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HSK
screw
HSK 7-9
bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles / fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans")
HSK 7-9
silk (cloth)
HSK 7-9
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silk / thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips / classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
HSK 7-9
the slightest amount or degree / a bit
HSK 7-9
steel wire / tightrope
stockings / pantyhose
Alice (name)
the Silk Road
welding wire
silk thread (for sewing); silk yarn (for weaving)
wisps of blood / visible veins / (of eyes) bloodshot
silk / pure silk
not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules / meticulous / not one hair out of place
mycelium / hypha
(textiles) (loanword) lace
shredded meat / shredded pork
headscarf / kerchief / silk neckband
silk screen / screen (printing)
filament (in a lightbulb)
lit. spider's thread and horse track / tiny hints (of a secret) / traces / clue
linked in countless ways
wire drawing / candied floss (cooking) / spun sugar or toffee (coating)
not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked / without a stitch of clothing / in one's birthday suit
to spin silk
to not move a single jot (idiom)
to spin synthetic fiber / to spin silk / spinning / filature
traditional Chinese musical instruments / music
iron wire / CL: / subway enthusiast (abbr. for 地鐵粉絲|地铁粉丝) / railway enthusiast (abbr. for 鐵路粉絲|铁路粉丝)
natural silk (secreted by silkworm)
velvet
luffa (loofah)
ribbon
thread-like
(idiom) to fit together snugly; to dovetail perfectly
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
(of spiders, caterpillars, silkworms etc) to extrude silk
Beyoncé (1981-), American pop singer
golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
copper wire
one thread, one hair (idiom); a tiny bit / an iota
stalk (filament) of stamen
silk floss / down
hair (on the head)
gossamer / hairspring
drizzle / fine rain
hair mousse (loanword)
kesi or k’o-ssu, Chinese silk tapestry woven in a pictorial design
accurate to perfection (idiom) / precise to the finest detail
decimillimeter; 0.0001 meters
Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup
lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom) / fig. to try to help but end up making things worse
feet and legs in silk stockings (especially in the massage context)
(of food, skin, hair etc) silky; smooth / (fig.) smooth; effortless; seamless
loser (Internet slang)
Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist who reported on China, esp. the communist side
a bit chilly
lit. to unwind the silk thread from the cocoon (idiom) / fig. to unravel a mystery; to painstakingly follow the clues to eventually get to the bottom of the matter
drizzle / fine rain
tiny bit / a jot / whisker
silk waistband
the Silk Road / abbr. for 絲綢之路|丝绸之路
variant of 緙絲|缂丝
lesbian (slang) (loanword)
canary
shredded coconut
silk thread
to grate (cheese, carrots etc); to shred
spinneret
screw
cypress
silk gland
Alice in Wonderland
mousse (loanword)
axoneme (long thread of nerve cell)
screwdriver / CL:
filature silk
a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province
hulusi, aka cucurbit flute (a kind of free reed wind instrument)
hot and sour shredded potato
pork strips stir-fried with yuxiang 魚香|鱼香
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
dodder (Cuscuta sinensis, a parasitic vine with seeds used in medicine)
lace border (loanword)
fine drizzle
(lit. and fig.) to walk a tightrope
yin si juan, steamed bun from Shandong province with hand-drawn dough threads folded over
hawser / steel rope
mitosis
shredded daikon pie
sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
screwdriver
woven silk fabric
(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest
(bird species of China) red-billed starling (Spodiopsar sericeus)
gemelli (corkscrew shaped pasta)
barbed wire
die (i.e. tool for cutting wire to a given diameter)
silk raw material (prepared by boiling in soap)

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