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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *薄* | 薄* | *薄
thin / cold in manner / indifferent / weak / light / infertile
HSK 4
weak; frail
HSK 5
weak / frail / thin / flimsy
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *薄* | 薄* | *薄
surname Bo
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *薄* | 薄* | *薄
meager / slight / weak / ungenerous or unkind / frivolous / to despise / to belittle / to look down on / to approach or near
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *薄* | 薄* | *薄
see 薄荷
membrane / film / CL: 層|层
mint (plant) / Taiwan pr. [bo4he2]
thin flat cake / pancake / pizza
thin slice / thin section / flake / Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4]
scanty / meager
(my inferior) wine (humble term used by a host)
superficial
mist / haze
lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom) / good preparation is the key to success / to be well prepared
thickness / also pr. [hou4 bo2]
to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚此薄彼)
lit. as if walking on thin ice (idiom) / fig. extremely cautious
light (weight) / frivolous / a philanderer / to scorn / disrespectful
thin / rarefied
my humble effort / my meager contribution (humble)
unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions
dusk / twilight
small profits
thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3]
to gush / to squirt / to surge / to well out / to overflow
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
to be unduly humble (idiom) / to undervalue oneself
supremely honorable and righteous
inconstant in love / fickle
crispy / thin and brittle / a crispy fried cracker
thin paper (tissue paper, onionskin etc)
my meager gift (humble)
(idiom) lacking strength and support
sharp and unkind (words)
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
(of land) infertile / barren
my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)
meanness and generosity / intimacy and alienation
humble / meager / thin / to despise
to be on the verge of eruption (idiom) / (of the sun) to emerge in all its brilliance
meager estate / small means
feeler gauge
thin / light / flagging / faint
mean treatment / indifference / meager hospitality
to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom)
to despise / to scorn
barren land / poor soil
to favour one and discriminate against the other
garrulous and sharp-tongued
little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修)
(idiom) hasty and rude; caustic and sharp-tongued
fickle / inconstant person
dim light / early dawn
bashful / shy
barren field / poor land
meager; poor
frivolous; superficial
mint (confectionery)
at dusk / evening
peppermint oil
gauze (cloth)
to despise / to look down upon sth
small profit but rapid turnover
vast area / all the way to the sea
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Italian writer, poet, and humanist, author of Decameron 十日談|十日谈
harsh and merciless (idiom)
catnip; catmint
weak link / loophole
menthone (chemistry)
pancake
(chemistry) menthol
thin lens (optics)
foil / Taiwan pr. [jin1 shu3 bo2 pian4]
Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador to Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006
small reward (for work) / meager remuneration
lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom); hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued
to be unlucky
Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct
(idiom) frivolous
savory (herb)
lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom)
generous care but a thrifty funeral / to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral
thinning scissors
(finance) to dilute (earnings per share)
diluted earnings per share
lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom) / fig. the day is drawing to an end / the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)
lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute
peppermint
thin-skinned / sensitive
Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping
thin layer / thin slice / film / lamina / lamella
meager skill / my poor talents (humble)
at dawn
oil sheet
light silk / silk chiffon
eggshell china
to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly
variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔
thin coat, meager food (idiom); life of wretched poverty / destitute


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