| | pagoda / tower / minaret / stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) / CL: 座 | HSK 6 |
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| | to tower / to stand straight (of person's bearing) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to rise abruptly (to a towering position) / to tower over / to spring up / to emerge suddenly / the emergence (e.g. of a power) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | apartment building / residential tower | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to stand tall / to tower aloft | HSK 7-9 |
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| | tower over a palace gateway (old) | |
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| | (dialect) balcony / terrace / (literary) high building / tower / (old) stage for theatrical performance | |
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| | bridgehead (military) / stronghold serving as a base for advancing further into enemy territory / bridge tower (ornamental structure at either end of a bridge) / (fig.) gateway (place that provides access to other places beyond it) / bridgehead (key location serving as a base for further expansion) | |
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| | mainstay / cornerstone / tower of strength | |
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| | iron tower | |
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| | diving platform / diving tower / landing platform | |
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| | tower crane | |
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| | bell tower / campanile / clock tower / Bell Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc | |
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| | plank walkway constructed on the face of a cliff / (archaic) elevated passageway connecting the upper levels of adjacent towers | |
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| | city gate tower | |
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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥｜崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓｜岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣｜滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | tower (of building) | |
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| | Tengwang Tower in Nanchang, Jiangxi / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓｜岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓｜黄鹤楼 in Wuhan, Hubei | |
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| | Tokyo Tower | |
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| | to tower / standing tall and upright (of large building) | |
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| | drum tower | |
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| | a drum tower / Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc | |
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| | high / steep / to tower | |
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| | control tower | |
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| | leaning tower | |
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| | watchtower / lookout tower | |
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| | North tower / Beita district of Shaoyang city 邵陽市｜邵阳市, Hunan | |
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| | small ventilation tower on roof of building | |
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| | sand grains accumulate to make a tower a tower (idiom); by gathering small amounts one gets a huge quantity / many a mickle makes a muckle | |
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| | fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night) | |
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| | watchtower; guard tower / police booth | |
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| | defensive tower / lookout tower / enemy radio station | |
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| | to rise sharply / to tower | |
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| | multistoried building / tower / pagoda | |
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| | electricity pylon / transmission tower | |
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| | bell chamber (at the top of a bell tower) | |
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| | to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記｜岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 | |
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| | stupa / tower venerating the ashes of the Buddha | |
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| | to tower over / rising (to a dominant position) | |
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| | (literary) to tower aloft | |
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| | Eiffel Tower | |
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| | observation tower / lookout tower | |
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| | On Yueyang Tower (1045), essay by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 | |
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| | Tower of Babel, in Genesis 11:5-foll. | |
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| | Oriental Pearl Tower | |
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| | Leaning Tower of Pisa | |
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| | ivory tower | |
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| | World Trade Center (the twin towers destroyed by the 9-11 terrorists) | |
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| | Tower of Buddhist Incense in the Summer Palace 頤和園｜颐和园, Beijing | |
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| | Kizilgaha, site of a famous fire beacon tower and cliff caves in Kuqa, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang | |
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| | cooling tower | |
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| | a tower crane | |
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| | Tianjin World Financial Center, skyscraper a.k.a. the Tianjin Tower or Jin Tower / abbr. to 津塔 | |
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| | Yueyang Tower, famous beauty spot in Yueyang, north Hunan, overlooking Dongting Lake 洞庭湖 / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓｜黄鹤楼 in Wuhan, Hubei and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣｜滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | Yueyang Tower district of Yueyang city 岳陽｜岳阳, Hunan | |
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| | fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night) | |
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| | Cui Hao (-754), Tang dynasty poet and author of poem Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓｜黄鹤楼 | |
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| | watch tower / drum tower marking night watches | |
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| | Oriental Pearl Television Tower | |
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| | distillation tower / bubble tower / plate column | |
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| | watch tower / movable battlefield turret | |
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| | distillation tower / bubble tower / plate column | |
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| | Jin Tower / abbr. for 天津環球金融中心｜天津环球金融中心 Tianjin World Financial Center, skyscraper a.k.a. the Tianjin Tower | |
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| | glazed tile pagoda / glazed tower of minaret | |
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| | watchtower / observation tower | |
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| | Eiffel Tower | |
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| | Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), minister of Northern Song who led the failed reform of 1043, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記｜岳阳楼记 | |
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| | lit. the dragon-fly shakes the stone tower (idiom); fig. to overestimate one's capabilities | |
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| | Chihkan Tower (formerly Fort Provintia) in Tainan, Taiwan (also written 赤嵌樓｜赤嵌楼) | |
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| | Chihkan Tower (formerly Fort Provintia) in Tainan, Taiwan (also written 赤崁樓｜赤崁楼) | |
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| | Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai | |
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| | TV tower | |
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| | dice tower | |
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