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


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