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  *灯* | 灯* | *灯
lamp / light / lantern / CL: 盞|盏
HSK 2
(stage) lighting / light
HSK 4
lantern
HSK 7-9
light bulb / see also 電燈泡|电灯泡 / third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
lights
lighthouse / CL:
fluorescent light
carnival during the Lantern Festival, with lantern displays and traditional folk performances such as stilt walking and lion dance
riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)
(textiles) corduroy
filament (in a lightbulb)
electric light socket / burner (component of a kerosene lamp) / light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house)
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
lamppost
cover of lamp / lampshade / glass cover of oil lamp
lantern / uncovered oil lamp
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
lampwick
rush (botany) / Juncaceae
lampstand
variant of 燈心|灯心
LED lamp bead; small light bulb
brightly lit
moth
LED strip light
bloomers / plus fours / knickerbockers
Dengta, county-level city in Liaoyang 遼陽|辽阳, Liaoning
LED strip light
lantern fish
immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
Chinese enkianthus
(lit.) it's dark right under the lamp / (fig.) people tend to overlook things right under their noses
flashing light / indicator light
cape gooseberry / Peruvian ground-cherry / Physalis peruviana
lamp wick


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