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joint; node / (bound form) section; segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize; to save / (bound form) moral integrity; chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour)
HSK 2
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
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(TV or radio) program; show / item; act; segment; number (on the program of a concert, variety show or cultural event) / a planned activity (in one's schedule) / CL: 個|个, 場|场, 項|项, 臺|台, , 檔|档
HSK 2
holiday / festival / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
syllable
HSK 2
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
details; particulars
HSK 4
saving / to save / to use sparingly / to cut down on
HSK 4
time / season / period / CL: 個|个
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the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
HSK 5
circumstances / plot; storyline
HSK 5
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
HSK 5
to adjust / to regulate / to harmonize / to reconcile (accountancy etc)
HSK 5
Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas
HSK 6
rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat
HSK 6
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
HSK 6
Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
HSK 6
to conserve energy; to minimize energy consumption
HSK 6
public holiday
HSK 6
season; time
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carnival
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joint (physiology) / key point / critical phase
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solar term
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festive day / holiday
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to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
HSK 7-9
frugal; economical
HSK 7-9
to save water
HSK 7-9
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
HSK 7-9
to come apart
HSK 7-9
to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
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Mother's Day
to save food / to go on a diet
chapter / section
Arbor Day (March 12th), also known as National Tree Planting Day 全民義務植樹日|全民义务植树日
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day
television program
All Saints (Christian festival)
(Islam) Eid al-Fitr, festival that marks the end of Ramadan
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
node
Valentine's Day
Easter
music festival
variety show
International Women's Day (March 8)
(idiom) new problems arise unexpectedly
arthritis
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
Children's Day
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
beat (music) / meter
a minor matter / trivia / bar (music)
bamboo joint
(computing) byte / CL: 個|个
International Women's Day (March 8)
to extract / to excerpt / excerpt
Teachers' Day (September 10th in PRC and Confucius's birthday, September 28th in Taiwan)
seasonal
Father's Day
segmented
April Fools' Day
major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character
Pentecost
regulator
the New Year festival
Fengjie, a county in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
Thanksgiving Day
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
International Labor Day (May Day)
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
step by step / little by little
joint (of the skeleton)
Christmas (Tw)
to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke
character; moral integrity
etiquette
to retreat again and again in defeat / to suffer defeat after defeat
at the Chinese New Year or other festivities
nodule / tubercle
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
PRC National Day (October 1st)
to control / to restrict / to moderate / to temper / moderation / sobriety / to administer
(diplomatic) envoy
Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off
moral integrity / unflinching righteousness
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
arthropod
abridged version
rheumatoid arthritis
Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14
knuckle
of noble character and unquestionable integrity (idiom)
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
excerpt / selection (from a book) / to select / to choose an extract
(dialect) critical juncture / crucial moment / Taiwan pr. [jie2 gu5 yan3]
minor details / trifles

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