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gray / ash gray / grizzly / pessimistic / gloomy / dispirited / ambiguous
HSK 5
dust
HSK 7-9
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ash / dust / lime / gray / discouraged; dejected
HSK 7-9
to lose heart / to be discouraged
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) grey-eyed bulbul (Iole propinqua)
(bird species of China) pale-legged leaf warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes)
plaster / mortar
(bird species of China) Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 / slaked lime
dusky / overcast (of weather)
as easy as blowing off dust / effortless / with ease
apatite (phosphatic lime)
(bird species of China) grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus)
(bird species of China) grey-headed parakeet (Psittacula finschii)
(bird species of China) great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus)
(bird species of China) black-winged cuckooshrike (Lalage melaschistos)
(bird species of China) sooty shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
(bird species of China) slaty-blue flycatcher (Ficedula tricolor)
(bird species of China) northern shrike (Lanius borealis)
grizzly bear
(bird species of China) grey-headed parrotbill (Paradoxornis gularis)
(bird species of China) Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus)
gray water
Cinderella / a sudden rags-to-riches celebrity
discouraged / downhearted
ashes
cannon fodder
(bird species of China) grey-winged blackbird (Turdus boulboul)
(bird species of China) chestnut-tailed starling (Sturnia malabarica)
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law
dark gray
bone ash / cremation ashes; cremains
(bird species of China) grey-hooded fulvetta (Fulvetta cinereiceps)
apatite / phosphatic limestone
ash-colored
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke
ashen-faced (idiom)
cigarette ash
(bird species of China) grey-cheeked warbler (Phylloscopus poliogenys)
limestone
limestone
box for bone ashes / funerary casket
volcanic ash
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
to blow away dust
ash from burnt paper
poliomyelitis
(bird species of China) Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis)
ashtray
plant ash
downhearted / downcast / in despair
every hope turns to dust (idiom); completely disheartened
discouraged / downhearted
slaked lime / hydrated lime
(bird species of China) grey-crowned warbler (Phylloscopus tephrocephalus)
dull gray / gloomy / dejected / crestfallen / with one's tail between one's legs
dull gray / drab / murky
calcium oxide CaO / quicklime
lime (calcium oxide)
gloomy and dull (idiom) / boring and gray / unpleasantly murky
soot
cement
to plaster / to render (a wall) / (fig.) to bring shame on / also pr. [mo4 hui1]
dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol
lit. to rub one's nose with dust / to suffer a snub / to meet with a rebuff
(idiom) a slight effort
grayscale
fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
(bird species of China) red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
big bad wolf
ash gray
lime plaster (construction)
(neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust
(bird species of China) grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
granny gray (hair color)
(bird species of China) grey-chinned minivet (Pericrocotus solaris)
(bird species of China) Blyth's tragopan (Tragopan blythii)
(bird species of China) grey-streaked flycatcher (Muscicapa griseisticta)
Pinot gris (grape type) / Pinot grigio
(bird species of China) greylag goose (Anser anser)
columbarium
(bird species of China) ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus)
(bird species of China) azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyanus)
(bird species of China) David's fulvetta (Alcippe davidi)
(bird species of China) white-shouldered starling (Sturnia sinensis)
(bird species of China) merlin (Falco columbarius)
(bird species of China) grey-tailed tattler (Tringa brevipes)
(bird species of China) grey bush chat (Saxicola ferreus)
(bird species of China) Himalayan owl (Strix nivicolum)
(bird species of China) ashy wood pigeon (Columba pulchricollis)
(bird species of China) ashy woodswallow (Artamus fuscus)
(bird species of China) grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus)
(bird species of China) slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
(bird species of China) azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus)
(bird species of China) grey-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
(bird species of China) grey-necked bunting (Emberiza buchanani)
wollastonite CaSiO3
(bird species of China) red-headed bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythrocephala)

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