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| | multicolored / every color under the sun | HSK 4 |
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| | myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of | HSK 7-9 |
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| | five-star (hotel) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | metal hardware (nuts and bolts) / the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and tin 金銀銅鐵錫|金银铜铁锡 | |
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| | the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星 | |
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| | May / fifth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | 5-1 (May 1st) | |
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| | five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 | |
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| | fifty | |
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| | abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | Wuzhai county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi | |
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| | Wuhe, a county in Bengbu 蚌埠, Anhui / Punjab, a province of Pakistan | |
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| | multicolored / the rainbow / garish | |
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| | fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| | five continents / the world | |
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| | fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old) | |
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| | to bind a person's upper body, with arms tied behind the back and rope looped around the neck / to truss up | |
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| | Wuhua county in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong / Wuhua district of Kunming city 昆明市, Yunnan | |
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| | pentagon | |
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| | (music) staff / stave | |
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| | five viscera and six bowels (TCM) | |
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| | 50-50 / equal (share, partnership etc) | |
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| | all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display | |
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| | Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山 in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan | |
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| | Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang | |
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| | all parts of the country | |
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| | Wuliangye liquor / Five Grain liquor | |
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| | pentagram | |
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| | the five fingers of one's hand | |
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| | Wutai city and county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi | |
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| | Wuchang, county-level city in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang / the Permanent Five (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA) | |
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| | the five cardinal virtues in traditional Chinese ethics: benevolence 仁, justice 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and honor 信 / alternative term for 五倫|五伦, the five cardinal relationships / alternative term for 五行, the five elements | |
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| | five rings / pentacyclic (chemistry) | |
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| | five viscera of TCM, namely: heart 心, liver 肝, spleen 脾, lungs 肺 and kidneys 腎|肾 | |
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| | the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, the Book of History 書經|书经, the Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记, the Book of Changes 易經|易经, and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 | |
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| | to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb | |
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| | Wulian county in Rizhao 日照, Shandong | |
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| | abbr. for 五峰土家族自治縣|五峰土家族自治县, Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County in Hubei / Wufeng township in Hsinchu County 新竹縣|新竹县, northwest Taiwan | |
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| | five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty) | |
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| | pork belly / streaky pork | |
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| | Wudaokou neighborhood of Beijing | |
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| | five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音|齿音, 唇音 | |
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| | abundant harvest of all food crops / bumper grain harvest | |
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| | Isuzu | |
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| | Wudalianchi, county-level city in Heihe 黑河, Heilongjiang | |
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| | the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺|大庾岭, Dupang 都龐嶺|都庞岭, Qitian 騎田嶺|骑田岭, Mengzhu 萌渚嶺|萌渚岭 and Yuecheng 越城嶺|越城岭 | |
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| | Wuyuan county in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | (idiom) bright and multicolored; of rich variety; dazzling; glitzy | |
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| | the Five Legendary Emperors, usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝, Zhuanxu 顓頊|颛顼, Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾, Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧 and Yu Shun 虞舜 | |
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| | five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored | |
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| | Wutongqiao district of Leshan city 樂山市|乐山市, Sichuan | |
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| | pentagon | |
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| | burly / strapping / big and strong | |
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| | schizandra (Schisandra chinensis) / Magnolia vine | |
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| | Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces) | |
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| | memorial activity 35 days after a person's death | |
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| | five crops, e.g. millet 粟, soybean 豆, sesame 麻, barley 麥|麦, rice 稻 or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley | |
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| | abbr. for 五卅運動|五卅运动, The May Thirtieth Movement (1925) | |
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| | chest of drawers | |
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| | Wuying district of Yichun city 伊春市, Heilongjiang | |
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| | (of a person) short in stature | |
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| | (TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟|五脏, and seven to adverse effects on one's body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind) | |
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| | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 | |
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| | all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display | |
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| | all the trades / people of all trades and professions | |
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| | (Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and coriander | |
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| | Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴, Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑, Jie 羯, Di 氐, Qiang 羌, esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國|五胡十六国 | |
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| | Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China | |
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| | Acanthopanax gracilistylus | |
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| | Wuhe, a county in Bengbu 蚌埠, Anhui | |
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| | five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang | |
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| | five continents / the whole world | |
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| | wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM) / poria five powder / Hoelen five powder / five ling powder | |
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| | lit. the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / fig. the pot calls the kettle black | |
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| | five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | Wuzhi Mountain (1,840 m), highest mountain in Hainan / Wuzhishan City, Hainan | |
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| | Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊 | |
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| | the five regions: the east, south, west, north and center / all parts / China and the lands beyond its frontiers | |
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| | tone deaf / unable to sing in tune | |
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| | Five-Year Plan | |
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| | Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439) | |
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| | Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China | |
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| | one fifth | |
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| | medium (of steak) | |
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| | with complex feelings (idiom) | |
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| | Wudalianchi, county-level city in Heihe 黑河, Heilongjiang | |
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| | Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement) / Way of the Celestial Master | |
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| | five-starred red flag (PRC national flag) | |
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| | five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / cf four horsemen of the apocalypse | |
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| | Wujie or Wuchieh Township in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan | |
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| | pentagon | |
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| | May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校) | |
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| | May 7 Cadre School (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校) | |
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| | the fifth (of series of numbered kings) | |
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| | Five tombstone inscriptions (1628), written by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥 | |
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| | History of the Five Dynasties, eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls | |
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| | Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis) | |
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| | the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) | |
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| | nickel / five US cents | |
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