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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
red light
HSK 7-9
lantern
HSK 7-9
street lamp / street light
HSK 7-9
to be decorated with lanterns and colored banners (idiom)
HSK 7-9
green light (traffic signal) / (fig.) permission to proceed
HSK 7-9
wall lamp / bracket light / CL: 盞|盏
lighthouse / CL:
headlight
corduroy (textiles)
vehicle light (headlight, turn indicator etc)
colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节)
cover of lamp / lampshade / glass cover of oil lamp
electric light socket / burner (component of a kerosene lamp) / light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house)
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
decorated lantern; lantern light
headlight
to turn on the light
incandescent light
flash bulb (photography)
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)
early evening when lanterns are first lit
lights
dragon lantern
carnival during the Lantern Festival, with lantern displays and traditional folk performances such as stilt walking and lion dance
spirit lamp
fluorescent light
flashing light / indicator light
neon lamp (loanword)
barn lantern / kerosene lamp
to light a lamp
headlight (of a vehicle) / headlamp; head torch
dome light (of a taxi etc) / ceiling light (in a room) / interior light (of a car) / light on the top of a mast etc
ice lantern
tail light (on vehicle)
Song Dynasty History of Zen Buddhism in China (1252), 20 scrolls
bloomers / plus fours / knickerbockers
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
signal light / car indicator
a portable lamp
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
moth
lampwick
traffic light / traffic signal
light bulb / (slang) unwanted third guest
riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)
turn out the lights / lights out
brightly lit
high beam (headlights)
floor lamp
miner's lamp / mining light
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
desk lamp
slide (photography, presentation software) / filmstrip / transparency
altar lamp burning day and night
blowtorch; blowlamp
taillight
sky lantern (miniature hot-air balloon used during festivals)
lantern / uncovered oil lamp
streetlight
fluorescent lamp / neon lamp
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
gas lamp
to light a lamp / to raise a lantern
mercury-vapor lamp
sunlamp
pitch dark
filament (in a lightbulb)
beacon light / beacon
to give the green light / to give the go-ahead
Dengta, county-level city in Liaoyang 遼陽|辽阳, Liaoning
oil lamp
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
to hold a lamp / to light a lamp
spotlight
opera for popular in Sichuan and Yunnan
rush (botany) / Juncaceae
to pass on the light of Buddha
Taiwan variant of 熒光燈|荧光灯
arc lamp
Dipamkara Buddha, the former Buddha before Shakyamuni Buddha and the bringer of lights
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
(dialect) match (for lighting fire)
pitch dark / also written 黑燈瞎火|黑灯瞎火
to sow discord / to provoke
floodlight
lantern slides
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
Diwali (Hindu festival)
lamp / turn signal
floodlight
lamppost

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