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


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