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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
to defend against the cold; to keep warm
stomach cold (TCM)
wind chill / cold weather / common cold (medicine)
to warm oneself / to expel the cold (TCM)
to fear / to be terrified
bitter cold
coldproof / resistant to cold
bitterly disappointed / frightened
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
lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom); fig. intimately interdependent
affected by cold / to catch cold
three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day
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
alone and poor / humble / (Cantonese) miserly
variant of 一曝十寒
Han Han (1982-), PRC blogger, singer and professional rally driver
it's lonely at the top (idiom)
to dispel cold (TCM)
cold snap during the spring
paratyphoid fever
cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom); fig. cold and solitary existence
(idiom) (of early spring weather) alternating between warm and cold
cold and desolate
to relieve cold
murine typhus fever
typhus
desolate and cold / frozen wastes
murine typhus
murine typhus fever


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