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classroom / CL: 間|间
HSK 2
dining hall; cafeteria / CL: 個|个, 間|间
HSK 4
church; chapel / CL: , , 間|间
HSK 6
paradise / heaven
HSK 6
assembly hall; auditorium / CL:
HSK 6
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(main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL: 間|间 / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture
HSK 7-9
college / school (old)
HSK 7-9
palace / hall / temple buildings
HSK 7-9
lecture hall / CL: , 間|间
Nintendo
(dialect) alley / lane
Westminster Abbey, London
public baths
whole audience / a sellout (capacity audience) / jam-packed
item (in a program of entertainments) / trick (act of mischief) / worthwhile result / accomplishment / sth significant but not immediately apparent / sth more than meets the eye
mourning hall / funeral hall
lit. gold and jade fill the hall (idiom) / fig. abundant wealth / abundance of knowledge
dining hall / canteen / cafeteria
Shiseidō (Japanese cosmetics company)
main hall / honorific for one's parents (old)
to live under the same roof (of different generations)
imperial ancestral temple / imperial court / temple
law court / hall (in castle) / CL:
to gather happily under one roof
meeting hall; assembly hall
Jintang county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan
ancestral hall / memorial hall
hall
lobby
grand / magnificent / stately / majestic appearance
(sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old) / having things decided by the will of a single individual / autocratic rule / (contrasted with 群言堂)
bright / clear
(honorific) your mother
the part of the forehead between the eyebrows / yintang, acupuncture point at the midpoint between the medial ends of the eyebrows
customer area of a store / showroom / dining area of a restaurant
very bright / well-lit
meditation room (in Buddhist monastery)
waiter (old)
room to meet guests / parlor
Buddhist nunnery
dining hall in a Buddhist temple
to appear in court for trial (old) / (of Buddhist monks) to have a meal together in the temple hall
to congregate in one hall (idiom); to gather under one roof
to drag out a lesson / to insist on extending class after the bell
letting everyone have their say / taking people's views into account / free expression of different views / (contrasted with 一言堂)
lit. don't sit under the eaves (where tiles may fall from the roof) (idiom); fig. keep out of danger
lit. a caged bird in a pavilion (idiom); fig. to lose vigilance by comfortable living / unaware of the disasters ahead / a fool's paradise
Huairen Hall or Huairentang, a building inside Zhongnanhai 中南海, used as the main meeting place of the Politburo of the CCP
having the same paternal grandfather but different father
to open a law court / to set up a mourning hall
Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istanbul)
scripture hall (Buddhism)
cathedral
three generations under one roof
Tongrentang, Chinese pharmaceutical company (TCM)
(honorific) your mother
torture chamber
the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing)
Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, linguist and inventor
heaven on Earth / nickname for the city Suzhou
Hall of Fame
to get together all at once
tax haven
public courtroom accusation (idiom) / legal confrontation / to take sb to court / to sue
synagogue
cathedral
mother (honorific designation)
to stay behind (after class) / to be given detention / detention
Church of Our Lady / Frauenkirche
lit. not fit for elegant hall (of artwork) / not presentable / coarse / unrefined
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍
four generations under one roof (idiom)
(honorific) your parents
school after the Western model, teaching subjects such as foreign languages, math, physics, chemistry etc (old)
synagogue
memorial hall / mausoleum
Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty
mourning hall / a hall for a birthday celebration
lit. a wealthy person does not sit under the eaves (idiom); fig. a rich man does not expose himself to danger
cathedral
courtyard in front of a palace
ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / same as 拜天地
there is a lot to it / not a straightforward matter
Du Fu's Thatched Cottage (park and museum in Chengdu)
college of Western learning in late Qing
to make it / to be somebody
chapel / church (Protestant)
tax haven
to make a name for oneself
Mawei River naval college, alternative name for Fuzhou naval college 福州船政學堂|福州船政学堂, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty
dirty trick / monkey business


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