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pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
leaf tobacco
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *叶* | 叶* | *叶
to be in harmony
the first half (of a period)
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
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)
bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy)
(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)
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)
needle-leaved (tree)
senna leaf (Folium sennae)
monocotyledon (plant family distinguished by single embryonic leaf, includes grasses, orchids and lilies)
tree leaves
HSK 4
betel
compound leaf (botany)
mid- (e.g. mid-century) / middle period
dead leaf; withered leaf
golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty
tarragon
occipital lobe
blade
early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
tender young leaves
fan blade
thick stems and broad leaves (idiom) / boorish / rough and ready / sloppy
green leaf / (fig.) actor playing a supporting role
coriander leaf
hinge
Charles Fourier (French sociologist and socialist, 1772-1837)
Braille (name) / Louis Braille (1809-1852), French educator who invented braille
broad-leaved (tree)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *葉* | 葉* | *葉
surname Ye
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *葉* | 葉* | *葉
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats
alternate phyllotaxy (leaf pattern)
lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom); to drive out the old and make a clean sweep
maple leaf
insect-catching leaf
Phrynium capitatum
autumn leaf
silver leaf
cotyledon (first embryonic leaf)
tea / tea leaves / CL: , , ,
HSK 4
Juliet or Juliette (name)
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (French mathematician, 1768-1830)
frontal lobe
stipule
bay leaf; laurel leaf
temporal lobe
Chiba (Japanese surname and place name)
leafy
coriander leaf
Sanskrit on Talipot palm leaves (idiom); Buddhist scripture
to become bogged down in the details (idiom)
dried leaf
leaf (usually bamboo or reed leaf) used to wrap sticky rice dumplings 粽子
branch and leaf
final years / end (of a decade, era etc)
parietal lobe
an intercalary fourth month brings food shortages
red autumnal leaves
lobe of the brain


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