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| | all around | HSK 5 |
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| | all over the place / everywhere and all directions | HSK 6 |
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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in all directions / all around / far and near | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都 | |
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| | April / fourth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | fourteen; 14 | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | Siping, prefecture-level city in Jilin province 吉林省 in northeast China | |
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| | forty / 40 | |
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| | Yokkaichi, city in Mie Prefecture, Japan | |
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| | grade 4 / fourth class / category D | |
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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | fourth of May, cf 五四運動｜五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| | four sides | |
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| | Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學｜大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語｜论语, and Mencius 孟子 | |
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| | the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor / see 禮義廉恥｜礼义廉耻 / the four directions / the four limbs (Chinese medicine) / four-dimensional | |
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| | tetracycline | |
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| | to disperse / to scatter in all directions | |
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| | to radiate all around | |
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| | Sihui, county-level city in Zhaoqing 肇慶｜肇庆, Guangdong | |
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| | all parts of the country | |
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| | danger lurks on every side (idiom) | |
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| | Thursday | |
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| | the top four | |
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| | all sides | |
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| | four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍｜青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武 | |
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| | to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own | |
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| | four-leaf clover | |
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| | abbr. for 四個現代化｜四个现代化, Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations | |
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| | Sifangtai district of Shuangyashan city 雙鴨山｜双鸭山, Heilongjiang | |
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| | "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | (of droplets, sparks etc) to fly about in all directions / to splatter everywhere | |
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| | common name for 麋鹿, Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), which is said to resemble an amalgam of animals such as a cow, deer, donkey and horse / an odd mixture of disparate elements / hodgepodge / farrago | |
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| | to make a remark that startles everyone present (idiom) / (of a remark) startling | |
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| | New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists | |
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| | lizard | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動｜四清运动 | |
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| | sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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| | Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆｜笔, 墨, 紙｜纸 and 硯｜砚 / the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript | |
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| | green bean / French bean / runner bean | |
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| | fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years) | |
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| | "the four pests", i.e. rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows / see also 打麻雀運動｜打麻雀运动 | |
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| | all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization) / complete lack of unity / to disintegrate / falling apart / to be at sixes and sevens | |
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| | one's nearest neighbors | |
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| | to look around | |
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| | carbon tetrachloride | |
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| | to become known far and wide (idiom) / famous | |
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| | the four limbs of the body | |
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| | the four book depositories, namely: classics 經｜经, history 史, philosophy 子, belles-lettres 集 | |
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| | to make thoughtless remarks (idiom) / to criticize / gossip | |
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| | refers to Tiananmen incident of 4th June 1989 | |
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| | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋｜张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution | |
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| | tetrahedron | |
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| | confused / disorderly / incoherent | |
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| | Siziwang banner or Dörvön-xüüxed khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布｜乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | one's four limbs / two arms and two legs | |
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| | forgetful / empty-headed | |
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| | lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched | |
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| | to be picky / to be choosy | |
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| | Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan) | |
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| | four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back | |
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| | fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war | |
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| | everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary | |
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| | crotchet (music) | |
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| | never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite | |
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| | quarterback (QB) (American football) | |
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| | 12th April / refers to Chiang Kai-shek's coup of 12th April 1927 against the communists in Shanghai | |
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| | suburb / outskirts (of town) | |
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| | (lit.) Zhang Three and Li Four; (fig.) any Tom, Dick or Harry | |
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| | repeatedly / over and over again | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | sonnet | |
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| | to use all sorts of excuses | |
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| | servile | |
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| | nearby regions | |
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| | back cover | |
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| | to sow the seeds of discord everywhere (idiom) | |
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| | friends; cronies | |
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| | nearby | |
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| | (of a perfume or a foul odor) permeating the whole place / (of grease etc) dripping everywhere / flowing all over the place | |
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| | Li Si, name for an unspecified person, second of a series of three: 張三｜张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry | |
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| | four of a kind / quads (poker) | |
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| | fourth-year university student | |
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| | the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經｜易经 | |
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| | to be pushing 40 | |
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| | repeatedly / over and over again | |
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| | fourth quarter | |
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| | Siziwang banner or Dörvön-xüüxed khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布｜乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍 | |
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| | four generations under one roof (idiom) | |
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| | polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), trademarked as Teflon | |
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| | all men are brothers | |
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