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  *牆* | 牆* | *牆
wall (CL:,) / (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙)
HSK 2
wall
HSK 5
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
wallpaper
drywall saw / plasterboard saw
lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients
firewall
HSK 7-9
copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense
wall / fence
curtain wall (architecture)
(computing) paywall (loanword)
city wall
HSK 7-9
wall newspaper
internecine strife (idiom); fighting among oneself
sb who goes whichever way the wind blows / sb with no mind of their own / easily swayed person / opportunist
Berlin Wall
foot of a wall
to sit on the fence (in a dispute)
useless (idiom) / worthless / inept
firewall
whitewashed wall / to whitewash a wall
crenelated parapet wall
lit. to lead the water through the wall / to ask for trouble (idiom)
(idiom) no secret can be kept forever
lit. to climb over the wall / fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China
(slang) (of a website) to get blocked
lit. to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall (saying) / fig. to rob Peter to pay Paul
perimeter wall / fence / CL:
HSK 7-9
plastered masonry wall
lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down
the walls have ears (idiom)
to undermine / to let someone down / to seduce someone away from something
lit. windbreak / fig. protector
Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem)
facade / external wall
drywall / gypsum wallboard / plasterboard
to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
Berlin Wall
gable
the surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall)
cavity wall / hollow wall
to paper a wall
embossed wallpaper
wallpaper
a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action
to eavesdrop / to listen in secret to sb's conversations
crenelated parapet wall
Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978-1979), and bulletin boards inspired by it, in some Hong Kong universities
Western Wall, or Wailing Wall (Jerusalem)
human barricade; (soccer) defensive wall
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
recess between walls
unplastered masonry wall
to climb a wall / (fig.) to be unfaithful
corner (junction of two walls)
parapet / defensive wall / breastwork
(literary) screen wall shielding an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture
erhua variant of 聽牆根|听墙根


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