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lamp / light / lantern / CL: 盞|盏
HSK 2
(stage) lighting / light
HSK 4
electric light / CL: 盞|盏
HSK 4
desk lamp / table lamp
HSK 6
light bulb / see also 電燈泡|电灯泡 / third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
lantern
HSK 7-9
red light
HSK 7-9
green light (traffic signal) / (fig.) permission to proceed
HSK 7-9
to be decorated with lanterns and colored banners (idiom)
HSK 7-9
street lamp / street light
HSK 7-9
LED strip light
colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节)
headlight
streetlight
(textiles) corduroy
vehicle light (headlight, turn indicator etc)
to sow discord / to provoke
miner's lamp / mining light
floodlight
flashing light / indicator light
lamp wick
(dialect) match (for lighting fire)
dome light (of a taxi etc) / ceiling light (in a room) / interior light (of a car) / light on the top of a mast etc
flash bulb (photography)
to light a lamp
lighthouse / CL:
carnival during the Lantern Festival, with lantern displays and traditional folk performances such as stilt walking and lion dance
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
headlight (of a vehicle) / headlamp; head torch
barn lantern / kerosene lamp
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs)
lights
wall lamp / bracket light / CL: 盞|盏
traffic light / traffic signal
lantern / uncovered oil lamp
(lit.) it's dark right under the lamp / (fig.) people tend to overlook things right under their noses
cover of lamp / lampshade / glass cover of oil lamp
hanging lamp
fluorescent light
slide (photography, presentation software) / filmstrip / transparency
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / chaser lights / self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker
Chinese enkianthus
(loanword) neon lights
early evening when lanterns are first lit
riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)
light bulb / (slang) unwanted third guest
bloomers / plus fours / knickerbockers
brightly lit
to pass on the light of Buddha
a portable lamp
floor lamp
to run a red light / failing to stop at a red traffic light / (slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating
searchlight
signal light / car indicator
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
spotlight
taillight
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
blowtorch; blowlamp
spirit lamp
to hold a lamp / to light a lamp
decorated lantern; lantern light
dragon lantern
ice lantern
Song Dynasty History of Zen Buddhism in China (1252), 20 scrolls
slide projector / overhead projector
tail light (on vehicle)
a fluorescent light; a fluorescent lamp
rush (botany) / Juncaceae
Dipamkara Buddha, the former Buddha before Shakyamuni Buddha and the bringer of lights
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
electric light socket / burner (component of a kerosene lamp) / light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house)
to light a lamp / to raise a lantern
pitch dark
headlight
moth
lantern slides
to give the green light / to give the go-ahead
altar lamp burning day and night
filament (in a lightbulb)
safety lamp / safelight
oil lamp
mercury-vapor lamp
beacon light / beacon
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
lampwick
gas lamp
opera for popular in Sichuan and Yunnan
Taiwan variant of 熒光燈|荧光灯
desk lamp
variant of 燈心|灯心
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with
kerosene lamp
fog lights (of a motor vehicle)
pitch dark / also written 黑燈瞎火|黑灯瞎火
cape gooseberry / Peruvian ground-cherry / Physalis peruviana
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
turn out the lights / lights out

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