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While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
broccoli
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
Qingpu suburban district of Shanghai
bluestone / limestone (colloquial)
bronze (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and tin 錫|锡)
Qingyunpu, a district of Nanchang City 南昌市, Jiangxi
Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off
Capsicum annuum / green pepper
Brigitte Lin (1954-), Taiwanese actress
fresh and green / verdant
Baqên, a county in Nagqu City 那曲市, Tibet
young person / the young
lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom) / fig. innocent children's games / childhood sweethearts / a couple who grew up as childhood friends
puberty / adolescence
HSK 7-9
(of plants) to turn green again / to revegetate
Bao Qingtian, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty
youth / youthfulness
HSK 4
Communist Youth League of China / China Youth League
blue-and-green landscape (genre of landscape painting originating in the Tang dynasty, in which blues and greens predominate)
young person / youngster
the Communist Youth League, abbr. for 共產主義青年團|共产主义青年团
pachinko (loanword) (Tw)
YMCA (international Christian youth movement, formed in 1844)
celadon, classic Chinese style of ceramic glaze
bronze implement / refers to ancient bronze artifacts, from c. 2,000 BC
lit. reputation will go down in history (idiom); fig. achievements will earn eternal glory
holly
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
deep black
Daqing Mountain in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc) / to finalize / to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves)
"shit youth", sarcastic homonym for 憤青|愤青
Tsingtao Beer
the Blue House (or Cheong Wa Dae), formerly the residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul (1948–2022), now a public park
educated youth (esp. those sent to work in rural areas during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 知識青年|知识青年)
horseradish / wasabi / green mustard
acne
broccoli
bruise / contusion
lapis lazuli
adolescent / youth / teenager
HSK 2
Tsing Ma Bridge (to Hong Kong Airport)
educated youth; young intellectual / (historical) urban youth with formal education who were sent to rural areas for re-education and labor during the Cultural Revolution (1960s–70s)
remain fresh / last forever / eternal
HSK 7-9
highland barley (grown in Tibet and Qinghai) / qingke barley
green soybean / green peas
indigo
Beijing Youth Daily, newspaper founded in 1949
to rapidly go up in the world / meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)
waterlily / floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair
evergreen
ivy
Qinghai-Tibetan plateau
anthocyanidin (biochemistry)
Qingpu suburban district of Shanghai
painting
sky clears after rain / new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom) / every cloud has a silver lining (idiom) / see also 雨過天晴|雨过天晴
youth hostel / abbr. for 青年旅舍
(to look) with a direct gaze / (fig.) respect; favor
cyan / blue-green
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
Qingxiu, a district of Nanning City 南寧市|南宁市, Guangxi
mackerel shark
Nippon lily (Rohdea japonica)
chebulic myrobalan (Terminalia chebula)
(idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background
lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom) / fig. a bolt from the blue
green hills / (the good) life
Qinggil county or Chinggil nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
grass
Arteannuin (anti-malaria chemical) / Artemisinin / Qinghaosu
glaucoma
to enjoy a beautiful spring walk (idiom)
asphalt / bitumen / pitch
the prime of one's life
Qingchuan county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元, Sichuan
Aoki (Japanese surname)
(dialect) cucumber
garlic shoots and leaves
black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦
Gaoqing county in Zibo 淄博, Shandong
(of sb's face) turning alternately green and white
to tattoo / a tattoo
Ai Qing (1910-1996), Chinese poet
to enjoy the flowers on a spring outing (idiom)
my lord (respectful form of address for an official or a magistrate in imperial China)
a bloody nose and a swollen face / badly battered
to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom) / fig. the student surpasses the master
Qingdao, sub-provincial city in Shandong Province 山東省|山东省
youth / youthful years / young person / the young
HSK 2

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