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HSK
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
HSK 2
(TV or radio) program; show / item; act; segment; number (on the program of a concert, variety show or cultural event) / a planned activity (in one's schedule) / CL: 個|个, 場|场, 項|项, 臺|台, , 檔|档
HSK 2
syllable
HSK 2
holiday / festival / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
details; particulars
HSK 4
saving / to save / to use sparingly / to cut down on
HSK 4
time / season / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
HSK 6
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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
to adjust / to regulate / to harmonize / to reconcile (accountancy etc)
HSK 5
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
HSK 5
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
HSK 6
to conserve energy; to minimize energy consumption
HSK 6
(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
public holiday
HSK 6
Mother's Day
to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
HSK 7-9
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day
the New Year festival
All Saints (Christian festival)
accented syllable / stress
to pay respects during a festival
Children's Day
Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day
season; time
HSK 6
Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas
HSK 6
to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
HSK 7-9
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
HSK 7-9
April Fools' Day
White Day
rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat
HSK 6
season; time of year
Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off
closed syllable
International Women's Day (March 8)
(idiom) diligent and thrifty
variety show
(jocular) a day of frenetic online spending, such as Singles' Day
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
International Children's Day (June 1)
International Women's Day (March 8)
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
to save water
HSK 7-9
shopping festival; large-scale promotional sales event (e.g. Singles' Day 雙十一|双十一)
(computing) byte / CL: 個|个
frugal; economical
HSK 7-9
Beer Festival
minor details / trifles
Arbor Day (March 12th), also known as National Tree Planting Day 全民義務植樹日|全民义务植树日
moral integrity / unflinching righteousness
festive day / holiday
HSK 7-9
Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14
festival
Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
(music) bar line
radio program; broadcast program
to practice strict economy (idiom)
joint (physiology) / key point / critical phase
HSK 7-9
off-season; out-of-season
carnival
HSK 7-9
Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month
stanza
articular facet (anatomy) / surface in joint
intrauterine device (IUD)
major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character
byte count
Chinese New Year festivities
to come apart
HSK 7-9
air conditioning
solar term
HSK 7-9
CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special / abbr. to 春晚
Advent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)
Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month)
a diplomatic group / a delegation
multibyte
knuckle
temperate / moderate / restrained
articular cavity / joint cavity
music festival
seasonal
season's greetings (idiom)
arthropod, segmented animals with jointed limbs / same as 節肢動物|节肢动物
video program
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
etiquette
CCP Founding Day (July 1st)
side issues keep arising (idiom)
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维)
compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)
to save electricity / power saving
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 哈努卡節|哈努卡节 and simply 哈努卡
chapter / section
festival season

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