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| | five / 5 | HSK 1 |
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| | a (large) bell (CL: 架) / clock (CL: 座) / amount of time; o'clock (CL: 點|点, 分, 秒) (as in 三點鐘|三点钟 "three o'clock" or "three hours" or 五分鐘|五分钟 "five minutes" etc) | HSK 3 |
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| | public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) | HSK 6 |
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| | five-string lute / Taiwan pr. [zhu2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | five-star (hotel) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) | |
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| | metal hardware (nuts and bolts) / the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and tin 金銀銅鐵錫|金银铜铁锡 | |
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| | Mt Tai in Shandong, eastern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 | |
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| | the five visible planets, namely: Mercury 水星, Venus 金星, Mars 火星, Jupiter 木星, Saturn 土星 | |
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| | five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty) | |
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| | father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 | |
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| | the five fingers of one's hand | |
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| | squad of five soldiers / to associate with / five (banker's anti-fraud numeral) | |
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| | five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 | |
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| | son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- | |
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| | Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 | |
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| | the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421) | |
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| | marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位 / nobleman; high official | |
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| | abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | to wait / to inquire after / to watch / season / climate / (old) period of five days | |
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| | red star / five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat / hot film star | |
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| | third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1] | |
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| | five continents / the world | |
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| | fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old) | |
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| | south of the five ranges / old term for south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi | |
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| | ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks) | |
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| | Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经 | |
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| | five viscera and six bowels (TCM) | |
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| | Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山 in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan | |
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| | several / three or five | |
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| | Wuliangye liquor / Five Grain liquor | |
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| | suburbs or outskirts / one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China / official in charge of fields (old) | |
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| | Wuchang, county-level city in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang / the Permanent Five (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA) | |
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| | the five cardinal virtues in traditional Chinese ethics: benevolence 仁, justice 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and honor 信 / alternative term for 五倫|五伦, the five cardinal relationships / alternative term for 五行, the five elements | |
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| | Later Tang of the Five Dynasties (923-936) | |
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| | five rings / pentacyclic (chemistry) | |
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| | lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom) / fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) | |
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| | five viscera of TCM, namely: heart 心, liver 肝, spleen 脾, lungs 肺 and kidneys 腎|肾 | |
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| | function / capability / sense (i.e. the five senses of sight 視|视, hearing 聽|听, smell 嗅, taste 味 and touch 觸|触) / faculty (i.e. specific ability) | |
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| | the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, the Book of History 書經|书经, the Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记, the Book of Changes 易經|易经, and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 | |
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| | Tang of the Five Southern Dynasties 937-975 | |
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| | five-card stud (card game) (from English "show hand") | |
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| | to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑) | |
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| | same as 舊唐書|旧唐书, History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls | |
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| | the national emblem of the PRC (a red circle containing the five stars of the PRC flag over Tiananmen 天安門|天安门) | |
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| | five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音|齿音, 唇音 | |
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| | infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms) | |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | Nanyue district of Hengyang city 衡陽市|衡阳市, Hunan / Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 | |
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| | to tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment) / to tear limb from limb | |
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| | Later Han or Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) / Later Han of the Five Dynasties (947-950) | |
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| | the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺|大庾岭, Dupang 都龐嶺|都庞岭, Qitian 騎田嶺|骑田岭, Mengzhu 萌渚嶺|萌渚岭 and Yuecheng 越城嶺|越城岭 | |
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| | Mt Heng in Shanxi, northern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 / Hengshan district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang | |
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| | umami, one of the five basic tastes (cookery) | |
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| | the Five Legendary Emperors, usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝, Zhuanxu 顓頊|颛顼, Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾, Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧 and Yu Shun 虞舜 | |
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| | another name for Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 / Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls | |
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| | five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored | |
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| | Later Zhou of the Five Dynasties (951-960), centered on Shandong and Hebei, with capital at Kaifeng 開封|开封 | |
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| | to clap one's hands / to clap each other's hands / high five | |
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| | one of the five legendary emperors, also called 高辛氏 | |
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| | three sovereigns 三皇 and five emperors 五帝 of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography | |
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| | joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row | |
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| | Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923) | |
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| | Deinagkistrodon acutus, a species of venomous pit viper, aka five-pace viper (i.e. can grow to five paces) | |
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| | never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite | |
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| | five crops, e.g. millet 粟, soybean 豆, sesame 麻, barley 麥|麦, rice 稻 or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley | |
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| | Mt Heng 恆山|恒山 in Shanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 | |
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| | the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists | |
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| | Later Jin of the Five Dynasties (936-946) | |
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| | Mt Song in Henan, central mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 | |
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| | Han of the Five dynasties (951-979), one of ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms period (907-960) | |
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| | Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 | |
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| | (TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟|五脏, and seven to adverse effects on one's body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind) | |
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| | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 | |
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| | Wang code, same as 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983 | |
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| | lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty | |
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| | five-month-old lamb | |
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| | three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信) | |
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| | the eye is bewildered by five colors (idiom); a dazzling riot of colors | |
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| | (Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and coriander | |
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| | Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口) | |
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| | Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴, Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑, Jie 羯, Di 氐, Qiang 羌, esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國|五胡十六国 | |
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| | one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾 | |
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| | Zhuanxu, one of the Five Legendary Emperors 五帝, grandson of the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝, trad. reigned 2513-2435 BC | |
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| | Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China | |
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| | King Gou Jian of Yue (c. 470 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸 | |
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| | acupuncture point (any point on any meridian) / category of 12 specific acupuncture points near the wrist or ankle, each lying on a different meridian (one of five categories collectively termed 五輸穴|五输穴) | |
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| | the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism) | |
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| | the Book of History, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经, a compendium of documents which make up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down to the time of Confucius, also known as 尚書經|尚书经, 尚書|尚书, 書|书 | |
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| | Yu Shun, one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝 | |
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| | Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 | |
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| | five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe) / Japanese: gomoku / gobang | |
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| | Zhang Pu (1602-1641), Ming dynasty scholar and prolific writer, proponent of 複社|复社 cultural renewal movement, author of Five tombstone inscriptions 五人墓碑記|五人墓碑记 | |
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| | five continents / the whole world | |
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| | Duke Xiang of Song (reigned 650-637 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸 | |
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| | wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM) / poria five powder / Hoelen five powder / five ling powder | |
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| | History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls | |
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