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| | ballast stone; (fig.) source of stability | |
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| | foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation | |
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| | bluestone / limestone (colloquial) | |
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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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| | reef | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soapstone | |
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| | rock-solid | |
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| | Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Song dynasty politician and writer, one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家 | |
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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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| | marble | |
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| | | HSK 7-9 |
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| | stepping stone / fig. person used to advance one's career | |
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| | (geology) rock | HSK 7-9 |
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| | huge rock; boulder; monolith | |
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| | granite | |
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| | magnet | |
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| | sand and stones | |
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| | limestone | |
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| | lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible / to invite disaster by overreaching oneself | |
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| | Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), military leader, head of the Nationalist government in China 1928-1949 and the government in exile on Taiwan 1950-1975 | |
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| | marble | |
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| | | HSK 7-9 |
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| | moonstone | |
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| | orthoclase KAlSi3O8 (rock-forming mineral, type of feldspar) | |
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| | Qi Baishi (1864-1957), famous Chinese painter | |
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| | ruby | |
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| | rocks / stones / rubble / riprap | |
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| | touchstone / fig. test that sth is genuine | |
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| | lapis lazuli | |
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| | (mining) gangue | |
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| | whetstone (for honing knives) | |
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| | iron and stone | |
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| | kidney stone | |
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| | Dongshi or Tungshih Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan | |
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| | obsidian (mining) | |
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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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| | niter / saltpeter / potassium nitrate KNO3 | |
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| | cobble; cobblestone; pebble | |
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| | jade / jade and stone / (fig.) the good and the bad | |
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| | dolomite | |
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| | (mineralogy) apatite | |
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| | as solid as rock (idiom); as sure as houses | |
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| | Jianshi or Chienshih township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan | |
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| | zeolite | |
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| | gravel; crushed rock; rock debris | |
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| | vermiculite | |
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| | amphibole (silicate rock-forming mineral) | |
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| | Lingshi county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中, Shanxi | |
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| | hectoliter / quintal | |
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| | Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), one of the first modern Japanese novelists | |
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| | pumice | |
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| | boulder | |
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| | (medicine) calculus; stone | |
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| | hydroxyapatite (calcium phosphate mineral forming bone and tooth enamel) | |
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| | (mining) gangue / veinstone | |
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| | falling stone | |
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| | flint | |
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| | sapphire | |
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| | tourmaline | |
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| | calcite (CaCO3 as rock-forming mineral) | |
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| | tombstone; gravestone | |
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| | flint | |
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| | whetstone (for honing knives) | |
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| | garnet | |
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| | plagioclase (rock-forming mineral, type of feldspar) | |
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| | precious stone / jewel | |
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| | sandstone / sand and stone / aggregate | |
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| | chlorite (geology) | |
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| | flint (stone) | |
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| | (mining) coal gangue | |
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| | serpentine (geology) | |
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| | pillar | |
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| | fluorite CaF2 / fluorspar / fluor | |
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| | pebble / cobblestone | |
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| | gallstone | |
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| | tin oxide SnO2 / cassiterite / tinstone | |
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| | pyroxene (family of rock-forming minerals) / augite | |
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| | living fossil | |
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| | garnet (red gemstone Mg3Al2Si3O12) | |
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| | stone (British unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (about 6.3 kilograms)) | |
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| | ornamental limestone rock ( 供石) from Yingde 英德, Guangdong | |
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| | olivine (rock-forming mineral magnesium-iron silicate (Mg,Fe)2SiO4) / peridot | |
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| | stromatolite | |
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| | magnet | |
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| | hornblende (rock-forming mineral, type of amphibole) | |
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| | siliceous rock | |
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| | opal | |
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| | ocher (pigment) | |
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| | metal and stone / fig. hard objects / inscription on metal or bronze | |
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| | Rock Records, Taiwanese record label / the Rolling Stones, British rock band / Rolling Stone (magazine) | |
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| | dental calculus; tartar | |
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| | magnetite Fe3O4 | |
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| | whetstone / millstone | |
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| | (old) rocks that can be dropped from a height onto an attacking enemy | |
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| | otolith | |
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