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| | the head of an institution whose name ends in 院; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | orangutan / (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fish-like person in Chinese folklore whose tears turn into pearls | |
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| | Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items / (bound form) printing blocks | |
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| | red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae) | |
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| | Chinese toon (Toona sinensis), deciduous tree whose young leaves are used as a vegetable | |
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| | dwarf lilyturf (Ophiopogon japonicus), whose tuber is used in TCM | |
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| | Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan Marsh in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, whose exploits include killing a tiger with his bare hands | |
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| | Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國｜秦国, whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝 | |
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| | person / number of people / (per) capita / (a person's) head / (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account) | |
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| | to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白) | |
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| | Houyi, mythological Chinese archer whose wife was Chang'e | |
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| | god of longevity / elderly person whose birthday is being celebrated | |
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| | player whose turn comes next (in a game) / next one / my humble home | |
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| | (literary) writer whose works are venerated as exemplary; eminent writer | |
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| | lit. at whose hand will the deer die (idiom) / fig. who will emerge victorious | |
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| | to enter a park or other place for public recreation (typically, one whose name ends in 園｜园: a zoo 動物園｜动物园, amusement park 遊樂園｜游乐园 etc) / to enrol in a kindergarten 幼兒園｜幼儿园 / to start going to kindergarten | |
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| | person who is crying their eyes out, whose face is wet with tears | |
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| | beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM | |
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| | Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented | |
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| | surname Guo / Guo, a kinship group whose members held dukedoms within the Zhou Dynasty realm, including Western Guo 西虢國｜西虢国 and Eastern Guo 東虢國｜东虢国 | |
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| | legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison / poisonous / to poison sb | |
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| | Miscellaneous School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocate was Lü Buwei 呂不韋｜吕不韦 | |
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| | Husain or Hussein (name) / Hussein (c. 626-680), Muslim leader whose martyrdom is commemorated at Ashura / Saddam Hussein al Tikriti (1937-2006), dictator of Iraq 1979-2003 | |
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| | (literary) mythical creature resembling a tiger whose image was painted on prison doors / (literary) prison | |
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| | Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup | |
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| | (archaic) a kind of tree whose timber was used to make ceremonial tablets 笏 | |
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| | Dragon Man, the nickname of the individual whose fossilized cranium was discovered in Heilongjiang in 1933, thought to be a Denisovan 丹尼索瓦人 or a new species of extinct human, Homo longi | |
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| | (literary) (botany) (a species of linden whose timber was used to make coffins in ancient times) | |
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| | Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as writing media | |
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| | pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras | |
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| | pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras | |
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| | konjac, konnyaku or devil's tongue (Amorphophallus konjac), plant whose corms are used to make a stiff jelly (as a food) | |
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| | public prosecutor; public procurator (judicial officer whose job may involve both criminal investigation and public prosecution) | |
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| | Li Ling (-74 BC), Han dynasty general whose defeat by the Xiongnu 匈奴 in 104 BC led to a major scandal | |
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| | red phoenix eyes (eyes whose outer corners incline upwards) | |
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| | Stevia, South American sunflower genus / sugarleaf (Stevia rebaudiana), bush whose leaves produce sugar substitute | |
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| | criminal whose arrest has been ordered by the emperor | |
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| | heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body | |
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| | "left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them | |
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| | Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals) | |
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| | School of Diplomacy of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocates were Su Qin 蘇秦｜苏秦 and Zhang Yi 張儀｜张仪 | |
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| | uncompleted building; building whose construction has run into difficulties and stopped | |
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| | old and respected family / family whose members have been officials from generation to generation | |
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| | Primorsky Krai (Russian territory whose administrative center is Vladivostok 符拉迪沃斯托克) | |
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| | appellee (side that won in trial court, whose victory is being appealed by losing side) | |
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| | great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis), a plant whose root is used in TCM / (old) (courteous) your letter | |
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| | Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM | |
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| | Puebla, a city southeast of Mexico City / term used to refer to plants whose specific epithet is pueblensis, such as Tillandsia pueblensis (an air plant) and Echeveria pueblensis (a succulent) | |
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| | Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公｜晋文公, in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明 (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated | |
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| | iron-cap prince in the Qing dynasty whose title can be passed on to subsequent generations without alteration | |
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| | child whose birthday is being celebrated / birthday boy / birthday girl | |
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| | Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker) | |
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| | Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented | |
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| | Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭｜楼兰 | |
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| | Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842 | |
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| | Pirate Party, political movement whose main goal is to reform copyright law in line with the Internet era | |
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| | Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption | |
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| | pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras | |
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| | black box / fig. system whose internal structure is unknown | |
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| | (slang) social media post whose purpose is to humblebrag | |
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| | lit. Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy (saying) / fig. sb shows up unexpectedly and disrupts the plan / sb whose presence is regarded as irksome | |
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| | switch hook (button or cradle of a telephone, whose function is to disconnect the call) | |
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| | being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad) | |
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| | Stomatopoda, order of marine crustaceans (whose members are called mantis shrimps) | |
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| | compound word such as 教室 or 國家｜国家, whose meaning is related to the component hanzi, unlike compounds such as 玫瑰 | |
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| | Tambora, volcano on Indonesian island of Sumbawa 松巴哇, whose 1815 eruption is greatest in recorded history | |
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| | the palm of the Buddha's hand (a metaphor for a higher authority or force from whose control one cannot break free, from 西遊記｜西游记, "Journey to the West") | |
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| | to redress (an injustice); to rehabilitate (sb whose reputation was unjustly sullied) | |
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| | calamity will befall those whose moral standards are not in keeping with their social status | |
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| | "hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain) / (literary) waterfall / cataract / (fig.) torrent of words | |
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| | Sweeper Monk, nameless monk who maintains the library of Shaolin (from Jin Yong's novel "Demigods and Semidevils" 天龍八部｜天龙八部) / (fig.) person whose remarkable talents are not well known | |
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| | Sven Hedin (1865-1952), famous Swedish adventurer and archaeologist, whose 1894-1900 Central Asian expeditions uncovered Kroraina or Loulan 樓蘭｜楼兰 / also written 斯文·赫定 | |
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| | housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them | |
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| | writing brush (old) / Castanopsis fordii, a species of evergreen tree common in the south of China whose calybia (nuts) resemble the tip of a writing brush | |
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| | Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I | |
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| | nickname of Beijing Daxing International Airport 北京大興國際機場｜北京大兴国际机场, whose terminal building looks like a giant alien starfish | |
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| | gunpowder tea, Chinese green tea whose leaves are each formed into a small pellet | |
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| | hop (Humulus lupulus), climbing plant whose flower cones are used in brewing beer | |
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| | compound word, such as 玫瑰 or 咖啡, whose meaning is unrelated to the individual characters (Note: These characters are often not used independently in modern Chinese.) | |
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| | Communist Party official whose wife and children have left China to reside in a foreign country | |
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| | Cinchona ledgeriana, tree whose bark contains quinine | |
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| | saw palmetto (Serenoa repens, a small palm, an extract of whose fruit is used medicinally) | |
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| | Achaemenid Dynasty, (559-330 BC), ancient Iranian dynasty whose kings ruled the Achaemenid Empire | |
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| | dwarf lilyturf (Ophiopogon japonicus), whose tuber is used in TCM | |
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