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| | triangle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | over and over again (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | At the Crossroads, famous opera, based on a story from 水滸傳｜水浒传 | |
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| | surname San | |
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| | see 3C[san1 C] | |
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| | (neologism) the three core personal values: worldview ( 世界觀｜世界观), view of life ( 人生觀｜人生观) and value system ( 價值觀｜价值观) | |
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| | (slang) threesome | |
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| | the Third (of numbered kings) | |
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| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中｜罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備｜刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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| | the three spring months | |
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| | melamine C3H6N6 | |
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| | three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿｜司马懿 and his two sons); conspirators under the same roof | |
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| | Sanyuan County in Xianyang 咸陽｜咸阳, Shaanxi | |
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| | several / three or five | |
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| | triplets | |
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| | triphthong (such as putonghua uei etc) | |
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| | regular men's haircut / short back and sides | |
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| | Tripitaka, the three main types of text that collectively constitute the Buddhist canon of scriptures: sutras, commandments and commentaries | |
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| | (bird species of China) meadow bunting (Emberiza cioides) | |
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| | (lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓｜邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗｜吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1] | |
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| | "Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951-52 | |
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| | Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅｜新罗 in 658 | |
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| | (idiom) reluctant to speak about it / tight-lipped | |
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| | (TCM) the three truncal cavities (thoracic, abdominal and pelvic), known as the "triple heater" or "San Jiao" | |
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| | air ball (basketball) | |
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| | cube (third power, math.) | |
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| | briefs / panties | |
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| | triangle | |
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| | International Women's Day 婦女節｜妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid | |
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| | third-rate / inferior | |
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| | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom / wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual | |
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| | Samsung (South Korean electronics company) / Sanxing or Sanhsing Township in Yilan County 宜蘭縣｜宜兰县, Taiwan | |
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| | three major stars of the Three Stars 參宿｜参宿 Chinese constellation / the belt of Orion / three spirits 福, 祿｜禄, and 壽｜寿 associated with the Three Stars 參宿｜参宿 Chinese constellation | |
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| | lacking three key attributes (or at least one of them) | |
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| | the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom) / (courteous language) it's my good fortune... | |
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| | thirty / 30 | |
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| | BWH, abbr. for a woman's three measurements, namely: bust 胸圍｜胸围, waist 腰圍｜腰围 and hip 臀圍｜臀围 | |
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| | 3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination / (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三級甲等｜三级甲等) | |
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| | grade 3 / third class / category C | |
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| | March / third month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | Sanyō, Japanese electronics company | |
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| | Ku Klux Klan / KKK | |
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| | Samadhi (Buddhist term) | |
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| | in twos and threes | |
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| | superglue | |
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| | the Three Precious Treasures of Buddhism, namely: the Buddha 佛, the Dharma 法 (his teaching), and the Sangha 僧 (his monastic order) | |
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| | delta (geography) | |
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| | in groups of three or four (idiom) | |
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| | three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography | |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話｜评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | syllogism (deduction in logic) | |
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| | Santai county in Mianyang 綿陽｜绵阳, north Sichuan | |
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| | T-joint / T-piece / T-pipe / three links | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | triode (vacuum tube or transistor) | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | Sanmen county in Taizhou 台州, Zhejiang | |
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| | auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family | |
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| | three-section staff (old-style weapon) | |
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| | sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra | |
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| | the sun, the moon, and the stars | |
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| | Holy Trinity / trinity | |
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| | the three legendary sovereigns of the third millennium BC: Suiren 燧人, Fuxi 伏羲 and Shennong 神農｜神农, or 天皇, 地皇 and 人皇 | |
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| | (idiom) to form a tripartite balance of power | |
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| | (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force | |
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| | lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts | |
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| | thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius) | |
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| | Mitsui (Japanese company) | |
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| | name of "water" radical 氵 in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85) | |
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| | (idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night | |
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| | three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation | |
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| | two or three | |
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| | three types of waste product, namely: waste water 廢水｜废水, exhaust gas 廢氣｜废气, industrial slag 廢渣｜废渣 | |
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| | Suntory, Japanese beverage company | |
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| | Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago) | |
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| | Sanyuan, a district of Sanming City 三明市, Fujian | |
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| | lit. twice every three days (idiom); practically every day / frequently | |
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| | "three-guarantee service": repair, exchange, refund | |
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| | melamine C3H6N6 | |
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| | the Three Represents, a set of three guiding principles for the CCP introduced by Jiang Zemin 江澤民｜江泽民 in 2000 and enshrined in the Constitution in 2004 | |
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| | sb with only rudimentary skills (in a particular area) | |
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| | in two minds about sth (idiom) / half-hearted / shilly-shallying | |
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| | triple jump (athletics) / hop, skip and jump | |
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| | Santimen township in Pingtung County 屏東縣｜屏东县, Taiwan | |
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