| | four / 4 | HSK 1 |
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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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| | courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in all directions / all around / far and near | 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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| | April / fourth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | all year round | |
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| | Siping, prefecture-level city in Jilin province 吉林省 in northeast China | |
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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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| | four sides | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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| | to radiate all around | |
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| | Thursday | |
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| | to spring up everywhere / from all around | |
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| | quadriceps muscle group / thigh muscles | |
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| | May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| | the top four | |
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| | lit. four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom) / fig. to achieve much with little effort | |
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| | to be picky / to be choosy | |
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| | nearby regions | |
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| | Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都 | |
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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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| | confused / disorderly / incoherent | |
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| | lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched | |
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| | parallelogram | |
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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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| | the four limbs of the body | |
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| | Thursday | |
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| | Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan) | |
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| | forty / 40 | |
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| | tetrahedron | |
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| | the four heavenly kings (Sanskrit vajra) / the four guardians or warrior attendants of Buddha | |
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| | to use all sorts of excuses | |
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| | Sichuan basin | |
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| | one's nearest neighbors | |
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| | refers to Tiananmen incident of 4th June 1989 | |
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| | fourteen; 14 | |
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| | (idiom) dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript | |
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| | applicable anywhere (idiom) | |
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| | to make a remark that startles everyone present (idiom) / (of a remark) startling | |
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| | Siping, prefecture-level city in Jilin province 吉林省 in northeast China | |
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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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| | Siziwang banner or Dörvön-xüüxed khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布｜乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | (math.) to round up or down / to round off | |
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| | to look around | |
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| | the four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | |
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| | one-quarter | |
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| | lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war | |
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| | New Fourth army of Republic of China, set up in 1937 and controlled by the communists | |
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| | quartet (musical ensemble) | |
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| | Siku Quanshu (collection of books compiled during Qing dynasty) | |
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| | Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong) | |
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| | lizard | |
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| | to look around | |
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| | "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | danger lurks on every side (idiom) | |
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| | all sides | |
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| | tetracycline | |
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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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| | 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 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods | |
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| | to disperse / to scatter in all directions | |
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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | green bean / French bean / runner bean | |
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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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| | all around / on all sides / encircled | |
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| | the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲｜平声, rising tone 上聲｜上声, departing tone 去聲｜去声 and entering tone 入聲｜入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin | |
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| | sprawled out on one's back (idiom) | |
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| | everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary | |
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| | quadrilateral | |
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| | polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), trademarked as Teflon | |
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| | a slow march | |
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| | quarterback (QB) (American football) | |
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| | the four basic operations of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) | |
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| | one's four limbs / two arms and two legs | |
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| | square-jawed face | |
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| | the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty | |
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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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| | four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back | |
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| | fourth tone in Mandarin / falling tone | |
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| | fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war | |
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| | to aspire to travel far and make one's mark (idiom) | |
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| | quartile (statistics) | |
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| | fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years) | |
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| | Sifang district of Qingdao city 青島市｜青岛市, Shandong | |
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| | chariot | |
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| | sonnet | |
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| | (TCM) the four methods of diagnosis, namely 望診｜望诊 (observation), 聞診｜闻诊 (auscultation and olfaction), 問診｜问诊 (interrogation), 切診｜切诊 (pulse feeling and palpation) | |
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| | (archaic) the four rivers (Yangtze 長江｜长江, Yellow 黃河｜黄河, Huai 淮河, Ji 濟水｜济水) / (TCM) acupuncture point SJ-9 | |
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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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| | all around | |
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| | Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都 | |
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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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| | crotchet (music) | |
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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 corner code (input method for Chinese characters) | |
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| | the four book depositories, namely: classics 經｜经, history 史, philosophy 子, belles-lettres 集 | |
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