a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom) / imminent peril / a matter of life or death
HSK 7-9
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
HSK 7-9
countless changes / constant permutation
HSK 7-9
lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
HSK 7-9
every family (idiom)
HSK 7-9
magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower / all the King's horses and all the King's men
HSK 7-9
absolutely true (idiom) / manifold / true from many points of view
myriads / hundred billion
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom) / fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline / to take a dive
kilowatt (unit of electric power)
linked in countless ways
swindler; cheat (in gambling)
Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
to swing (on a swing)
light-years (apart) / a million miles (apart) / (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)
ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey / a long and difficult road
thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive / once you've seen one, you've seen them all
each has its own merits (idiom)
millennium
lit. four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom) / fig. to achieve much with little effort
cosmos (Buddhism)
a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times)
Chiba prefecture, Japan
swing (seat hung from a frame or branch)
myriad / multitudinous / multifarious
Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
repeatedly urging / imploring over and over again
thousand miles distant
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
thousand jin (pounds) of gold / money and riches / (honorific) invaluable (support) / (honorific) daughter
the year 2000 / 2000 years
giga- / (computer networking) gigabits per second; 1000Base-T
Chiba (Japanese surname and place name)
millennium
several thousand
a lot of people (literary)
one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom) / (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect / each word is highly valued
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
total annihilation
jack (for lifting weight)
ten thousand or almost ten thousand
(coll.) one thousand or almost one thousand
thousands (of sth)
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort
thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop
a thousand years / your birthday (honorific)
extremely difficult
(idiom) to come in many different shapes; to display a great variety of forms
lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly / extravagant
thousands of purples and reds (idiom); a blaze of color / fig. a profusion of flourishing trades
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
make light of traveling a thousand li / go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom) / the vicissitudes of life
a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
heavily damaged / (fig.) full of holes / riddled with problems
a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom) / when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down
the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈
to be able to plan victory from a thousand miles away (idiom)
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle
a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
to have eternal regrets (idiom)
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations
great wide world / marvelously diverse world / (Buddhism) cosmos (abbr. for 三千大千世界)
extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
Qianyang County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡, Shaanxi
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
Kuril Islands, archipelago in Sakhalin, far-eastern Russia
Qianshan district of Anshan city 鞍山市, Liaoning
totally submissive (idiom)
(idiom) extremely diverse / to vary greatly
kilowatt-hour
kilobyte
the slightest difference leads to a huge error (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile
lit. a wise person reflecting a thousand times can still make a mistake (idiom); fig. nobody is infallible
kilocycle (KC), equals to 1,000 Hz
plethora of things to tackle / multitude of loose ends / very complicated / chaotic
after innumerable ages
fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
lit. ten thousand mile horse / fine steed
lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly / extravagant
from distant parts
lit. Train an army for a thousand days to use it for an hour. (idiom); fig. extensive preparation eventually pays off
kilohertz / kHz
throughout the ages
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
reflect a thousand times and you can still make a mistake (idiom); to err is human
Buddhist grottos
to shine through the ages (idiom)

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