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classroom / CL: 間|间
HSK 2
assembly hall; auditorium / CL:
HSK 6
paradise / heaven
HSK 6
dining hall; cafeteria / CL: 個|个, 間|间
HSK 4
Nintendo
church; chapel / CL: , , 間|间
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
three generations under one roof
Tongrentang, Chinese pharmaceutical company (TCM)
bright / clear
dining hall / canteen / cafeteria
cathedral
palace / hall / temple buildings
HSK 7-9
(honorific) your mother
college / school (old)
HSK 7-9
the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing)
grand / magnificent / stately / majestic appearance
to live under the same roof (of different generations)
to drag out a lesson / to insist on extending class after the bell
lecture hall / CL: , 間|间
to make a name for oneself
public baths
ancestral hall / memorial hall
law court / hall (in castle) / CL:
Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍
four generations under one roof (idiom)
(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)
waiter (old)
to gather happily under one roof
courtyard in front of a palace
Buddhist nunnery
to congregate in one hall (idiom); to gather under one roof
letting everyone have their say / taking people's views into account / free expression of different views / (contrasted with 一言堂)
dirty trick / monkey business
there is a lot to it / not a straightforward matter
meditation room (in Buddhist monastery)
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei
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
lobby
Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty
mourning hall / funeral hall
lit. gold and jade fill the hall (idiom) / fig. abundant wealth / abundance of knowledge
very bright / well-lit
chapel / church (Protestant)
Jintang county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan
mourning hall / a hall for a birthday celebration
Hall of Fame
whole audience / a sellout (capacity audience) / jam-packed
(dialect) alley / lane
lit. not fit for elegant hall (of artwork) / not presentable / coarse / unrefined
lit. a caged bird in a pavilion (idiom); fig. to lose vigilance by comfortable living / unaware of the disasters ahead / a fool's paradise
to stay behind (after class) / to be given detention / detention
tax haven
room to meet guests / parlor
Huairen Hall or Huairentang, a building inside Zhongnanhai 中南海, used as the main meeting place of the Politburo of the CCP
mother (honorific designation)
to get together all at once
imperial ancestral temple / imperial court / temple
(honorific) your mother
hall
Church of Our Lady / Frauenkirche
to appear in court for trial (old) / (of Buddhist monks) to have a meal together in the temple hall
(honorific) your parents
lit. don't sit under the eaves (where tiles may fall from the roof) (idiom); fig. keep out of danger
cathedral
heaven on Earth / nickname for the city Suzhou
synagogue
tax haven
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
having the same paternal grandfather but different father
to make it / to be somebody
college of Western learning in late Qing
customer area of a store / showroom / dining area of a restaurant
Shiseidō (Japanese cosmetics company)
public courtroom accusation (idiom) / legal confrontation / to take sb to court / to sue
scripture hall (Buddhism)
meeting hall; assembly hall
the part of the forehead between the eyebrows / yintang, acupuncture point at the midpoint between the medial ends of the eyebrows
ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / same as 拜天地
to open a law court / to set up a mourning hall
lit. a wealthy person does not sit under the eaves (idiom); fig. a rich man does not expose himself to danger
Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, linguist and inventor
memorial hall / mausoleum
Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istanbul)
torture chamber
cathedral
Du Fu's Thatched Cottage (park and museum in Chengdu)
main hall / honorific for one's parents (old)
dining hall in a Buddhist temple
school after the Western model, teaching subjects such as foreign languages, math, physics, chemistry etc (old)
Westminster Abbey, London
synagogue


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