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


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