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day / a (calendar) date / days of one's life
HSK 2
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  *節* | 節* | *節
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
calendar / CL: 張|张,
HSK 4
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  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
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  *逢* | 逢* | *逢
to meet by chance / to come across / (of a calendar event) to come along / (of an event) to fall on (a particular day) / to fawn upon
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
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  *朢* | 朢* | *朢
15th day of month (lunar calendar) / old variant of
HSK 7-9
the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar
HSK 7-9
Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
(Tw) Christian era / Gregorian calendar / AD (Anno Domini)
the second of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which begins in late July and lasts either 10 or 20 days, depending on the Chinese calendar in that year
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
Gregorian calendar / solar calendar
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  *閏* | 閏* | *閏
intercalary / an extra day or month inserted into the lunar or solar calendar (such as February 29)
calendar / schedule
leap year / (lunar calendar) year with a thirteen intercalary month
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  *曆* | 曆* | *曆
calendar
monthly calendar
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
first day of the first lunar month / (old) calendar promulgated by the first emperor of a dynasty
solar calendar / Western (Gregorian) calendar
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
first month (of either lunar or Western calendars)
calendar science / calendar system
calendar era / epoch
perpetual calendar / ten thousand year calendar / Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁
Gregorian calendar / Western calendar
early autumn / 7th month of the lunar calendar
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
the traditional Chinese lunar calendar
desk calendar
astronomic calendar
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁
Gregorian calendar / solar calendar
wall calendar
to number the years / calendar era / annals / chronicle
lunar calendar
final month of summer (i.e. sixth month of lunar calendar)
intercalary month in the lunar calendar / leap month
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
final month of spring (i.e. third month of lunar calendar)
final month of winter (i.e. twelfth month of lunar calendar)
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  *蔀* | 蔀* | *蔀
(literary) to cover; to shelter / (literary) 76 years (unit of time in ancient calendars)
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar
second month of autumn / 8th month of the lunar calendar
the 5th century Chinese calendar established by Zu Chongzhi 祖沖之|祖冲之
the 10 heavenly stems , , , , , , , , , , used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
calendar year
10th month of the lunar calendar / Indian summer / crops sown in late autumn
old calendar / out-of-date customs
calendar (esp. illustrated)
day that is named but not numbered (on ethnic calendar)
(literary) movements of celestial bodies / destiny / calendar system
the ten Heavenly Stems , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
variant of 曆法|历法 calendar
the 12 earthly branches , , , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
New Year's Day in the lunar calendar
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 哈努卡節|哈努卡节 and simply 哈努卡
same as 天干 / the 10 heavenly stems , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar) / also called 光明節|光明节 and 哈努卡節|哈努卡节
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on the Gregorian calendar)
"quarter remainder" calendar, the first calculated Chinese calendar, in use from the Warring States period until the early years of the Han dynasty
Nisan, the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar
calendar / diary
school calendar
Gregorian calendar
calendar of events
solar term; seasonal division (one of 24 periods in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar, governing agricultural timing and cultural festivals)
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar


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