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tree leaves
HSK 4
leaf (CL:) / (slang) marijuana
HSK 4
tea / tea leaves / CL: , , ,
HSK 4
red autumnal leaves
shutter / blind
mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period
omasum / beef tripe
maple leaf
leaf tobacco
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  *葉* | 葉* | *葉
surname Ye
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  *葉* | 葉* | *葉
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats
blade (of propellor) / vane / leaf
Chiba (Japanese surname and place name)
dead leaves / to lose leaves (of plants) / deciduous
chlorophyll
green leaf / (fig.) actor playing a supporting role
tripe (stomach lining of cattle etc used as food)
lutein (biochemistry)
Yeltsin (name) / Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) first post-communist president of Russia 1991-1999
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
clover / trefoil
turbine wheel
Akihabara, region of downtown Tokyo famous for electronics stores
Charles Fourier (French sociologist and socialist, 1772-1837)
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to be in harmony
(of plants) to grow luxuriantly; (fig.) (of a family or business etc) to prosper; to flourish
golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty
tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea)
see 柳眉
Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬, starring 趙本山|赵本山
lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home
Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Trimeresurus stejnegeri (poisonous snake)
thick stems and broad leaves (idiom) / boorish / rough and ready / sloppy
lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
lit. the falling of one leaf heralds the coming of autumn (idiom) / fig. a small sign can indicate a great trend / a straw in the wind
deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom) / (fig.) well established and growing strongly
parietal lobe
Chinese horse chestnut (Aesculus chinensis)
conifer
Ye county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山, Henan
Yemen (Tw)
folic acid
lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom) / fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it / ostensible fondness of sth one really fears
leaf arrangement / phyllotaxy (botany)
lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom); to drive out the old and make a clean sweep
lancet (surgeon's knife)
bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy)
(botany) leaf sheath
dead leaf; withered leaf
early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
Stevenson screen (white box with ventilated sides, housing meteorological instruments) / thermometer screen / instrument shelter
Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
branch and leaf
Yarkant River in Xinjiang
frontal lobe
larch tree (Pinus larix) / deciduous pine tree
petiole / leafstalk
needle-leaved forest
final years / end (of a decade, era etc)
chloroplast
hinge
needle-leaved (tree)
to become bogged down in the details (idiom)
compound leaf (botany)
cotyledon (first embryonic leaf)
venation (pattern of veins on a leaf)
(botany) an incomplete leaf – one that lacks a lamina, petiole, or stipule
insect-catching leaf
autumn leaf
tea leaves powder
leaf vegetable; leafy greens
broad-leaved (tree)
tender young leaves
temporal lobe
mugwort leaf (TCM) / Folium Artemisiae argyi
Yip Man (1893-1972), martial arts practitioner, master of Bruce Lee
(botany) pulvinus
Shia (a movement in Islam)
dried leaf
bay leaf; laurel leaf
Yekaterinburg (Russian city, also known as Ekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk)
fan blade
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
Romeo and Juliet, 1594 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
(bird species of China) orange-bellied leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii)
silver leaf
geraniol (chemistry)
Chiba prefecture, Japan
bladeless fan
deciduous tree
(loanword) ECMO; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
defoliant
sutra written on leaves of pattra palm tree
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
Raymond YIP Wai-Man, Hong Kong film director (debut as director: 1994)
(Tw) fender (automotive)
liverwort (Jungermannia lanceolata)

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