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swan
HSK 7-9
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
Swan Lake
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
velvet / swan's down
swan / person with noble aspirations
Little Swan (PRC appliance brand)
(bird species of China) tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus)
black swan
black swan event
(bird species of China) whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus)
(bird species of China) mute swan (Cygnus olor)
lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom) / fig. to try to punch above one's weight
pipa strings, made from sinews of large crane or swan 鵾雞|鹍鸡
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swan
(bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides)
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom); fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
Jung Chang (1952-), British-Chinese writer, name at birth Zhang Erhong 張二鴻|张二鸿, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝|野天鹅 and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事|毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事
swan goose / (fig.) letter; message
(white) swan
lit. can the sparrow and swallow know the will of the great swan? (idiom) / fig. how can we small fry predict the ambitions of the great?


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