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modest / self-effacing / to make modest remarks
HSK 6
hollow / emptiness / meaningless
HSK 7-9
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emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain
HSK 7-9
deficiency of 氣|气 (TCM)
deficiency of yang 陽|阳 (TCM)
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
to feel guilty as a thief (idiom); to have sth on one's conscience
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience
(intentionally) mysterious; arcane
(idiom) stay clear of the enemy's main force and strike at his weak points
to take advantage of weakness
to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents / to hide one's light under a bushel
to feel weak / to be diffident
deficiency of yin 陰|阴 (TCM)
Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜
(after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true
Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)
great emptiness / the void / heaven / the skies / universe / cosmos / original essence of the cosmos
that is true
to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.
depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)


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