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exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)
HSK 5
pungent (taste) / bitter / fig. sad / miserable
HSK 7-9
hardships / arduous / difficult
HSK 7-9
hardworking; industrious
HSK 7-9
painstakingly / with great trouble
laborious
Xinji, county-level city in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, Hebei
Zimbabwe (Tw)
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surname Xin
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(of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa
Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland
Simpson (name)
dioxin, carcinogenic heterocyclic hydrocarbon (esp. Taiwan usage)
Singh (name)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
Maxine (name)
to make nothing of hardships
Lixin, a county in Bozhou 亳州, Anhui
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort
Manchurian wild ginger (family Asarum)
octane rating
one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾
Xinji, county-level city in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, Hebei
Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist
Lixin, a county in Bozhou 亳州, Anhui
thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021 / cf 辛丑條約|辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
Henry Kissinger (1923-), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973-1977
spicy hot (taste) / fig. biting (criticism)
forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031 / cf 辛亥革命, Xinhai Revolution of 1911
Wisconsin
very pungent and spicy vegetable dishes (a common Buddhist term)
bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
twenty-eighth year H4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2011 or 2071
eighteenth year H6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2001 or 2061
eight year H8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1991 or 2051
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
misery
syndicate (loanword)
Zhou Xin (c. 11th century BC), last king of the Shang dynasty
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor and politician
behind-the-scenes story / details known only to insiders
Thimphu, capital of Bhutan (Tw)
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
simvastatin
Shin Bet (Israel national security service)
Chea Sim, president of Cambodian National Assembly
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011 / also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格
(adjective) non-Buddhist vegetarian (allowing strong-smelling vegetables like garlic and onions)
(loanword) pentazocine (a synthetic opioid analgesic)
Funcinpec (royalist Cambodian political party)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
Emperor Xin, last ruler of Shang (11th Century BC), famous as a tyrant
San Jacinto
benactyzine
Lansing, capital of Michigan
Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising
to make industrious and diligent efforts (idiom)
kimchi (loanword)
The Simpsons (US TV series)
fifty-eighth year H10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1981 or 2041
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011


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