| | li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇 and neighborhood 鄰|邻 levels | HSK 1 |
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| | where? / somewhere / anywhere / wherever / nowhere (negative answer to question) / humble expression denying compliment | HSK 1 |
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| | where? / somewhere / anywhere / wherever / nowhere (negative answer to question) / humble expression denying compliment / also written 哪裡|哪里 | HSK 1 |
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| | kilometer | HSK 2 |
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| | in hand / (a situation is) in sb's hands | HSK 4 |
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| | here | HSK 1 |
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| | there; that place | HSK 1 |
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| | chest / heart; mind | HSK 2 |
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| | during the night / at night / nighttime | HSK 2 |
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| | there; that place | HSK 1 |
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| | home | HSK 1 |
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| | lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里 | HSK 1 |
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| | inside | HSK 1 |
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| | Li (surname) | |
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| | inside; interior | HSK 2 |
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| | inside / interior / also pr. [li3 mian5] | HSK 3 |
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| | lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress | |
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| | Madrid, capital of Spain | |
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| | Sanlitun (Beijing street name) | |
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| | thousand miles distant | |
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| | as if lost in a thick fog (idiom) / in a fog / muddled / completely unfamiliar with sth | |
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| | Tigris River, Iraq | |
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| | to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books | |
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| | lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step / fig. big accomplishments come from an accumulation of little achievements made one by one | |
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| | in front / in advance of the field | |
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| | messy / slovenly / unkempt | |
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| | calorie (loanword) | |
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| | suddenly; unexpectedly | |
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| | lit. read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom) / fig. acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience | |
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| | long-winded / verbose | |
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| | lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (proverb) / fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it | |
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| | mouth / in the mouth / on one's lips / speech / words | |
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| | Sri Lanka | |
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| | gaudy / flashy (but without substance) | |
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| | lit. ten thousand mile horse / fine steed | |
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| | (to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Wanli, a district of Nanchang City 南昌市, Jiangxi | |
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| | eccentric / odd-looking / peculiar | |
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| | milestone | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Saint Patrick | |
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| | goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it. | |
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| | a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses | |
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| | Lyon, French city on the Rhône | |
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| | lit. no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / fig. one does not expect fine words from a scoundrel | |
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| | to be able to plan victory from a thousand miles away (idiom) | |
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| | orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) / "chicken butt", popular Taiwan snack on a stick, made of marinated "white cut chicken" butt | |
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| | In the eyes of the lover, a famous beauty (idiom). Beauty in the eye of the beholder | |
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| | li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters) | |
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| | Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician | |
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| | lit. in the eyes of a lover appears 西施 (idiom); fig. beauty is in the eye of the beholder | |
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| | Bali or Pali township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan | |
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| | secretly; inwardly; on the sly | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Tarim Basin depression in southern Xinjiang | |
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| | square kilometer | |
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| | (idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar | |
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| | Adriatic Sea | |
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| | one's home town or village | |
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| | you're too kind; you flatter me | |
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| | to know the score (idiom) / to be well aware of the situation | |
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| | embrace / bosom | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Lilongwe, capital of Malawi (Tw) | |
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| | Christian Bale (1974-), English actor | |
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| | Hoh Xil or Kekexili, vast nature reserve on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原 | |
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| | Taimali township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan | |
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| | Crimea | |
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| | beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level | |
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| | lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye | |
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| | mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km) | |
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| | Jiali, a district in Tainan 台南, Taiwan | |
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| | Tarim River of Xinjiang | |
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| | the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom) / a miss is as good as a mile | |
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| | goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it / also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛 | |
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| | New Delhi, capital of India | |
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| | village / hamlet | |
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| | amidst the clouds and mist / (fig.) mystified / puzzled | |
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| | to have secret motives / to have a guilty conscience | |
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| | make light of traveling a thousand li / go to the trouble of traveling a long distance | |
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| | Calabria, southernmost Italian province | |
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| | Patrick (name) | |
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| | Diocletian (c. 245-311), Roman emperor | |
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| | sweet and sour pork | |
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| | Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters | |
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| | (name) Ali / Ali (c. 600–661), the fourth caliph of Islam / Alibaba, e-commerce company (abbr. for 阿里巴巴) / see 阿里地區|阿里地区 | |
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| | the inside | |
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| | Mauritius | |
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| | Chelyabinsk town on the eastern flanks of Ural, on trans-Siberian railway | |
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| | Florida | |
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| | the Kremlin | |
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| | publicly; outwardly; professedly | |
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| | a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom) | |
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| | Northern Mariana Islands | |
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| | lit. an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom) / fig. huge damage may result from a moment's negligence | |
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| | village | |
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| | Shuili Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan | |
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| | a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses | |
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