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to talk nonsense
(bird species of China) rock bunting (Emberiza cia)
to water down / to play down / to trivialize / to weaken / to become dull with time / to desalinate / desalination
HSK 7-9
cold / indifferent
HSK 7-9
flat / dull / ordinary / nothing special
HSK 7-9
not caring about fame and fortune (idiom) / indifferent to worldly rewards
(coll.) to talk rubbish
calm and collected / unperturbed
off season / slow business season / see also 旺季
HSK 7-9
living a simple life
ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
to dilute
light yellow
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *淡* | 淡* | *淡
insipid / diluted / weak / mild / light in color / tasteless / indifferent / (variant of ) nitrogen
HSK 4
light (color) / pale / vague (feeling)
insipid / bland / indifferent
light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored) / insipid / slack (sales)
HSK 7-9
to fade in (cinema)
to gradually forget as time passes; to have (sth) fade from one's memory
apathetic / indifferent / unsympathetic
light blue
to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
dark; dim (light); dull (color); drab / (fig.) gloomy; bleak
tranquil and calm / indifferent
Tamsui or Danshui, district of New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
potable water (water with low salt content) / fresh water
freshwater fish
sparse / thin / distant
salty and unsalty (flavors) / degree of saltiness / brackish (water)
Tamsui or Danshui District, New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
to regard as unimportant / to be indifferent to (fame, wealth etc) / (of an economy or a market) to slacken
frigidity
quiet and contented / indifferent to fame or gain
shade (of a color, i.e. light or dark)
plain tea and simple food / (fig.) bread and water
simple and elegant
thin / light / flagging / faint
light makeup
living a simple life as one's ideal (idiom)
faint / dim / dull / insipid / unenthusiastic / indifferent
(bird species of China) Sharpe's rosefinch (Carpodacus verreauxii)
cold relations (e.g. between countries)
to fade out (cinema) / to withdraw from (politics, acting etc) / to fade from (memory)
(bird species of China) Hume's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus humei)
(bird species of China) yellow-billed nuthatch (Sitta solangiae)
(bird species of China) green shrike-babbler (Pteruthius xanthochlorus)
(idiom) to treat sth as no big deal / to downplay / to understate
in light or heavy makeup (idiom)
simple and elegant
a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子)
dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort
light beer
freshwater lake
insipid and tasteless (idiom)
(bird species of China) pale martin (Riparia diluta)
nonsense / irresponsible patter
(bird species of China) pale-throated wren-babbler (Spelaeornis kinneari)
(bird species of China) pale-footed bush warbler (Hemitesia pallidipes)
waves
tobacco (loanword) (old)
(bird species of China) Alström's warbler (Phylloscopus soror)
(bird species of China) pale-chinned flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys)
(bird species of China) lemon-rumped warbler (Phylloscopus chloronotus)
variant of 暗淡
shimmer


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