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housefly / CL: 隻|只
HSK 7-9
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dark blue / deep green / ash-gray
the blue dome of heaven
Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky)
Cangnan county in Wenzhou 溫州|温州, Zhejiang
pale / wan
Wangcang county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元, Sichuan
firmament
ash gray / vast and hazy / flourishing
Cangwu county in Wuzhou 梧州, Guangxi
Cangxi county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元, Sichuan
verdant
Siberian cocklebur (botany)
desolate / bleak
(area where) vegetation grows / the common people
old and gray-haired
(bird species of China) Eurasian goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
(of a tree) old and strong / (of calligraphy or painting) bold; vigorous
heaven
the sky / the firmament / the vault of heaven
(bird species of China) grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
pale and feeble / powerless
boundless
lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
evergreen pine and cypress (idiom); steadfast nobility
the hazy dusk of twilight (idiom)
greenish yellow / sallow (pale or yellow complexion) / variant of 倉皇|仓皇
(fig.) the unpredictable changeability of the world; bad omen
(bird species of China) Eurasian chaffinch; common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
variant of 倉皇|仓皇
Cangnan county in Wenzhou 溫州|温州, Zhejiang
lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
Cangxi county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元, Sichuan
flyswatter
pale / wan / sickly white
(bird species of China) cinereous tit (Parus cinereus)
Musca (constellation)
headless fly (a metaphor for sb who is rushing around frantically)
white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age
gathering dusk
Wangcang county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元, Sichuan
Cangwu county in Wuzhou 梧州, Guangxi
the common people in a miserable state
(bird species of China) Gray's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes fasciolatus)
old / aged / (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous / forceful
boundless / vast / hazy (distant horizon)
lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom) / fig. no smoke without a fire
(coll.) jumping spider (which pounces on houseflies, hence the Chinese name)
black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
verdant and luxuriant


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