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HSK
today / the present time; now
HSK 1
daytime / during the day / day / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
weather
HSK 1
yesterday
HSK 1
half of the day / a long time / quite a while / midair / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
the day after tomorrow / life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天) / acquired (not innate or congenital) / a posteriori
HSK 1
tomorrow
HSK 1
the day before yesterday
HSK 1
Sunday
HSK 1
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  *天* | 天* | *天
day / sky / heaven
HSK 1
winter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
spring (season) / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
the sky; the heavens
HSK 2
autumn / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
clear sky / sunny day
HSK 2
cloudy day; overcast sky
HSK 2
summer / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
sky
HSK 3
all day long / whole day
HSK 3
naive / innocent / artless
HSK 4
astronomy
HSK 5
talent / gift / genius / talented / gifted
HSK 5
natural gas
HSK 5
natural
HSK 6
the same day
HSK 6
land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule
HSK 6
paradise / heaven
HSK 6
blue sky
HSK 6
erhua variant of 聊天
HSK 6
gift / innate skill
HSK 7-9
antenna; aerial / (fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people
HSK 7-9
space flight
HSK 7-9
nature / disposition / innate / natural
HSK 7-9
swan
HSK 7-9
Catholicism
HSK 7-9
heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity
HSK 7-9
outdoors / al fresco / in the open
HSK 7-9
embryonic period (contrasted with 後天|后天) / inborn; innate; natural
HSK 7-9
angel
HSK 7-9
scales (to weigh things)
HSK 7-9
all day long; the whole day
HSK 7-9
(coll.) all day long / all the time
HSK 7-9
overhead walkway / pedestrian bridge
HSK 7-9
nature / innate tendency
HSK 7-9
(idiom) world-shaking
HSK 7-9
enduring while the world lasts (idiom) / eternal
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to imagine the wildest thing; to indulge in fantasy
HSK 7-9
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
HSK 7-9
natural gift / talent
HSK 7-9
blessed by heaven (idiom) / enjoying exceptional advantages / favored by nature
HSK 7-9
half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk
HSK 7-9
astronaut
HSK 7-9
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
HSK 7-9
to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古 creation myth
HSK 7-9
Tianshui, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省
aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener)
predator; natural enemy
nickname of the FAST radio telescope (in Guizhou)
Purple Mountain Observatory
nuclear winter
there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom)
(idiom) to stink to high heaven
heaven
asparagus
gargantuan / as big as the sky / enormous
Lotte (South Korean conglomerate)
carefree / happy-go-lucky / optimistic
China National Space Administration (CNSA)
Goddam! / goddamn / wretched
every day
Bao Qingtian, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty
artificial satellite
open-air amphitheater
absolutely fair and reasonable (idiom); equitable
to chat; to gossip
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
God / Heavens
astronomical telescope
see you tomorrow / (coll., jocular) food that passes through the digestive system more or less intact (esp. enoki mushrooms)
bright sunny day; blazing hot day
number of days / fate / destiny
"angel in white" (laudatory term for a nurse)
a slogan used in reference to a project to improve greenery in some parts of Northern China
skyscraper / CL:
Tianjin municipality (abbr. to )
lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
a pack of lies (idiom)
water and sky merge in one color (idiom)
reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
Milky Way / see 天河區|天河区
(loanword) tempeh
Tiantai school of Buddhism
(old) Arabia / Arabian
Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖 / Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)
(bird species of China) Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)
cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
to whine on for days (idiom) / to endlessly grumble complaints / incessant whining
Heaven; Providence; God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die; to pass away / the previous day (or days)
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