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  *紫* | 紫* | *紫
purple / violet
HSK 5
the Forbidden City / the Imperial Palace in Beijing / same as 故宮|故宫
(TCM) dried human placenta (used as medicine)
gentian violet C25H30ClN3 / crystal violet
to hit the big time
red cabbage / purple cabbage
red sandalwood
black rice; purple rice
violet (color)
G.E.M. (1991-), Chinese pop star
Murasaki Shikibu (born c. 973), Japanese writer, author of "The Tale of Genji"
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet (the colors of the rainbow)
ultraviolet ray
Japanese yew (taxus cuspidata)
copper (pure copper, as opposed to alloy)
dark reddish purple / Internet slang abbr. for 這樣子|这样子
lit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom) / fig. beautiful flowers
genus Perilla (includes basil and mints)
red-purple / mauve / prune (color) / claret
Zipingpu Dam, Sichuan
purple / violet (color)
Chinese redbud (Cercis chinensis)
Hu Ziwei (1970-), PRC lady TV presenter
HMS Amethyst, Royal Navy corvette involved in a 1949 gunfight with the PLA on the Changjiang
amethyst (purple crystalline silicon dioxide)
Boraginaceae (family of flowers and bushes)
sage (herb)
lilac
Taxol (a.k.a. Paclitaxel), mitotic inhibitor used in cancer chemotherapy
Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)
ultraviolet (ray)
beefsteak plant / shiso / Perilla frutescens
bruise
Porphyra (genus of edible seaweed)
ultraviolet light
ultraviolet ray
Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
purple qipao gown, the sign of an official position
Purple Mountain in suburbs of Nanjing, with Ming tombs and Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum
a type of clay found in the region of Yixing 宜興|宜兴, used to make Yixing stoneware, with its distinctive russet or dark purple coloring
(bird species of China) purple sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus)
pansy
(bird species of China) black paradise flycatcher; Japanese paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata)
amethyst
(bird species of China) grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus)
purple choy sum (Brassica rapa var. purpurea)
Zijin, a county in Heyuan City 河源市, Guangdong
(bird species of China) violet cuckoo (Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus)
purple cloud (auspicious portent in astrology)
(bird species of China) von Schrenck's bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus)
gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori)
Ziyang County in Ankang 安康, Shaanxi
black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra)
Great Bauhinia Medal (GBM), established in 1997 as the highest award under Hong Kong's honors and awards system
amethyst
(botany) common stock; gillyflower (Matthiola incana) / (botany) violet
palace of Jade emperor (in Taoism)
(bird species of China) common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Ziyang County in Ankang 安康, Shaanxi
thousands of purples and reds (idiom); a blaze of color / fig. a profusion of flourishing trades
Zi Wei Dou Shu, a form of Chinese fortune-telling
(bird species of China) pale-capped pigeon (Columba punicea)
(botany) aster (Aster tataricus)
(bird species of China) Lord Derby's parakeet (Psittacula derbiana)
(bird species of China) chestnut-cheeked starling (Agropsar philippensis)
to get red and swollen
white amaranth, purple eggplant (idiom); common foodstuff, unpretentious lifestyle
red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)
edible seaweed of genus Porphyra or genus Pyropia, esp. one used to make dried sheets of nori
coneflower genus (Echinacea)
dark reddish purple
grayish purple color
wisteria
Hong Kong orchid (Bauhinia blakeana)
crape myrtle
(botany) Aster altaicus
(bird species of China) yellow-billed nuthatch (Sitta solangiae)
(bird species of China) blue whistling thrush (Myophonus caeruleus)
your appearance (honorific)
Chinese violet (Viola mandsurica)
sable (Martes zibellina)
porphyria (medicine)
Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party 1987-1989, held under house arrest from 1989 to his death, and non-person since then
purple
gentian violet
(bird species of China) purple cochoa (Cochoa purpurea)
Zipingpu Dam, Sichuan
Purple Mountain Observatory
golden seal at the waist, purple gown (idiom); in official position
Ziyun Miao and Buyei Autonomous County, in Anshun City 安順市|安顺市, Guizhou
(bird species of China) ruby-cheeked sunbird (Chalcoparia singalensis)
(bird species of China) Taiwan whistling thrush (Myophonus insularis)
Zipingpu Dam, Sichuan
variant of 紫菜薹


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