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| | today / the present time; now | HSK 1 |
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| | day / sky / heaven | HSK 1 |
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| | tomorrow | HSK 1 |
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| | natural | HSK 6 |
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| | space flight | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses | |
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| | Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing | |
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| | astronomical unit (AU) | |
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| | rainy day / rainy weather | |
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| | Scorpio (constellation) | |
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| | the day before yesterday | HSK 1 |
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| | as if made by heaven | |
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| | Jin Tianhe (1874–1947), late-Qing poet and novelist, co-author of A Flower in a Sinful Sea 孽海花 | |
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| | (idiom) world-shaking | HSK 7-9 |
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| | throughout the world | |
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| | (old) Down syndrome; trisomy 21 | |
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| | reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success | |
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| | Cygnus (constellation) | |
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| | all day long; the whole day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to grow light (at daybreak) | |
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| | astronomical telescope | |
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| | (idiom) to reach for the stars | |
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| | to get dark / dusk | |
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| | the full light of day (idiom) / fig. peace and prosperity / in broad daylight | |
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| | astronomy | HSK 5 |
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| | talent / gift / genius / talented / gifted | HSK 5 |
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| | man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature | |
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| | land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule | HSK 6 |
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| | ceiling (of a room) / (fig.) upper limit; (slang) the very best (in a given field) | |
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| | natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect) | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | clear sky / sunny day | HSK 2 |
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| | enormous lie / whopper | |
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| | lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times | |
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| | Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗 / Tiantai county in Taizhou 台州, Zhejiang | |
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| | every day | |
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| | Tianjin municipality (abbr. to 津) | |
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| | see you tomorrow / (coll., jocular) food that passes through the digestive system more or less intact (esp. enoki mushrooms) | |
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| | the other end of the world / a faraway place | |
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| | Heaven; Providence; God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die; to pass away / the previous day (or days) | |
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| | culmination (astronomy) | |
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| | space center | |
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| | natural selection | |
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| | the following day; next day | |
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| | half of the day / a long time / quite a while / midair / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | natural gift / talent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | smallpox / ceiling / stamen of corn / (old) snow / (dialect) sesame oil | |
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| | afternoon | |
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| | the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom) / fig. the natural order of things / something you can't go against | |
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| | Heavenly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇 / emperor / emperor of Japan | |
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| | number of days / fate / destiny | |
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| | Heaven helps the worthy (idiom) | |
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| | the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) | |
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| | lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit | |
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| | (idiom) far apart / (idiom) from different places; from all over / (idiom) (to talk) about this and that | |
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| | inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet | |
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| | wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun | |
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| | never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to be astonished as if beholding a heavenly being (idiom) / fig. to be astounded by sb's or sth's extraordinary beauty or excellence | |
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| | Tiananmen Square | |
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| | in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom) | |
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| | good heavens!; oh my God! | |
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| | Lyra, constellation containing Vega 織女星|织女星 | |
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| | lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law | |
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| | (idiom) poles apart; as different as can be | |
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| | providence / the Will of Heaven | |
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| | not to know the immensity of heaven and earth / an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities | |
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| | embryonic period (contrasted with 後天|后天) / inborn; innate; natural | HSK 7-9 |
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| | enduring while the world lasts (idiom, from Laozi); eternal / for ever and ever (of friendship, hate etc) / also written 天長地久|天长地久 | |
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| | extremely expensive / sky-high price | |
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| | upside down / upturned | |
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| | angel | HSK 7-9 |
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| | God (in Catholicism) / abbr. for 天主教, Catholicism | |
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| | (idiom) thank goodness | |
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| | lit. a deluge of heavenly flowers (idiom) / fig. extravagant embellishments; hype | |
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| | new emperor, new officials (idiom) / a new chief brings in new aides | |
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| | weather | |
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| | a match made in heaven; a perfect couple | |
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| | Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, wuxia ( 武俠|武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations | |
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| | to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹) | |
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| | god / deity | |
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| | another day / some other time / to find another day (for appointment etc) / to take a rain check | |
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| | Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705 | |
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| | a world of ice and snow | |
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| | to suffer from a congenital deficiency; to have an inherent weakness | |
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| | all good things must come to an end (idiom) | |
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