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firewood / lean (of meat) / thin (of a person)
diesel fuel
diesel engine
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
simple and crude cart (or chariot)
Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense) / root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM)
lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background
firewood
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
shiba inu (Japanese dog breed)
Shibata (Japanese surname and place name)
firewood
diesel-electric locomotive
diesel engine
(dialect) country girl; unsophisticated girl
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel / fig. my humble house
a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna)


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