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HSK
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
HSK 2
syllable
HSK 2
details; particulars
HSK 4
time / season / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
HSK 6
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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
to adjust / to regulate / to harmonize / to reconcile (accountancy etc)
HSK 5
the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
HSK 5
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
HSK 6
(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
circumstances / plot; storyline
HSK 5
Mother's Day
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day
the New Year festival
All Saints (Christian festival)
accented syllable / stress
to pay respects during a festival
Children's Day
Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day
season; time
HSK 6
Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas
HSK 6
to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
HSK 7-9
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
April Fools' Day
White Day
Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off
closed syllable
International Women's Day (March 8)
(jocular) a day of frenetic online spending, such as Singles' Day
International Children's Day (June 1)
International Women's Day (March 8)
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
(computing) byte / CL: 個|个
Beer Festival
minor details / trifles
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
moral integrity / unflinching righteousness
festive day / holiday
HSK 7-9
Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14
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
joint (physiology) / key point / critical phase
HSK 7-9
off-season; out-of-season
carnival
HSK 7-9
Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month
major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character
Chinese New Year festivities
to come apart
HSK 7-9
air conditioning
Advent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)
Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month)
multibyte
knuckle
music festival
season's greetings (idiom)
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
etiquette
CCP Founding Day (July 1st)
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
chapter / section
Easter
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
International Labor Day (May Day)
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
betrayal / defection / turncoat / to change sides politically
great fast / Christian lent
Diwali (Hindu festival)
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Christian festival on 15th August)
chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy
during holidays and festivals; on festive occasions such as New Year
reputation and integrity
First Sunday of Lent
Annunciation (Christian festival on 25th March) / Lady day
arts festival
monosyllabic / a monosyllable
Passover (Jewish holiday)
to facilitate by means of bribery
see 冬至
Valentine's Day
Fiesta de Saint Fermin, festival held annually in Pamplona, Spain
Feast of the Sacred Heart
film festival / CL: 屆|届
harvest festival
Songkran (Thai New Year)
International Women's Day (March 8)
faithful (to the memory of betrothed) / constant (of widow who remains unmarried)
Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday)
flagellum
of noble character and unquestionable integrity (idiom)
Pentecost
Good Friday
lit. muscles and joints / by ext. the relations between parts in a speech, composition etc

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