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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) all directions; all around | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放, 大辯論|大辩论, 大字報|大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | forty / 40 | |
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| | April / fourth month (of the lunar year) | |
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| | (fig.) the whole world | |
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| | the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor / see 禮義廉恥|礼义廉耻 / the four directions / the four limbs (Chinese medicine) / four-dimensional | |
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| | grade 4 / fourth class / category D | |
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| | all sides | |
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| | abbr. for 四個現代化|四个现代化, Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations | |
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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | the top four | |
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| | lizard | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動|四清运动 | |
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| | Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子 | |
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| | four of a kind / quads (poker) | |
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| | to disperse / to scatter in all directions | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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| | carbon tetrachloride | |
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| | "the four pests", i.e. rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows / see also 打麻雀運動|打麻雀运动 | |
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| | tetrahedron | |
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| | Sihui, county-level city in Zhaoqing 肇慶|肇庆, Guangdong | |
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| | (idiom) fragmented; scattered; in disarray; at sixes and sevens | |
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| | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution | |
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| | (of droplets, sparks etc) to fly about in all directions / to splatter everywhere | |
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| | to radiate all around | |
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| | lit. on all sides, the songs of Chu (idiom) / fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and without help | |
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| | Siziwang banner or Dörvön-xüüxed khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | the four book depositories, namely: classics 經|经, history 史, philosophy 子, belles-lettres 集 | |
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| | to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own | |
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| | one's nearest neighbors | |
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| | Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan) | |
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| | the four limbs of the body | |
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| | nearby | |
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| | green bean / French bean / runner bean | |
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| | common name for 麋鹿, Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), which is said to resemble an amalgam of animals such as a cow, deer, donkey and horse / an odd mixture of disparate elements / hodgepodge / farrago | |
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| | everything steady and stable (idiom); overcautious and unimaginary | |
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| | never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite | |
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| | quarterback (QB) (American football) | |
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| | suburb / outskirts (of town) | |
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| | 12th April / refers to Chiang Kai-shek's coup of 12th April 1927 against the communists in Shanghai | |
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| | one's four limbs / two arms and two legs | |
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| | sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture | |
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| | nearby regions | |
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| | Siku Quanshu (collection of books compiled during Qing dynasty) | |
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| | (of a perfume or a foul odor) permeating the whole place / (of grease etc) dripping everywhere / flowing all over the place | |
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| | quartet (musical ensemble) | |
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| | Sichuan University | |
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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | Yokkaichi, city in Mie Prefecture, Japan | |
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| | one-quarter | |
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| | the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦, Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传, Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | (math.) to round up or down / to round off | |
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| | everywhere | |
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| | four-wheel drive | |
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| | the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲|平声, rising tone 上聲|上声, departing tone 去聲|去声 and entering tone 入聲|入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin | |
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| | Sichuan basin | |
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| | the four great Chinese inventions: paper, printing, magnetic compass and gunpowder | |
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| | silicon tetrafluoride SiF4 | |
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| | chariot | |
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| | Sichuan International Studies University (SISU) | |
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| | four-leaf clover | |
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| | lit. the four elements are vanity (idiom) / this world is an illusion | |
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| | four seasons beancurd | |
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| | the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施, Wang Zhaojun 王昭君, Diaochan 貂蟬|貂蝉 and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环 | |
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| | wheel alignment (automobile maintenance) | |
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| | all men are brothers | |
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| | lit. four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom) / fig. to achieve much with little effort | |
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| | Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong) | |
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| | four-by-four (vehicle) / 4x4 | |
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| | Sihui, county-level city in Zhaoqing 肇慶|肇庆, Guangdong | |
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| | (of two people) to look into each other's eyes | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old) | |
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| | the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道|苦集灭道: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 | |
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| | (geometry) quadrangle; quadrilateral | |
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| | four divinities / four divine emperors / four mythical creatures symbolic of prosperity and longevity, namely the phoenix 鳳|凤, turtle 龜|龟, dragon 龍|龙 and Chinese unicorn 麒麟 / also 四象, the four division of the sky | |
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| | Siziwang banner or Dörvön-xüüxed khoshuu in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | four corner code (input method for Chinese characters) | |
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| | crotchet (music) | |
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| | quadriceps muscle group / thigh muscles | |
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| | boxer shorts | |
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| | Tetrahydrocannabinol, THC | |
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| | Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology / abbr. to 四化 | |
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| | Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu 成都市 (abbr. to 川 or 蜀) | |
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| | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍 | |
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| | four generations under one roof (idiom) | |
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| | four great basin depressions of China, namely: Tarim 塔里木盆地 in south Xinjiang, Jungar 準葛爾盆地|准葛尔盆地 and Tsaidam or Qaidam 柴達木盆地|柴达木盆地 in north Xinjiang Sichuan 四川盆地 | |
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| | to scatter in all directions | |
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