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HSK
inner quality / basic essence
HSK 6
(personal) accomplishment / attainment in self-cultivation
HSK 7-9
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raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever
HSK 7-9
source material (in literature and art)
HSK 7-9
sketch
HSK 7-9
vegetarian food / to eat a vegetarian diet
HSK 7-9
to be total strangers (idiom)
HSK 7-9
consistently; always (in the past and now)
untrained, inexperienced person; layman; amateur / ordinary person; non-celebrity
a face without makeup
vegetarian chicken, a soybean product
white hand / empty-handed
face (of a woman) without makeup / solid color (unpatterned)
vegetarian food
vegetable dish
lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice
simple yet elegant
vegetarian feast / food offerings to Buddha
ordinarily / usually
simple / unadorned / unsophisticated / naive
(idiom) to have never met sb before; entirely unacquainted
vegetable noodle dish
vegetarian
vegetarianism
vegetarian meat substitute
(idiom) to have never met / to be complete strangers
to have / to have always had
so uneducated! / so ignorant!
all-round education (as opposed to exam-oriented education 應試教育|应试教育)
unable to get along (idiom)
prime number
usually
simple and neat / quiet (colors) / unobtrusive / (of food) light / not greasy or strongly flavored
vegan leather
vegetable filling


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