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HSK
image / form / figure / CL: 個|个 / visualization / vivid
HSK 3
target; object / partner; boyfriend; girlfriend / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
impression (sth that stays in one's mind) / a memory
HSK 3
meteorological condition; weather / meteorology / atmosphere; ambience; scene
HSK 5
elephant / CL: 頭|头
HSK 5
to imagine; to envision / imagination
HSK 4
emblem / symbol / token / badge / to symbolize / to signify / to stand for
HSK 5
sign; indication; mark; indicator
HSK 7-9
scene / sight (to behold)
HSK 5
Vientiane, capital of Laos
every manifestation of nature
phenomenon / CL: 個|个, 種|种 / appearance
HSK 3
China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
abstract / abstraction / CL: 種|种
HSK 7-9
chess / CL:
impressionism
pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
(in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom)
atavism (biology)
strange phenomenon
stereotype
image / imagery
false appearance / facade
partner for dating / a date (boyfriend or girlfriend)
aspect of the celestial bodies (used for navigation and astrology)
Chinese chess / CL:
imagination
points gained by making a good impression / kudos / brownie points
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
illusion
(brand or organization) ambassador / face (of a brand or company)
onomatopoeia
to seek a marriage partner / looking for a mate
unreasonable / shocking; outrageous
phenomenal
impressionism
all-embracing / all-inclusive
weather bureau / meteorological office
weather station
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elephant / CL: 隻|只 / shape / form / appearance / to imitate
ivory / elephant tusk
sign / symptom
to touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)
pictogram / one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
celluloid
wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics
Chinese chess tournament
abstract thought / logical thinking
walrus
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
dangers spring up all around (idiom); surrounded by perils
chaos / madness
Document Object Model (DOM)
weather satellite
meteorological office
abstract word
lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / fig. one does not expect fine words from a scoundrel
symbolism
star chart / also written 星相圖|星相图
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Xiangzhou, a county in Laibin City 來賓市|来宾市, Guangxi
symbolic / emblem / token
meteorological or astronomical phenomenon (e.g. rainbow or eclipse)
multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武
abstract algebra
drought
symptom
(religion) a vision / strange phenomenon
ivory tower
hysteresis
meteorology
to meet a possible marriage partner
natural phenomenon
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast (Tw)
(slang) elephant
to be just like
symptom (of a disease)
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive)
weevil / snout beetle
quadrant (in coordinate geometry)
a meteorologist
pictogram / hieroglyph
to make a deeper impression on sb
planetarium projector
meteorological office / weather forecasting office
woolly mammoth
tangible image / concrete / representational (art)
weather station
object oriented language
to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly
phenomenological
to have a recollection (of sb or sth) / to remember
to form an image / to call to mind
stinkbug
mammoth
hemogram / picture of blood used in medical research
observatory / observation platform

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