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leaf (CL:) / (slang) marijuana
HSK 4
tree leaves
HSK 4
tea / tea leaves / CL: , , ,
HSK 4
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
(loanword) ECMO; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Ye Jiangchuan
hyperboloid of one sheet (math.)
mugwort leaf oil (TCM) / also called wormwood leaf oil / Oleum folii Artemisiae argyi
leaf tobacco
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
lit. eyes obscured by a single leaf (idiom) / fig. not seeing the wider picture / can't see the wood for the trees
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
clover / trefoil
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  *叶* | 叶* | *叶
to be in harmony
the first half (of a period)
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
foliated / striated into thin leaves
Chiba prefecture, Japan
(of plants) to grow luxuriantly; (fig.) (of a family or business etc) to prosper; to flourish
conifer
dead leaves / to lose leaves (of plants) / deciduous
Juliet or Juliette (name)
Shia (a movement in Islam)
mugwort leaf (TCM) / Folium Artemisiae argyi
omasum / beef tripe
leaf litter
latter half (of a decade, century etc)
Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies
dicotyledon (plant family distinguished by two embryonic leaves, includes daisies, broadleaved trees, herbaceous plants)
Stevenson screen (white box with ventilated sides, housing meteorological instruments) / thermometer screen / instrument shelter
leaf vegetable; leafy greens
prefrontal cortex (PFC)
Ye Yonglie (1940-), popular science writer
Yemen (Tw)
deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom) / (fig.) well established and growing strongly
bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy)
Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name) / Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia
Yarkant River in Xinjiang
Chinese horse chestnut (Aesculus chinensis)
(botany) an incomplete leaf – one that lacks a lamina, petiole, or stipule
laurel leaf; bay leaf
tripe (stomach lining of cattle etc used as food)
blade (of propellor) / vane / leaf
needle-leaved forest
(slang) to smoke pot
bay leaf / laurel leaf
Romeo and Juliet, 1594 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Sauropus spatulifolius Beille (shrub of the Euphorbiaceae family)
Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
lancet (surgeon's knife)
needle-leaved (tree)
senna leaf (Folium sennae)
monocotyledon (plant family distinguished by single embryonic leaf, includes grasses, orchids and lilies)
betel
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
Shia sect (of Islam)
Raymond YIP Wai-Man, Hong Kong film director (debut as director: 1994)
chlorophyll
compound leaf (botany)
(botany) leaf sheath
(botany) phyllotaxy; leaf arrangement
mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period
dead leaf; withered leaf
Yeltsin (name) / Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) first post-communist president of Russia 1991-1999
lutein (biochemistry)
Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
deck of playing cards
leaf-nosed bat
golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty
(bird species of China) common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)
tarragon
larch tree (Pinus larix) / deciduous pine tree
leaf bud
trilobite
occipital lobe
to propagate from leaf cuttings
Ye County or Yexian, a county in Pingdingshan City 平頂山市|平顶山市, Henan
venation (pattern of veins on a leaf)
(bird species of China) Javan leafbird (Chloropsis cochinchinensis)
blade
early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
tender young leaves
Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
(bird species of China) dark-necked tailorbird (Orthotomus atrogularis)
(math.) Fourier transform
to rhyme / also written 協韻|协韵
lobar pneumonia
fan blade
(slang) Canada
thick stems and broad leaves (idiom) / boorish / rough and ready / sloppy
green leaf / (fig.) actor playing a supporting role
needle-leaved plant (e.g. pine tree)
coriander leaf
hinge
small-leaf linden (Tilia cordata)
Yekaterinburg (Russian city, also known as Ekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk)
Charles Fourier (French sociologist and socialist, 1772-1837)

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