| | sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article | HSK 2 |
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| | inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag | HSK 5 |
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| | to cover; to spread over / a cover; a shade; a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住) to have things under control; to be able to handle it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | loosely woven bamboo ladle | |
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| | backscratcher (made from bamboo etc) / (may also refer to other products that are of benefit to old people, such as padded cloth shoes, mobility tricycle etc) | |
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| | bamboo | |
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| | bamboo pole | HSK 7-9 |
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| | summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL: 張|张, 領|领 | |
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| | fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings) | |
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| | bamboo rat | |
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| | genre of folk song with accompaniment of bamboo clappers | |
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| | winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil) | |
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| | to play the xiao 簫|箫, a vertical bamboo flute / (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫) / (slang) to give a blowjob | |
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| | bamboo box | |
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| | shinai (bamboo sword for kendō) | |
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| | Iron Curtain (1945-1991) (In Taiwan, the word was used to refer to both the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain.) | |
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| | bamboo shoot | |
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| | bamboo basket | |
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| | sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes | |
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| | a bamboo or wicker scoop / dustpan | |
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| | a raft made of bamboo or wood / to fell trees / to hew | |
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| | bamboo shoot | |
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| | fernleaf bamboo (Bambusa multiplex), species of bamboo native to China, suited to hedging and screening | |
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| | to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation | |
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| | bamboo slips (used for writing on in ancient times) | |
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| | drinking game chips (typically in the form of strips of bamboo inscribed with lines of poetry) | |
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| | lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth / many new things emerge in rapid succession | |
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| | sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer / tanghulu | |
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| | bamboo slip used for record keeping during the Han Dynasty | |
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| | to look at sth through a bamboo tube / to have a restricted view | |
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| | wicker or bamboo winnowing basket / dustpan | |
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| | lit. a force to smash bamboo (idiom); fig. irresistible force | |
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| | bamboo fungus; veiled lady mushroom (Phallus indusiatus) | |
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| | to whip with bamboo strips | |
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| | (literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message | |
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| | bamboo raft | |
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| | bamboo pipe | |
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| | bamboo rope | |
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| | (dialect) partition or screen made of plaited bamboo (or rushes, grain stalks etc); a weir of similar construction used to trap fish | |
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| | bamboo hat | |
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| | mat woven from bamboo strips | |
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| | sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer / tanghulu | |
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| | backscratcher (made from bamboo etc) | |
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| | lit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times / fig. to study diligently | |
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| | bamboo and wood | |
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| | bamboo shoot tip | |
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| | lit. (music instruments made of) metal, stone, string, and bamboo (idiom) / fig. traditional Chinese music instruments | |
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| | conical bamboo hat | |
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| | bamboo forest | |
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| | to sign one's name / to write brief comments on a document / inscribed bamboo stick (variant of 籤|签) / visa | HSK 5 |
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| | cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport | |
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| | kite (Etymology: Kites with bamboo whistles attached produced musical sounds when flown.) | |
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| | same as 斑竹, mottled bamboo, since according to legend the spots on mottled bamboo are marks left by the tears shed by two of King Shun's 舜 concubines (Ehuang 娥皇 and Nüying 女英, known as the Concubines of the Xiang 湘妃) upon learning of his death | |
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| | (bird species of China) Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus) | |
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| | pot-scrubbing brush, made from bamboo strips | |
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| | utensil made of bamboo | |
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| | bamboo skewer / bamboo slip used in divination or gambling | |
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| | a bamboo carriage / a palanquin | |
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| | bamboos placed across wooden frames on which grain may be stored in damp climates | |
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| | woven bamboo mat | |
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| | round bamboo basket | |
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| | simple / uncomplicated / letter / to choose / to select / bamboo strips used for writing (old) | |
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| | a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle / wood or bamboo trestlework / a warehouse / (computing) stack | |
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| | rice tube pudding, a single-serve column of glutinous rice topped with a sauce and garnished (Taiwanese dish, originally prepared by stuffing rice into bamboo tubes and steaming them) | |
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| | bamboo (archaic) | |
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| | policy / plan / scheme / bamboo slip for writing (old) / to whip (a horse) / to encourage / riding crop with sharp spines (old) / essay written for the imperial examinations (old) / upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy | |
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| | the outer layer of a stalk of bamboo (or reed or sorghum); a thin bamboo strip | |
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| | springtime bamboo shoots / fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate | |
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| | to calculate (using bamboo tokens on a counting board); to count beads / (fig.) to budget; to plan (an investment) | |
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| | bamboo strip | |
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| | ba-wan, dumpling made of glutinous dough, typically stuffed with minced pork, bamboo shoots etc, and served with a savory sauce (Taiwanese snack) (from Taiwanese 肉圓, Tai-lo pr. [bah-uân]) | |
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| | lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana) | |
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| | lit. smash bamboo, overturn water tank (idiom); fig. irresistible force | |
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| | horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall / shallow round woven bamboo basket | |
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| | bamboo fungus | |
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| | bamboo tube / bamboo pipe | |
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| | bamboo shavings (Bambusa tuldoides) used in Chinese medicine | |
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| | reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute | |
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| | bamboo flute with 8 holes | |
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| | bamboo box / vessels for holding food | |
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| | bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus) | |
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| | Manchurian wild rice 菰, aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot | |
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| | gramineae (family including bamboo, cereals, rice) | |
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| | bamboo shoot | |
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| | xiao, a vertical bamboo flute | |
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| | (bird species of China) mountain bamboo partridge (Bambusicola fytchii) | |
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| | bamboo clapper boards used in folk theater | |
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| | like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube (metaphor for blurting everything out at once) | |
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| | square bamboo container for food or clothing | |
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| | bamboo rake | |
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| | bamboo basket for rice-washing | |
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| | bamboo pole / spindle | |
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| | bamboo receptacle used to hold meat for temple sacrifices in ancient times | |
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| | huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring | |
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| | bamboo mat / feast, banquet | |
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| | lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana) | |
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| | "bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118) | |
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| | well bucket / pail made of bamboo strips | |
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