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| | because / owing to / on account of | HSK 2 |
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| | to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | HSK 3 |
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| | due to / as a result of / thanks to / owing to / since / because | HSK 3 |
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| | cause / reason / because | HSK 6 |
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| | to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle) | |
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| | with this / thereby / thus / because of this | |
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| | common rue (Ruta graveolens) / (used in old compounds relating to books because in former times rue was used to protect books from insect damage) | |
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| | chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives) | |
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| | (classical particle similar to 於｜于) in / at / from / because / than / (classical final particle similar to 嗎｜吗, 吧, 呢, expressing question, doubt or astonishment) | |
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| | to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage) | |
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| | in order to / because of / for the sake of | |
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| | to originate from / to come from the fact that / owing to / because of | |
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| | simply because / all because | |
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| | to catch the wind / (fig.) to attract criticism because of one's prominence | |
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| | lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom) / fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes | |
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| | lit. to smash a pot just because it has a crack (idiom) / fig. to give up altogether after a setback; to throw one's hands up in frustration and let it all go to hell | |
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| | (idiom) you can't rely on a verbal agreement; just because sb says sth, doesn't mean it's true | |
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| | lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face / to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk | |
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| | to lie idle (of arable land) / fig. rusty because of lack of practice | |
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| | lit. a person who has seen little of the world will be be astonished by certain things (idiom) / fig. to be taken aback by sth because of one's lack of sophistication; naive; unworldy | |
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| | heavy horse / horse unable to move because of twisted leg / plodding | |
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| | to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own / a sentimental attachment | |
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| | to excuse oneself because of illness | |
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| | (neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items) | |
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| | "ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲｜粉丝 and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking | |
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| | to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve) | |
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| | (idiom) favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (idiom) (by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates | |
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| | lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen | |
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| | unprofitable goods; item that can only be sold at a loss / daughter (so called in former times because daughters required a dowry when they married) | |
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| | (Internet slang) transcription of "not at all" – English words in a song promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics sung by Huang Xiaoming 黃曉明｜黄晓明, who became a laughing stock in China because his pronunciation was perceived as embarrassingly bad / to be a laughing stock / to make a fool of oneself (i.e. equivalent to 鬧笑話｜闹笑话) | |
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| | not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers | |
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| | (jocular) wedding invitation (lit. "red bomb", because wedding invitations use red paper, and invitees are expected to give a substantial sum of money as a wedding gift) | |
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| | third day of the lunar year (inauspicious for visits because arguments happen easily on that day) | |
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| | unable to refuse because of affection | |
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| | lit. to blame the toilet because one is having difficulty completing a bowel movement (idiom) / fig. to blame others for problems caused by one's own shortcomings | |
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| | lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom) / fig. nobody is indispensable | |
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| | to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better) | |
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| | the practice of favoring sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (by extension) culture of favoritism towards relatives, friends and associates | |
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| | to deal a single fatal blow / (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error | |
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| | people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits | |
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| | to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case | |
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| | because of this | |
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| | (idiom) to marry because of an unplanned pregnancy | |
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| | hatred caused by love (idiom) / to grow to hate someone because of unrequited love for that person | |
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| | Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKX), nicknamed 海星機場｜海星机场 because its terminal looks like a huge starfish | |
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| | half-cooked rice / (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance / Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4] | |
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| | fig. restless, because of fear or strong emotions | |
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