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HSK
cold (climate) / frigid / very cold
HSK 4
winter vacation
HSK 4
to exchange conventional greetings; to exchange pleasantries
Hanting district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
typhoid
high and cold (mountain area)
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  *寒* | 寒* | *寒
cold / poor / to tremble
poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished
bitter cold / severe winter
Lesser Cold, 23rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-19th January
chilly weather / (loanword from Japanese) agar-agar
to defend against the cold; to keep warm
a life of strenuous studies (idiom)
stomach cold (TCM)
cold winter
winter clothing
(bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
Hanlu or Cold Dew, 17th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd October
lit. not cold, yet shivering (idiom) / fig. to tremble with fear / to be terrified
wind chill / cold weather / common cold (medicine)
(idiom) bitterly cold; frigid
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself) / Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia
cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) / the Qingming festival
to warm oneself / to expel the cold (TCM)
shiver
to fear / to be terrified
wretched / poverty-stricken / unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
bitter cold
overcoat / down jacket / winter wear
coldproof / resistant to cold
bitterly disappointed / frightened
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
poor / underprivileged / (of weather) crisp and clear
to escape the cold by going on a winter holiday
Great Cold, 24th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th January-3rd February
cold wave / CL:
beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty
of humble origin
disillusioned / bitterly disappointed / terrified
my humble home
a nip in the air / chilliness
fine hair on the human body
lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom); fig. intimately interdependent
affected by cold / to catch cold
a shiver
to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
(idiom) to show concern about sb's well-being
three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day
the north frigid zone
hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling
alone and poor / humble / (Cantonese) miserly
variant of 一曝十寒
variant of 寒磣|寒碜
Han Han (1982-), PRC blogger, singer and professional rally driver
it's lonely at the top (idiom)
Cambrian geological period (541-485.4 million years ago)
to dispel cold (TCM)
cold snap during the spring
bone chilling wind (idiom)
ugly / shameful / to ridicule
Hanting district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
the chilling effect of a climate of fear in which people are afraid to speak their mind
paratyphoid fever
cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom); fig. cold and solitary existence
salmonella typhimurium
(idiom) (of early spring weather) alternating between warm and cold
(polite) my wife (old)
cold and desolate
to relieve cold
lower Cambrian (geological period approx 530 million years ago)
lower Cambrian series (geological strata from approx 530 million years ago)
typhoid
pre-Cambrian, geological period before c. 540m years ago
to enquire solicitously about sb's well-being (idiom) / to pamper
murine typhus fever
to be of humble origin (idiom)
(of a bladed weapon etc) to gleam coldly
(old) impoverished scholar
polar climate
the Cambrian explosion
the Cambrian explosion
the Cambrian explosion
cold air / a chill one feels in the body (when exposed to cold air)
nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
typhus
to be scared out of one's wits
desolate and cold / frozen wastes
(bird species of China) Daurian jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus)
lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idiom)
murine typhus
murine typhus fever


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