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HSK
holiday / festival / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
HSK 5
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
HSK 2
to adjust / to regulate / to harmonize / to reconcile (accountancy etc)
HSK 5
(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
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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
circumstances / plot; storyline
HSK 5
saving / to save / to use sparingly / to cut down on
HSK 4
details; particulars
HSK 4
time / season / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
syllable
HSK 2
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
season; time
HSK 6
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
festive day / holiday
HSK 7-9
ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012
(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
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
Children's Day
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
HSK 6
(diplomatic) envoy
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
joint (physiology) / key point / critical phase
HSK 7-9
(dialect) critical juncture / crucial moment / Taiwan pr. [jie2 gu5 yan3]
Bijie, prefecture-level city in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
HSK 6
Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas
HSK 6
All Saints (Christian festival)
video program
abridged version
three-section staff (old-style weapon)
jointing (agriculture)
to conserve energy; to minimize energy consumption
HSK 6
full throttle / top speed
(computing) byte / CL: 個|个
rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat
HSK 6
to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
HSK 7-9
regulator (diving)
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
chapter / section
solar term
HSK 7-9
arthritis
Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day
International Children's Day (June 1)
kilobyte
frugal; economical
HSK 7-9
public holiday
HSK 6
CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special / abbr. to 春晚
International Women's Day (March 8)
Teachers' Day (September 10th in PRC and Confucius's birthday, September 28th in Taiwan)
April Fools' Day
PRC National Day (October 1st)
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
Orchard Road, Singapore (shopping and tourist area)
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
Valentine's Day
to save on expenditure
All Saints' Eve / Halloween
to practice strict economy (idiom)
shopping festival; large-scale promotional sales event (e.g. Singles' Day 雙十一|双十一)
(idiom) diligent and thrifty
Torch Festival
to save water
HSK 7-9
to save food / to go on a diet
nunchaku (weapon with two rods joined by a short chain, used in martial arts)
Christmas (Tw)
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
Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month
Halloween
talent show / talent competition
(coll.) grudge; strife / (coll.) good manners
season's greetings (idiom)
variety show
Fengjie, a county in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
throttle pedal / accelerator
(Christianity) Epiphany
of noble character and unquestionable integrity (idiom)
betrayal / defection / turncoat / to change sides politically
to bow and scrape / to act servilely
International Women's Day (March 8)
air conditioning
branches and knots / fig. side issue / minor peripheral problem
to come apart
HSK 7-9
Beer Festival
radio program; broadcast program
Easter
Thanksgiving Day
node
Passover (Jewish holiday)
Diwali (Hindu festival)
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
Army Day (August 1)
talk show
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day
International Labor Day (May Day)

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