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  *节* | 节* | *节
joint; node / (bound form) section; segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize; to save / (bound form) moral integrity; chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour)
HSK 2
program / item (on a program) / CL: 臺|台, 個|个,
HSK 2
holiday / festival / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
HSK 2
syllable
HSK 2
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
time / season / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
details; particulars
HSK 4
saving / to save / to use sparingly / to cut down on
HSK 4
to adjust / to regulate / to harmonize / to reconcile (accountancy etc)
HSK 5
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
HSK 5
circumstances / plot; storyline
HSK 5
the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
HSK 5
rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat
HSK 6
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
HSK 6
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
HSK 6
public holiday
HSK 6
Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas
HSK 6
to save water
HSK 7-9
joint (physiology) / key point / critical phase
HSK 7-9
solar term
HSK 7-9
festive day / holiday
HSK 7-9
to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
HSK 7-9
to come apart
HSK 7-9
to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
HSK 7-9
frugal; economical
HSK 7-9
carnival
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Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
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  *节* | 节* | *节
chapter / section
beat (music) / meter
node
to control / to restrict / to moderate / to temper / moderation / sobriety / to administer
Thanksgiving Day
season; time
to economize on gasoline / fuel-efficient
All Saints (Christian festival)
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
to practice strict economy (idiom)
excerpt / selection (from a book) / to select / to choose an extract
of noble character and unquestionable integrity (idiom)
major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character
to save electricity / power saving
to practice birth control
integrity / moral principle
(computing) byte / CL: 個|个
to conserve energy; to minimize energy consumption
a minor matter / trivia / bar (music)
moral integrity / unflinching righteousness
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
inessentials / minor detail
to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke
to save food / to go on a diet
to abridge / to cut a text down to size for publication
convoluted and overelaborate (document) / unnecessarily elaborate writing / mumbo-jumbo
etiquette
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
bamboo joint
rhythm / pace
step by step / little by little
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
(diplomatic) envoy
the New Year festival
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
joint (of the skeleton)
reputation and integrity
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
jointing (agriculture)
turpentine
Fengjie, a county in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending / to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure
to economize on clothes and food / to scrimp and save (idiom)
chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy
to save / savings
nunchaku
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
abridged version
(dialect) critical juncture / crucial moment / Taiwan pr. [jie2 gu5 yan3]
(idiom) new problems arise unexpectedly
festival
branches and knots / fig. side issue / minor peripheral problem
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
to save on expenditure
minor details / trifles
betrayal / defection / turncoat / to change sides politically
abbreviation
character / integrity
lit. muscles and joints / by ext. the relations between parts in a speech, composition etc
faithful (to the memory of betrothed) / constant (of widow who remains unmarried)
to bow and scrape / to act servilely
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
to extract / to excerpt / excerpt
Ascension Day (Christian festival forty days after Easter)
gnarl / knot
to pay respects during a festival
(of a woman) indomitably chaste
festival season
PRC National Day (October 1st)
nodule / tubercle

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