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cold (climate) / frigid / very cold
HSK 4
winter vacation
HSK 4
polar climate
cold wave / CL:
the Cambrian explosion
shiver
cold winter
Hanlu or Cold Dew, 17th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd October
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  *寒* | 寒* | *寒
cold / poor / to tremble
Cambrian geological period (541-485.4 million years ago)
ugly / shameful / to ridicule
a life of strenuous studies (idiom)
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) / the Qingming festival
(of a bladed weapon etc) to gleam coldly
a nip in the air / chilliness
to exchange conventional greetings; to exchange pleasantries
my humble home
cold air / a chill one feels in the body (when exposed to cold air)
wretched / poverty-stricken / unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
disillusioned / bitterly disappointed / terrified
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
bone chilling wind (idiom)
the chilling effect of a climate of fear in which people are afraid to speak their mind
(polite) my wife (old)
a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself) / Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia
(old) impoverished scholar
chilly weather / (loanword from Japanese) agar-agar
winter clothing
a shiver
the Cambrian explosion
Hanting district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
of humble origin
fine hair on the human body
(bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
the Cambrian explosion
Hanting district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
variant of 寒磣|寒碜


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