|  | money wrapped in red as a gift  / bonus payment  / kickback  / bribe   | HSK 4  | 
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 |  | red (color)  / revolutionary   | HSK 2  | 
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 |  | red wine   | HSK 3  | 
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 |  | five-starred red flag (PRC national flag)   |  | 
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 |  | tomato   | HSK 5  | 
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 |  | dividend  / to award a bonus   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) white-throated redstart (Phoenicurus schisticeps)   |  | 
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 |  | lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom)  / fig. a wife having an illicit lover   |  | 
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 |  | Hong'an, a county in Huanggang City  黃岡市|黄冈市, Hubei   |  | 
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 |  | very red  / red through and through  / to blush (deep red)   | HSK 6  | 
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 |  | band of mounted bandits in Manchuria (archaic)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) red-necked stint (Calidris ruficollis)   |  | 
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 |  | red shift (astronomy)   |  | 
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 |  | sweet potato   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | Indian azalea (Rhododendron simsii)   |  | 
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 |  | to become popular overnight   |  | 
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 |  | to hit the big time   |  | 
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 |  | the sun   |  | 
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 |  | pink   |  | 
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 |  | flushed with anger (or excitement)   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | red wood  / mahogany  / rosewood  / padauk   |  | 
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 |  | REDnote (Chinese social networking platform)   |  | 
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 |  | to covet  / envious  / jealous  / green with envy  / infuriated  / furious   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | to become infuriated  / to see red  / envious  / jealous  / covetous  / pink eye (conjunctivitis)  / red-eye (flight)(photography) red eye   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | prosperous   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | vermilion   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin  曹雪芹, one of the four great novels   |  | 
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 |  | beautiful feminine attire  / (fig.) young woman   |  | 
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 |  | heart ♥ (in card games)  / red, heart-shaped symbol  / bullseye   |  | 
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 |  | Red Army (1928-1937), predecessor of the PLA  / (Soviet) Red Army (1917-1946)   |  | 
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 |  | Man Jiang Hong (Chinese poems)   |  | 
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 |  | lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking  / debauched and corrupt environment   |  | 
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 |  | Honggang, a district of Daqing City  大慶市|大庆市, Heilongjiang   |  | 
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 |  | red braised pork   |  | 
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 |  | (idiom) to see through the illusions of the material world (often a precursor to becoming a Buddhist monk or nun); to become disillusioned with human society   |  | 
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 |  | matchmaker   |  | 
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 |  | when the enemies come face to face, their eyes blaze with hatred (idiom)   |  | 
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 |  | traffic light  / traffic signal   |  | 
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 |  | infrared ray   |  | 
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 |  | the "Little Red Book" of selected writings of Mao Zedong (refers to  毛主席語錄|毛主席语录)   |  | 
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 |  | Internet celebrity; influencer  / (attributive) popular on the Internet   |  | 
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 |  | femme fatale   |  | 
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 |  | red meat   |  | 
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 |  | Hongsibao district of Wuzhong city  吳忠市|吴忠市, Ningxia   |  | 
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 |  | ruddy  / rosy  / florid   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | (literary) the feminine arts (e.g. needlework)   |  | 
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 |  | to turn red (in the face)  / to flush (with embarrassment or anger)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea)   |  | 
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 |  | red card (sports)   |  | 
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 |  | red supergiant (star)   |  | 
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 |  | poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)   |  | 
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 |  | red-orange color  / dark orange   |  | 
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 |  | close female friend  / confidante   |  | 
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 |  | to blush   |  | 
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 |  | Hongshan, a district of Chifeng City  赤峰市, Inner Mongolia   |  | 
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 |  | Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou  張藝謀|张艺谋  |  | 
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 |  | ruby   |  | 
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 |  | rouge and powder  / (fig.) the fair sex   |  | 
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 |  | Little Red Riding Hood   |  | 
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 |  | scarlet (color)   |  | 
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 |  | red bean paste   |  | 
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 |  | an expensive type of oolong tea   |  | 
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 |  | if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes   |  | 
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 |  | Hongqi, a district of Xinxiang City  新鄉市|新乡市, Henan   |  | 
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 |  | red star  / five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat  / hot film star   |  | 
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 |  | chili oil   |  | 
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 |  | Red Bull (energy drink)   |  | 
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 |  | (bird species of China) common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)   |  | 
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 |  | Internet celebrity   |  | 
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 |  | to win instant success (idiom)  / to become an instant hit   |  | 
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 |  | bright-colored  / garish   |  | 
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 |  | infrared spectrum   |  | 
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 |  | red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet (the colors of the rainbow)   |  | 
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 |  | red-eye flight   |  | 
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 |  | pink bollworm  / Pectinophora gassypiella   |  | 
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 |  | (medicine) erythema   |  | 
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 |  | "Redology", academic field devoted to the study of A Dream of Red Mansions   |  | 
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 |  | azuki bean; red bean   |  | 
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 |  | the Red Turbans, peasant rebellion at the end of the Yuan dynasty   |  | 
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 |  | rooibos tea   |  | 
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 |  | Red Cross   |  | 
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 |  | magenta; fuschia   |  | 
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 |  | to play the role of the hero (idiom)  / to play the good cop   |  | 
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 |  | infrared (ray)   |  | 
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 |  | red phosphorus   |  | 
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 |  | brown sugar   |  | 
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 |  | to blush  / to redden (with shame, indignation etc)   |  | 
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 |  | (coll.) to bleed (esp. vaginal bleeding)  / to suffer a financial loss   |  | 
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 |  | red  / rosy  / flushed   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | printing portions of a page (e.g. a banner headline) in red (or other color)   |  | 
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 |  | not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)  / not to distinguish between right and wrong   |  | 
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 |  | (economics) demographic dividend   |  | 
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 |  | lit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom)  / fig. beautiful flowers   |  | 
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 |  | Zhu Hongdeng, one of the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion   |  | 
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