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(literary) primordial chaos (mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe)
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eastern bean goose / great / large
swan goose / (fig.) letter; message
swan / person with noble aspirations
(fig.) gulf; chasm; wide gap / (originally) the Hong Canal in Henan, which in ancient times formed the border between enemies Chu and Han 漢|汉
(bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides)
Bochum (city in Germany)
light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling / unimportant
graceful (esp. of female posture) / lithe
lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims / starving people fill the land
a goose's footprint in the snow / vestiges of the past (idiom) / the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)
variant of 宏圖|宏图
variant of 紅運|红运
incoming letter (literary)
variant of 洪福
Hongmen feast / (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest / refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽
Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company, aka Foxconn
Wong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master
Nahum
Cui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
Book of Nahum
Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian writer known for his English-language works and defense of Qing dynasty monarchy
light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European-trained painter and influential art teacher
brown beech mushroom; brown clamshell mushroom; buna-shimeji (Hypsizygus tessulatus)
lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move
Grand Herald in imperial China, one of the Nine Ministers 九卿
Li Hung-chang or Li Hongzhang (1823-1901), Qing dynasty general, politician and diplomat
chop suey (American Chinese dish)
as weighty as Mt Tai, as light as a feather (refers to death)
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom) / fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
letter from afar (literary)
important large scale project
lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom) / fig. of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
(archaic) office in charge of ceremony and protocol


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