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art
HSK 3
military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
technology; technique; skill / CL: 門|门, 種|种, 項|项
HSK 3
learning / science / academic / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
(surgical) operation / surgery / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
tactics
HSK 6
art / fine arts / painting / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
information technology; IT
arithmetic
without learning or skills (idiom); ignorant and incompetent
science and technology
magic
HSK 7-9
software technology
Midas touch / golden touch
surgery
nuclear technology
high tech / high technology
HSK 7-9
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
(of a surgeon) to operate (on sb) / (of a patient) to have an operation
delaying tactics / deliberate procrastination
gene technology
automation
hypnotism / hypnotherapy / mesmerism
printing / printing technology
HSK 7-9
papermaking process
HSK 7-9
astrology
pop art (loanword)
art of politics / political tricks (often derog.) / power play / to play at politics / underhand trickery
to perform magical tricks
skillful execution and strategic planning; technical and tactical skills (abbr. for 技術|技术 + 戰術|战术)
appendectomy (medicine)
minimally invasive surgery
alchemy
(Tw) (loanword) pop art
cloning technology
skiing
cookery
network technology
high technology; high-tech
to be up to one's ears in work (idiom) / to be unable to attend to other things at the same time
(military) human wave attack
cesarean section
trick / deceit
cesarean section
nanotechnology
qiang (spear)
benevolent heart and skillful execution (idiom, from Mencius); charitable in thought and deed
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucian (idiom) / sole dominant ideology
equestrianism / horsemanship
kindness / benevolence / to govern in humanitarian way
swordsmanship
market access in return for technology transfer (PRC policy since the 1980s which gives foreign companies access to China's domestic market in exchange for sharing their intellectual property, characterized by the US in the 2019 trade war as "forced technology transfer")
folk art
composite arts / multimedia arts
lumpectomy
specious arguments / sophistry
biotechnology / abbr. to 生技
astrology
animal training / skill with animals / shoushu - "Animal skill" or "Beast-fist" - Martial Art (esp. fictional)
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
brain imaging technique
(medicine) tracheotomy
performance art
arts of healing, divination, horoscope etc / supernatural arts (old)
martial arts
coronary bypass operation
eye movement technology; eye-tracking technology
steganography
reconstructive surgery
circumcision
applied art
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
visual arts
medical expertise / art of healing
cosmetic surgery
communications technology
Chinese boxing / fisticuffs
equestrianism / horsemanship
contortion (performance art)
mind reading
astrology
martial arts involving weapons
amniocentesis
witchcraft
microencapsulation
physiognomy
(idiom) nothing can be done to remedy the situation; beyond recovery
coronary bypass operation
maker of immortality pill / concocting magic pills
ventriloquism
breast enlargement operation / boob job
dowsing
acupuncture and moxibustion (Chinese medicine)
defensive art
designs / schemes / intentions / scheming / calculating (of a person)
dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucians (slogan of the Former Han dynasty)
positron emission tomography (PET)

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