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tree
HSK 7-9
numb / insensitive / apathetic
HSK 7-9
forest / forest tree
tree, esp. with recognizable trunk (as opposed to 灌木, bush or shrub)
pine wood / deal / larch
pit prop
bush / shrub
building / construction / civil engineering
logs
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surname Mu
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(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
toy building blocks
beech
ebony
beam (gymnastics) / balance beam
to carry out large scale construction
bakelite
to approach one's coffin (idiom); with one foot in the grave
sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine / administrative subdivision of banner (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow)
red wood / mahogany / rosewood / padauk
dead tree
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
two-character surname Duanmu
Phoebe zhennan / Machilus nanmu / Chinese cedar / Chinese giant redwood
pomelo tree (Citrus maxima or C. grandis) / shaddock / oriental grapefruit
alder
hardwood
bakelite (early plastic) / also written 膠木|胶木
flowers and trees / plants / flora
a fine bird chooses a tree to nest in (proverb) / fig. a talented person chooses a patron of integrity
Dram (Chinese Zhangmu), town at Tibet-Nepal border
ironwood (Mesua ferrea)
Nyalam county, Tibetan: Gnya' lam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis)
railroad tie / sleeper
Suzuki (Japanese surname)
maple (timber)
rice-paper plant (Tetrapanax papyriferus)
rootstock (stem onto which a branch is grafted)
lit. to graft flowers onto a tree (idiom) / fig. to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another
Sasaki (Japanese surname)
Aoki (Japanese surname)
fringe flower (Loropetalum chinense), evergreen shrub
fruit tree
Nyêmo county, Tibetan: Snye mo rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨, Tibet
oaken
Crimea / the Crimean peninsula
wood turning / woodwork lathe
Takagi (Japanese surname)
mahogany
bamboo and wood
elm / elmwood
cork
night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum)
incense wood
fallen tree
the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang
beam / rafter / lintel / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state)
Chinese sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana)
elder or elderberry (genus Sambucus)
maple
amonang tree (Ixonanthes chinensis)
wenge or wengue (type of wood)
almond (loanword)
deciduous tree
yellow rosewood
to cut wood / tree-felling / lumbering
antiaris, aka upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria)
to play with stacking blocks
to be placed in a coffin; (fig.) to die
hickory
almond (loanword)
(TCM) Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
battering ram
rotten wood
blackthorn
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
roost / perch
large-leaved dogwood (Cornus macrophylla)
coffin
birch
horizontal beam / wooden crossbar / thwart
false cypress (genus Chamaecyparis)
petrified wood (geology)
vegetation / plants
sumac (Rhus coriaria), east Mediterranean deciduous shrub with fruit used as spice / also called tanner's sumach or vinegar tree
sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine


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