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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | four types of human emotions, namely: happiness 歡喜｜欢喜, anger 憤怒｜愤怒, sorrow 悲哀 and joy 快樂｜快乐 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書｜四书 in Confucianism | |
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| | division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands | |
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| | ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) / surname Yan | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | (archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布｜吕布 | |
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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute | |
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| | the four arts (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting) / the accomplishments of a well-educated person | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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| | Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍｜东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍｜东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair | |
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| | vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine | |
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| | Suzhou embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 湘繡｜湘绣, 粵繡｜粤绣 and 蜀繡｜蜀绣) | |
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| | four sides | |
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| | Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學｜大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語｜论语, and Mencius 孟子 | |
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| | the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor / see 禮義廉恥｜礼义廉耻 / the four directions / the four limbs (Chinese medicine) / four-dimensional | |
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| | the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書｜四书 | |
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| | four (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / unrestrained / wanton / (literary) shop | |
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| | (TCM) interrogation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | Sichuan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡｜苏绣, 湘繡｜湘绣 and 粵繡｜粤绣) | |
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| | the top four | |
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| | addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: the four basic operations of arithmetic | |
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| | four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍｜青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武 | |
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| | to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own | |
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| | four-leaf clover | |
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| | abbr. for 四個現代化｜四个现代化, Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations | |
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| | "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | in groups of three or four (idiom) | |
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| | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66) / abbr. for 四清運動｜四清运动 | |
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| | sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture | |
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| | Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音｜观音 (Avalokiteśvara) | |
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| | Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆｜笔, 墨, 紙｜纸 and 硯｜砚 / the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom) | |
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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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| | divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 | |
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| | "the four pests", i.e. rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows / see also 打麻雀運動｜打麻雀运动 | |
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| | (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition | |
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| | (four-footed) animal / beast | |
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| | the four limbs of the body | |
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| | the four book depositories, namely: classics 經｜经, history 史, philosophy 子, belles-lettres 集 | |
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| | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋｜张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution | |
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| | lit. 之, 乎, 者 and 也 (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions | |
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| | Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐｜勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu | |
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| | one's four limbs / two arms and two legs | |
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| | four grandparents, two parents and an only child | |
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| | lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched | |
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| | Hunan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡｜苏绣, 粵繡｜粤绣 and 蜀繡｜蜀绣) | |
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| | Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan) | |
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| | four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back | |
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| | never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite | |
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| | lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail | |
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| | (lit.) Zhang Three and Li Four; (fig.) any Tom, Dick or Harry | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | Guangdong embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡｜苏绣, 湘繡｜湘绣 and 蜀繡｜蜀绣) | |
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| | entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | (TCM) observation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | set of (usually four) hanging scrolls | |
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| | (TCM) pulse feeling and palpitation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | partner (in four person game) / family of proposed marriage partner | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | four of a kind / quads (poker) | |
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| | Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑｜初唐四杰 | |
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| | Wu Yi (1938-), one of four vice-premiers of the PRC State Council | |
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| | Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four | |
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| | Luo Binwang (640-684), one of Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑｜初唐四杰 | |
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| | Wang Bo (650-676), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑｜初唐四杰 | |
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| | square / four-square | |
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| | Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) | |
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| | Jöchi (c. 1182-1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan’s four sons | |
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| | Mt Emei in Sichuan, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Samantabhadra 普賢｜普贤 | |
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| | Battle of Sarhu in 1619, in which the Manchus under Nurhaci 努爾哈赤｜努尔哈赤 crushed four Ming armies | |
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| | ITŌ Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin | |
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| | Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 | |
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| | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍 | |
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| | four generations under one roof (idiom) | |
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| | (TCM) auscultation and smelling, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | Mt Emei in Sichuan, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Samantabhadra 普賢｜普贤 / Emeishan city | |
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| | four Han commanderies in north Korea 108 BC-c. 300 AD | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | lit. the four elements are vanity (idiom) / this world is an illusion | |
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| | four seasons beancurd | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇｜杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 | |
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| | Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊 | |
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| | the four seasons / spring, summer, autumn and winter | |
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| | (slang) swearword / four-letter word | |
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| | Beijing / capital of People's Republic of China / one of the four municipalities 直轄市｜直辖市 | |
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| | Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005), one of the Gang of Four | |
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| | Ouyang Xun (557-641), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中｜罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備｜刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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