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| | fossil | HSK 5 |
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| | rock | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. as the water recedes, the rocks appear (idiom) / fig. the truth comes to light | HSK 7-9 |
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| | reef | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rock-paper-scissors (hand game) | |
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| | pomegranate | |
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| | quartz | |
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| | lithography / lithographic printing | |
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| | ore | |
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| | stone carving / carved sculpture | |
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| | to petrify / petrochemical industry | |
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| | Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County in Chongqing 重慶|重庆 | |
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| | stela / upright stone / obelisk | |
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| | sandstone / sand and stone / aggregate | |
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| | ruby | |
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| | stumbling block / obstacle / someone who gets in your way | |
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| | Panshi, county-level city in Jilin prefecture 吉林, Jilin province | |
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| | boulder | |
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| | rock cave / grotto / cliff caves (often with Buddhist statues) | |
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| | opal | |
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| | Shimen or Shihmen township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | stone statue | |
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| | stone / rock | |
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| | beryl | |
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| | marble | |
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| | gypsum CaSO4 ·2(H2O) / plaster / plaster cast (for a broken bone) | |
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| | (medicine) calculus; stone | |
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| | lapis lazuli (mineral of the square albite family) | |
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| | marble | |
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| | to touch base matter and turn it to gold (idiom); fig. to turn crude writing into a literary gem | |
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| | to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) | |
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| | Shijiazhuang, prefecture-level city and capital of Hebei Province 河北省 in north China | |
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| | to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down | |
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| | flint (stone) | |
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| | Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945) | |
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| | China pink / Dianthus chinensis (botany) | |
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| | zircon (colored crystal of zirconium silicate ZrSiO4) | |
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| | tartaric acid | |
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| | Huangshi prefecture-level city in Hubei | |
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| | stonemason | |
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| | grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called 鮨 / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper) | |
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| | cave; cavern | |
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| | Shilou county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西 | |
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| | early form of Chinese characters inscribed in stone, a precursor of the small seal 小篆 | |
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| | Longmen Grottoes at Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan | |
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| | Shijiazhuang, prefecture-level city and capital of Hebei Province 河北省 in north China | |
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| | Shiping county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan | |
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| | hectoliter / quintal | |
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| | surname Shi / abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, the capital of Hebei | |
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| | dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] | |
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| | rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | |
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| | metal and stone / fig. hard objects / inscription on metal or bronze | |
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| | (Tw) debris flow / mudslide | |
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| | sapphire | |
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| | stone inscription / carved stone | |
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| | siliceous rock | |
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| | (mining) coal gangue | |
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| | stepping stone / fig. person used to advance one's career | |
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| | Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet) / name of several historical figures | |
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| | stone channel (e.g. drain) | |
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| | to move a stone and stub one's toe / to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom) | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | claypot (used in cooking) | |
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| | Yungang Caves at Datong 大同, Shanxi 山西 | |
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| | calcite (CaCO3 as rock-forming mineral) | |
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| | pebble / cobblestone | |
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| | gallstone | |
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| | reindeer moss / litmus (chemistry) | |
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| | Lingshi county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中, Shanxi | |
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| | marble | |
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| | female suffering absence or atresia of vagina (as birth defect) | |
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| | fluorite CaF2 / fluorspar / fluor | |
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| | lithosphere (in geology, the rigid crust of the earth) | |
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| | azurite / copper azurite 2CuCO3-Cu(OH)2 / azure blue | |
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| | flint | |
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| | turquoise (gemstone) | |
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| | guava (fruit) | |
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| | jade / jade and stone / (fig.) the good and the bad | |
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| | Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County in Chongqing 重慶|重庆 | |
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| | limestone | |
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| | pomegranate | |
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| | Lingshi county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中, Shanxi | |
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| | Huangshi prefecture-level city in Hubei | |
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| | Neolithic Era | |
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| | noble dendrobium (Dendrobium nobile) | |
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| | "shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, once common in Shanghai | |
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| | Shishou, county-level city in Jingzhou 荊州|荆州, Hubei | |
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| | Dunhuang caves in Gansu / refers to Mogao caves 莫高石窟 | |
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| | Ishikawa (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Shiding or Shihting township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), one of the first modern Japanese novelists | |
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| | Ishida (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Huang Shigong, also known as Xia Huanggong 夏黃公|夏黄公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author | |
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| | foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation | |
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| | Carboniferous (geological period 354-292m years ago) | |
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