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great changes / ups and downs / vicissitudes / abbr. of 滄海桑田|沧海桑田
HSK 7-9
(loanword) sauna
HSK 7-9
The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Songhay people of Mali and the Sahara
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer
Zanzibar
(sports) (loanword) sambo
samba (dance) (loanword)
Tucson (city in Arizona)
mulberry farming / to grow mulberry for sericulture
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surname Sang
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(bound form) mulberry tree
Tanzania
Santana (name)
Arizona
Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan
lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world
Sanders (name) / Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont and 2016 Presidential candidate
Nissan, Japanese car make
(literary) one's native place
Mozambique
Sandra (name)
Hassan or Hasan (personal name or place name)
Shangzhi county in Zhangjiajie 張家界|张家界, Hunan
mulberry fruit (Fructus mori)
Moraceae (type of flowering plant)
mulberry tree, with leaves used to feed silkworms
to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom) / to compensate later for one's earlier loss / what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
silkworm
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old variant of
Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
having lived through many changes
Sandnes (city in Rogaland, Norway)
Sampaio (name) / Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, president of Portugal 1996-2006 / Sampaio, town in Brazil
older female / woman of mature years (Japanese loanword)
Lausanne (city in Switzerland)
Kisangani (city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree / fig. to scold sb indirectly / to make oblique accusations (idiom)
Arizona
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
a model of Volkswagen Santana based on the Passat B2 / Poussin (name)
older man / man of mature years (Japanese loanword)
mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese); madam
Sangiovese (grape type)
Samye town and monastery in central Tibet
a sense of having been through good times and bad / a weathered and worn look
state of Arizona
Shangzhi county in Zhangjiajie 張家界|张家界, Hunan
sauna (loanword)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script
Santander, capital of Spanish autonomous region Cantabria 坎塔布里亞|坎塔布里亚
Sandefjord (city in Vestfold, Norway)
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
mulberry fruit (Fructus mori)
Sangjian by the Pu River, a place in the ancient state of Wei known for wanton behavior / lovers' rendezvous
to have been through the hardships of life / to have been through the mill
lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记, Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes / life's vicissitudes
Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)


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