| | to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk | HSK 2 |
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| | damask silk / variant of 傘｜伞 | HSK 4 |
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| | to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances) | HSK 5 |
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| | raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever | HSK 7-9 |
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| | silk / thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips / classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc | HSK 7-9 |
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| | silk banner (as an award or gift) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (textiles) to scour / to degum (silk) / variant of 精煉｜精炼 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | silk (cloth) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom) / fig. to turn hostility into friendship | |
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| | to drape sb in red silk as a sign of honor | |
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| | to spin (cotton or hemp etc) / fine woven silk fabric | |
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| | orange-red silk / orange-red colored | |
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| | the Silk Road | |
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| | money / coins / currency / silk | |
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| | fine floss-silk or cotton | |
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| | Yangguan or Southern Pass on the south Silk Road in Gansu, 70 km south of Dunhuang 敦煌 | |
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| | beautiful / open-work silk | |
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| | silk thread (for sewing); silk yarn (for weaving) | |
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| | silk / pure silk | |
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| | to classify / to twist silk / silk thread | |
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| | red silk | |
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| | satin / silk fabric | |
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| | thin, tough silk fabric | |
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| | dark red / purple silk | |
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| | headscarf / kerchief / silk neckband | |
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| | silk screen / screen (printing) | |
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| | silk brocade bag, used in ancient times to hold poetry manuscripts and other precious items / (fig.) tip (a piece of practical advice) | |
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| | white / white silk | |
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| | beautiful silk fabrics / person in beautiful silk dress | |
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| | lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经); fig. to plan ahead / to prepare for a rainy day | |
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| | brocade / silk fabric with colored pattern | |
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| | to spin silk | |
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| | to spin synthetic fiber / to spin silk / spinning / filature | |
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| | raw silk | |
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| | Buddhists / black silk / dark | |
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| | to boil raw silk (to soften and clean it) | |
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| | natural silk (secreted by silkworm) | |
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| | Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu | |
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| | Loulan, aka Kroraina, ancient oasis town on the Silk Road near Lop Nor 羅布泊｜罗布泊 | |
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| | (of spiders, caterpillars, silkworms etc) to extrude silk | |
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| | to wash silk | |
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| | plain white silk | |
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| | plain thin silk / slow / unadorned | |
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| | fine silk / Kangxi radical 120 | |
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| | silk floss / down | |
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| | crimson silk / deficiency / to stitch | |
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| | silk fabrics | |
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| | "silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅｜红, 綠｜绿, 累 etc / also pr. [mi4] | |
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| | rough-textured fabric of waste silk | |
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| | (literary) light blue / (literary) light blue silk fabric | |
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| | painting on silk | |
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| | thick waterproof silk | |
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| | (idiom) silk and satin | |
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| | the cap of a pen, pencil or writing brush / the sheath of a pen (made of cloth, silk or thread) | |
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| | kesi or k’o-ssu, Chinese silk tapestry woven in a pictorial design | |
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| | to paste materials (such as paper, fabric or silk) onto walls or artworks for decoration or preservation | |
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| | fine silk gauze | |
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| | Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) / tree rhododendron (Rhododendron delavayi) | |
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| | silk fabric / silk / CL: 匹 | |
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| | lit. a needle concealed in silk floss (idiom) / fig. ruthless character behind a gentle appearance / a wolf in sheep's clothing / an iron fist in a velvet glove | |
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| | silk ribbon or braid / lace or embroidery used for hemming | |
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| | bamboo and silk writing materials (before paper) | |
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| | bright / glossy (of silk) | |
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| | silk | |
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| | silk braided cord | |
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| | to reel silk from cocoons | |
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| | silk floss / continuous / soft / weak / mild-mannered (dialect) | |
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| | Ikat, a type of woven silk / Kasuri | |
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| | error / carelessness / spoiled silk | |
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| | silk headband / Taiwan pr. [shi3] | |
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| | red silk crest of helmet | |
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| | white silk mourning dress | |
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| | purple silk | |
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| | pay an advance / silk book cover | |
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| | to reel silk from cocoons | |
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| | lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom) / fig. to try to help but end up making things worse | |
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| | lit. cloth, silk, beans and grain (idiom) / fig. food and clothing; daily necessities | |
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| | type of coarse silk / bag used to wrap silk before washing | |
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| | feet and legs in silk stockings (especially in the massage context) | |
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| | rough, indelicate silk | |
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| | ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲｜丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music | |
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| | lit. to unwind the silk thread from the cocoon (idiom) / fig. to unravel a mystery; to painstakingly follow the clues to eventually get to the bottom of the matter | |
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| | cloth and silk / cotton and silk textiles | |
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| | silk waistband | |
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| | to weave / to lay warp for weaving / silk thread for weaving / variant of 紉｜纫, to sew / to stitch / thread | |
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| | (dial.) silk floss | |
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| | silk thread | |
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| | silk gland | |
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| | book bag made of silk | |
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| | silk material with grained pattern | |
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| | Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road | |
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| | filature silk | |
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| | Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo) | |
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| | silk ribbon / silk braid | |
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| | Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路｜丝绸之路 | |
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