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radish (Raphanus sativus), esp. daikon / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
to divine
HSK 7-9
divination
hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds?
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surname Bu
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(bound form) to divine
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Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable
to divine using the eight trigrams
(literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable
Abdullah (name)
(idiom) to foresee the future (without divination); to know beforehand through uncanny insight
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家
to foretell; to predict
(name) Ibrahim or Ebrahim / Ibrahim, a revered prophet in Islam, known as Abraham in the Judeo-Christian tradition
Labrang Monastery, Tibetan: bLa-brang bkra-shis-'khyil, in Xiahe county 夏河縣|夏河县, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, formerly Amdo province of Tibet
daikon; white radish (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
carrot
carrot / red radish
to choose a home
to do trade as a fortune teller
carotene
to divine; to prophesy; to foretell the future
oracle bone
Gypsy
radish cake (a type of dim sum, commonly called "turnip cake")
to choose a capital by divination / to choose a home / to choose one's burial place by divination
to choose officials by divination (archaic) / to practice divination without a definite question
shredded daikon pie
(coll.) little kid
summer radish (the small red kind)
to ask oracle for war forecast
Studio Ghibli, Japanese film studio
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900), political activist and founding member of the German Socialist Party SPD
useless person
medicine and divination
oracle tortoise shell
carrot (Daucus carota)
when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom) / fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality
lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom) / fig. each person has his own position / each to his own / horses for courses / every kettle has its lid
Rice Krispies
to predict by divining; to consult the oracle
day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc)
to divine by tossing coins
oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
vaporizer (e-cigarette) (loanword)
lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem
summer radish (the small red kind)
summer radish (the small red kind)
(coll.) womanizer / skirt-chaser
(saying) one man's meat is another man's poison; to each his own
variant of 多普勒


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