| | mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve | HSK 1 |
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| | bird / CL: 隻|只, 群 / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn | HSK 2 |
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| | classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc | HSK 3 |
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| | pigeon / dove / various birds of the family Columbidae | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from / (bound form) distance / spur (on the leg of certain birds: gamecock, pheasant etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to carve / to engrave / shrewd / bird of prey | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bird of prey | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bird's nest / nickname for Beijing 2008 Olympic stadium | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cry (of birds, animals and insects) / to make a sound / to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc) | |
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| | elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old) | |
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| | foot of a bird or animal / paw / claws / talons | |
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| | (coll.) foot of an animal or bird / (coll.) foot supporting a cooking pot etc | |
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| | (bound form) small bird / sparrow / also pr. [qiao3] | |
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| | small bird / young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick) / (fig.) penis (kiddie term) / (golf) birdie | |
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| | (of people) to whistle / (of birds and animals) to screech; to howl; to roar | |
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| | (literary) (of birds or insects) to chirp / (bound form) to make a cacophonous noise | |
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| | (bound form) chick; young bird | |
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| | to lay (a foundation) / to conquer (a city etc) / to shoot down (a bird etc) | |
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| | to get a bird's-eye view / bird's-eye view / broad overview | |
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| | Peng, large fabulous bird / roc | |
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| | the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served | |
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| | birds | |
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| | fry (newly hatched fish) / legendary giant fish that could transform into a giant bird 鵬|鹏 | |
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| | kun 鯤|鲲 and peng 鵬|鹏, mythological beasts / peng, a gigantic bird transformed from the kun | |
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| | lark (bird of family Alaudidae) | |
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| | painting of birds and flowers | |
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| | bird | |
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| | to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay | |
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| | (bound form) to cry; to weep loudly / (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot; to screech | |
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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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| | bird | |
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| | (onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc | |
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| | (of a bird) to fly upwards / (of the neck) stiff | |
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| | a kind of bird similar to pheasant | |
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| | (of a bird, animal or plant) male / key / hills | |
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| | to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) | |
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| | (bird species of China) snow goose (Anser caerulescens) | |
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| | mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃 of Fiery Emperor 炎帝 | |
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| | to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed | |
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| | legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison / poisonous / to poison sb | |
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| | legendary giant bird | |
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| | net for fishing or bird catching / (fig.) fetters / to snare (a valuable new team member etc) / to bring together under the one umbrella | |
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| | to close (flower, eyes, suitcase etc) / to bring together / (insect or bird when not flying) to fold (its wings) | |
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| | to implicate / net for birds or fish | |
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| | vulture / (bird species of China) cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) | |
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| | oriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers | |
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| | (bound form) wing (of a bird or insect) | |
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| | (of a bird, fish etc) to be caught in a net / (of a tennis ball) to hit the net / (of a criminal) to be captured | |
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| | mythical bird related to phoenix | |
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| | (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple | |
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| | fierce / brutal / bird of prey | |
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| | calling of birds | |
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| | (bird species of China) crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) | |
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| | birds and beasts / fauna | |
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| | (of a bird) to peck at food | |
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| | (of a bird) to perch / (of creatures in general) to inhabit; to dwell | |
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| | bird of prey | |
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| | (coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey | |
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| | one move, two gains (idiom); two birds with one stone | |
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| | (ancient Chinese astronomy) Zhuque, the Vermilion Bird (the southern quadrant of the sky) / (Daoism) the guardian deity of the south | |
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| | edible bird's nest | |
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| | "dragon bones" (fossilized animal bones or teeth, used in TCM) / breastbone (of a bird) / keel (of a ship) | |
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| | (used in bird names) throat | |
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| | (bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula) | |
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| | old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大), now called 捺 / sound made by birds (onom.) / (literary) to dismember (form of punishment) / to spread | |
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| | birds and animals / creature / beast (brutal person) | |
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| | thrush (bird of genus Turdus) | |
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| | (bird species of China) little gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus) | |
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| | to apply makeup to the eyebrows / (bird species of China) Chinese hwamei (Garrulax canorus) | |
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| | to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound | |
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| | bird's nest | |
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| | (bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides) | |
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| | bird species / birds | |
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| | (bird species of China) stock dove (Columba oenas) | |
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| | bird eggs | |
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| | (bird species of China) little egret (Egretta garzetta) | |
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| | mythological daughter of Fiery Emperor 炎帝 who turned into bird Jingwei 精衛|精卫 after drowning | |
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| | (bird species of China) Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus) | |
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| | (bird species of China) white stork (Ciconia ciconia) | |
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| | (bird species of China) osprey (Pandion haliaetus) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Eurasian goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) | |
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| | to pat / to slap / (of a bird) to flap (one's wings) | |
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| | twittering of birds | |
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| | name used for many fishing birds / cormorant / osprey | |
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| | the crop of a bird | |
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| | to molt (of birds) / to change feathers | |
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| | net / fishing net / bird net | |
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| | lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds | |
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| | lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom) / to kill two birds with one stone | |
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| | (bird species of China) barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) | |
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| | short-tailed bird | |
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| | lit. like a little bird relying on people (idiom) / fig. cute and helpless-looking | |
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| | fine hair grown by animals (or down grown by birds) in the fall / (fig.) sth barely discernible / the slightest thing / the minutest detail | |
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| | babbler (bird) | |
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| | (bird species of China) brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) / (fig.) small fry | |
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| | bird | |
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| | lit. a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow (idiom) / fig. sb who frightens easily, due to past experiences | |
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| | bird cage / (fig.) prison / confinement | |
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