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  *灯* | 灯* | *灯
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
street lamp / street light
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
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
lantern slides
vehicle light (headlight, turn indicator etc)
lights
oil lamp
headlight
filament (in a lightbulb)
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
lighthouse / CL:
to hold a lamp / to light a lamp
electric light socket / burner (component of a kerosene lamp) / light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house)
wall lamp / bracket light / CL: 盞|盏
colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节)
fog lights (of a motor vehicle)
fluorescent light
lantern / uncovered oil lamp
carnival during the Lantern Festival, with lantern displays and traditional folk performances such as stilt walking and lion dance
hanging lamp
to light a lamp
riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)
sunlamp
spotlight
searchlight
headlight
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
lamppost
corduroy (textiles)
dragon lantern
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
fluorescent tube or light
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
early evening when lanterns are first lit
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
cape gooseberry / Peruvian ground-cherry / Physalis peruviana
floor lamp
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
decorated lantern; lantern light
to light a lamp / to raise a lantern
a portable lamp
gas lamp
ice lantern
turn out the lights / lights out
miner's lamp / mining light
barn lantern / kerosene lamp
dome light (of a taxi etc) / ceiling light (in a room) / interior light (of a car) / light on the top of a mast etc
blowtorch; blowlamp
desk lamp
pitch dark
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
taillight
streetlight
cover of lamp / lampshade / glass cover of oil lamp
rush (botany) / Juncaceae
lampstand
beacon light / beacon
arc lamp
headlight (of a vehicle) / headlamp; head torch
LED strip light
to turn on the light
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
floodlight
to pass on the light of Buddha
moth
lamp / turn signal
slide (photography, presentation software) / filmstrip / transparency
traffic light / traffic signal
Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋
tail light (on vehicle)
spotlight
neon lamp (loanword)
brake light
altar lamp burning day and night
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
fluorescent lamp / neon lamp
Dengta, county-level city in Liaoyang 遼陽|辽阳, Liaoning
lantern fish
light bulb / (slang) unwanted third guest
Song Dynasty History of Zen Buddhism in China (1252), 20 scrolls
traffic light
(lit.) to flash the yellow light / (fig.) to give a warning sign
kerosene lamp
signal light / car indicator
car front indicator
headlight
(vehicle) headlight
jack-o'-lantern
hazard lights
(dialect) match (for lighting fire)
only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
flush-mounted ceiling lamp (loanword)

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