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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
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
HSK 2
syllable
HSK 2
details; particulars
HSK 4
time / season / period / CL: 個|个
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
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
HSK 6
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
HSK 6
season; time
HSK 6
Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas
HSK 6
joint (physiology) / key point / critical phase
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
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
carnival
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *节* | 节* | *节
Thanksgiving Day
All Saints (Christian festival)
chapter / section
(computing) byte / CL: 個|个
inessentials / minor detail
to abridge / to cut a text down to size for publication
etiquette
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
bamboo joint
moral integrity / unflinching righteousness
(diplomatic) envoy
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
step by step / little by little
a minor matter / trivia / bar (music)
Fengjie, a county in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
jointing (agriculture)
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
joint (of the skeleton)
branches and knots / fig. side issue / minor peripheral problem
minor details / trifles
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
convoluted and overelaborate (document) / unnecessarily elaborate writing / mumbo-jumbo
betrayal / defection / turncoat / to change sides politically
the New Year festival
major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character
of noble character and unquestionable integrity (idiom)
chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy
reputation and integrity
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
to pay respects during a festival
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)
character; moral integrity
to bow and scrape / to act servilely
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
International Women's Day (March 8)
International Labor Day (May Day)
music festival
Valentine's Day
nodule / tubercle
Easter
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
pelvis / hip joint
etiquette / ceremonial protocol
film festival / CL: 屆|届
(of a high official) to temporarily reside overseas (or in another part of the country) on an official posting
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
Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14
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
carnival (esp. Christian)
combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day (occurring when the Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節|中秋节 falls on October 1st, as in 1982, 2001 and 2020) / binodal / two-section
PRC National Day (October 1st)
Chinese New Year festivities
chastity of a widow (old usage)
Torch Festival
Passover (Jewish holiday)
Sukkot or Succoth, Jewish holiday
Diwali (Hindu festival)
kilobyte
Songkran (Thai New Year festival)
Beer Festival
Army Day (August 1)
knuckle
at the Chinese New Year or other festivities
(Islam) Eid al-Fitr, festival that marks the end of Ramadan
closed syllable
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
Ascension Day (Christian festival forty days after Easter)
segmented
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
weak link / loophole
Advent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)
International Children's Day (June 1)
Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month)
off-season; out-of-season
Christmas (Tw)

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