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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
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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
circumstances / plot; storyline
HSK 5
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
festive day / holiday
HSK 7-9
(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
joint (physiology) / key point / critical phase
HSK 7-9
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)
jointing (agriculture)
(computing) byte / CL: 個|个
to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
HSK 7-9
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
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
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
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
Valentine's Day
shopping festival; large-scale promotional sales event (e.g. Singles' Day 雙十一|双十一)
Torch Festival
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
season's greetings (idiom)
(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
Easter
Thanksgiving Day
Passover (Jewish holiday)
Diwali (Hindu festival)
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
Army Day (August 1)
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)
carnival
HSK 7-9
segmented
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knuckle
Chinese New Year festivities
Songkran (Thai New Year)
Good Friday
Mother's Day
breeding season
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 哈努卡節|哈努卡节 and simply 哈努卡
(Islam) Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
nodule / tubercle
Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month)
Advent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)
(jocular) a day of frenetic online spending, such as Singles' Day
reputation and integrity
International Women's Day (March 8)
(Islam) Eid al-Fitr, festival that marks the end of Ramadan
Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off
Songkran (Thai New Year festival)
major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character
(of a high official) to temporarily reside overseas (or in another part of the country) on an official posting
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  *节* | 节* | *节
closed syllable
Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14
pure and high-minded (idiom)
Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday)
pelvis / hip joint
Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday)
to pay respects during a festival
festive season / happy time / noble principle
harvest festival
segmented
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
multibyte
White Day

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