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HSK
wall
HSK 5
next door / neighbor
HSK 5
mural (painting) / fresco
HSK 7-9
Gobi (desert)
HSK 7-9
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  *壁* | 壁* | *壁
wall / rampart
barrier
squash (sport)
a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
rampart / barrier
wall lamp / bracket light / CL: 盞|盏
fireplace
wallpaper
a built-in wardrobe or cupboard / closet
copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense
precipice
high-speed blender
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader / scorched earth policy
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
Gobi desert
Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈, a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操 at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu / famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
wall newspaper
sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)
cliff / steep / precipice
cell wall
at the same time; simultaneously; while
(idiom) (of a cliff, mountain etc) steep; lofty; imposing
Hutubi county in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州, Xinjiang
niche (in a wall)
tariff wall
Hebi, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省
(idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces
tick / bedbug
closely guarded / strongly fortified / sharply divided
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to hit a wall / (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face
(of cliffs etc) stand like a wall / rise steeply
escarpment / precipice / cliff
half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands) / vast swathe of territory
Chibi, county-level city in Xianning 咸寧市|咸宁市, Hubei / Chibi or Red Cliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Red Cliff of 208
see 一壁
small fortress; fortified compound
tapestry (used as a wall hanging)
gecko; house lizard
to face the wall / to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism) / (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc
lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
dilapidated wall / to break through a wall / (fig.) to break through / (biotechnology) to disrupt cell walls / cell disruption
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
lateral / side / to the side / beside
Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
spirit wall (screen wall used to shield an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture)
wooden partition
steep cliff / precipice / vertical slope
to depend on others
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
Houbi, a district in Tainan 台南, Taiwan
wall hanging
wall of intestine / lining of gut
side wall
abdominal wall
persistent mold on the wall / efflorescence
trade barrier
Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds / to stand in the corner (punishment) / (fig.) to examine one's conscience
to leap onto roofs and vault over walls (usually associated with martial arts)
Chibi, county-level city in Xianning 咸寧市|咸宁市, Hubei / Chibi or Redcliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Redcliff of 208
(slang) to kabedon; to corner (sb in whom one has a romantic interest) against a wall (loanword from Japanese ドン "kabedon")
ledge
wall of the uterus
integument (biology)
Hutubi county in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州, Xinjiang
four bare walls
to cache; to hide supplies (from the enemy)
help / assistant
wall plug / screw anchor
to have one's defenses in good order (idiom)
wall effect
jai alai (sports)
Little Red Cliff, nickname of Bitan 碧潭, Xindian, Taibei county, Taiwan
Gobi Desert
barren sands of the Gobi desert
to criticize behind sb's back / back-biting
(bird species of China) wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria)
cavity wall
Chibi county in Xianning 咸寧市|咸宁市, Hubei
lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom) / fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship
next door / partition wall
walls have ears
next-door neighbor


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