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| | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / gossip / gossipy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900 | |
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| | Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination | |
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| | August / eighth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | 8:00 p.m. time slot (on television) / (Tw) (coll.) television drama series that airs in the prime time slot of 8:00 p.m. | |
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| | (bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) | |
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| | anise / star anise / aniseed / octagonal / Fructus Anisi stellati | |
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| | lit. the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing his own special talent (idiom) / fig. (of each individual in a group) to give full play to one's unique capabilities | |
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| | eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties | |
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| | musical box | |
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| | Bagua Mountain, Taiwan | |
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| | (fig.) a long time | |
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| | eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics | |
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| | the eight influential points (acupuncture) | |
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| | (coll.) unrelated; lacking any connection | |
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| | Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) | |
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| | "the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, abbr. for 八大元老 | |
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| | step with feet splayed outwards | |
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| | eighty percent / most probably / most likely | |
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| | octagon | |
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| | one eighth | |
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| | Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year | |
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| | Ba Jia Jiang, the eight generals that guard the godly realm in Taiwanese folklore, represented by troupes of dancers in temple processions / (slang) lowlife gangster or young hoodlum, often written as "8+9", [ba1 jia1 jiu3] | |
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| | bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis | |
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| | quaver / eighth note | |
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| | the eight precepts (Buddhism) | |
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| | octal | |
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| | an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing | |
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| | Chinese anise / star anise / Fructus Anisi Stellati | |
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| | sloping eyebrows, formed like character for "eight" | |
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| | Ba Ji Quan "Eight Extremes Fist" - Martial Art | |
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| | rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc | |
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| | the eight points of the compass / all directions | |
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| | pretty close / very near / about right | |
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| | the Eight-fold Noble Way (Buddhism) | |
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| | old-fashioned square table to seat eight people | |
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| | (TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction | |
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| | lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八 has been written (idiom) / fig. things have not even gotten started yet; nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet | |
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| | Bagongshan, a district of Huainan City 淮南市, Anhui | |
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| | eight-section brocade, a traditional eight-part sequence of qigong exercises | |
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| | lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet | |
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| | splayfoot | |
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| | the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology) | |
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| | grade 8 worker (highest on the eight grade wage scale) / top-grade worker | |
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| | Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金｜后金 from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty | |
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| | octavo | |
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| | baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing) | |
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| | Eight Banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911 | |
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| | formal recommendation letter in eight columns | |
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| | octopus | |
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| | palanquin with eight carriers / (fig.) lavish treatment | |
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| | eight-hour working day | |
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| | child of a Manchu bannerman family (nobility) / (fig.) privileged brat | |
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| | eight grade wage scale (system) | |
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| | lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae) | |
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| | mustache shaped like character 八 | |
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| | the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism) | |
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| | ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲｜丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music | |
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| | force 8 wind / fresh gale | |
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| | Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet | |
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| | sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship | |
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| | alangium | |
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| | Bagongshan, a district of Huainan City 淮南市, Anhui | |
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| | lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet | |
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| | Barkhor, pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet | |
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| | Babu district of Hezhou city 賀州市｜贺州市, Guangxi | |
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| | divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date | |
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| | Yaohan retail group | |
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| | (sports) top eight / quarterfinals | |
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| | octave | |
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| | Octopus (Hong Kong smart card system for electronic payments) | |
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| | Yamata no Orochi, serpent with eight heads and eight tails from mythological section of Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) | |
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| | octoploid | |
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| | 15th August, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in 1945 | |
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| | meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese) | |
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| | quarterfinals | |
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| | octagon | |
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| | pug (breed of dog) | |
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| | six pack (abdominal muscles) | |
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| | the eight stages of the Buddha's life (Buddhism) | |
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| | Bye bye! (in chat room and text messages) | |
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| | (bird species of China) plaintive cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus) | |
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| | eight-treasure decoction, tonic formula used in Chinese medicine | |
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| | Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in the Haein Temple 海印寺 in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea | |
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| | Octopus card (Hong Kong smart card for electronic payments) | |
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| | baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing) | |
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| | G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations) | |
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| | shape resembling the character 八 or 8 / V-shape / splayed / figure of eight | |
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| | eight surges (a group of eight acupoints in Chinese acupuncture, namely PC-9, TB-1, HT-9 and LV-3, bilaterally) | |
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| | traditional-style canopy bed | |
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| | Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet, aka 八廓街 | |
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| | eight-to-two powder (TCM) | |
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