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


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