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| | four types of human emotions, namely: happiness 歡喜｜欢喜, anger 憤怒｜愤怒, sorrow 悲哀 and joy 快樂｜快乐 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書｜四书 in Confucianism | |
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| | ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition | |
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| | four sides | |
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| | (archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books | |
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| | Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 | |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere | |
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| | Suzhou embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 湘繡｜湘绣, 粵繡｜粤绣 and 蜀繡｜蜀绣) | |
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| | the four limbs of the body | |
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| | "Journey to the West", Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩｜吴承恩, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, also called "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey" | |
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| | Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍｜东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍｜东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair | |
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| | divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 | |
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| | four (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / unrestrained / wanton / (literary) shop | |
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| | Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan) | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) / surname Yan | |
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| | division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | (Tw) (abbr. for 教育與娛樂｜教育与娱乐) education and entertainment, the 5th and 6th aspects of life beyond the four basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and transportation 食衣住行 / (sometimes used to signify edutainment or just recreation) | |
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| | four grandparents, two parents and an only child | |
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| | Wang Bo (650-676), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑｜初唐四杰 | |
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| | Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature | |
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| | the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building | |
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| | Ouyang Xun (557-641), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | the four seasons / spring, summer, autumn and winter | |
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| | Battle of Sarhu in 1619, in which the Manchus under Nurhaci 努爾哈赤｜努尔哈赤 crushed four Ming armies | |
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| | the top four | |
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| | Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong) | |
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| | partner (in four person game) / family of proposed marriage partner | |
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| | Mandarin phonetic symbols (MPS), phonetic alphabet for Chinese used esp. in Taiwan, also known colloquially as Bopomofo (after the first four letters of the alphabet:ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) | |
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| | Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布｜吕布 | |
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| | "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | (slang) swearword / four-letter word | |
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| | entering tone / checked tone / one of the four tones of Middle Chinese | |
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| | the four heavenly kings (Sanskrit vajra) / the four guardians or warrior attendants of Buddha | |
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| | the four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬 | |
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| | Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆｜笔, 墨, 紙｜纸 and 硯｜砚 / the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom) | |
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| | the four arts (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting) / the accomplishments of a well-educated person | |
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| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中｜罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備｜刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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| | the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書｜四书 | |
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| | Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism | |
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| | (four-footed) animal / beast | |
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| | four corner code (input method for Chinese characters) | |
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| | Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音｜观音 (Avalokiteśvara) | |
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| | lit. four ounces can move a thousand catties (idiom) / fig. to achieve much with little effort | |
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| | the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲｜平声, rising tone 上聲｜上声, departing tone 去聲｜去声 and entering tone 入聲｜入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin | |
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| | modernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations | |
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| | the four book depositories, namely: classics 經｜经, history 史, philosophy 子, belles-lettres 集 | |
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| | addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: the four basic operations of arithmetic | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | Sichuan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡｜苏绣, 湘繡｜湘绣 and 粵繡｜粤绣) | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | wine, sex, avarice and temper (idiom); four cardinal vices | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | Hunan embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 蘇繡｜苏绣, 粵繡｜粤绣 and 蜀繡｜蜀绣) | |
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| | sense of propriety, justice, integrity and honor (i.e. the four social bonds, 四維｜四维) | |
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| | Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇｜杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家 | |
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| | the four basic operations of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) | |
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| | Chu Suiliang (596-659), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家 | |
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| | one's four limbs / two arms and two legs | |
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| | lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war | |
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| | the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story | |
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| | a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line | |
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| | Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇｜杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 | |
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| | the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道｜苦集灭道: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅｜灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 | |
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| | the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty | |
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| | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋｜张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution | |
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| | four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back | |
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| | "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯｜杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰｜卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王｜骆宾王 | |
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| | Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍 | |
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| | four generations under one roof (idiom) | |
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| | (TCM) the four methods of diagnosis, namely 望診｜望诊 (observation), 聞診｜闻诊 (auscultation and olfaction), 問診｜问诊 (interrogation), 切診｜切诊 (pulse feeling and palpation) | |
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| | Kaempferia galanga, one of four plants known as galangal | |
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| | twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions) | |
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| | (TCM) auscultation and smelling, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | Zhang Sengyou (active c. 490-540), one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家 | |
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| | (archaic) the four rivers (Yangtze 長江｜长江, Yellow 黃河｜黄河, Huai 淮河, Ji 濟水｜济水) / (TCM) acupuncture point SJ-9 | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution) | |
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| | Mount Jiuhua in Anhui, scenic tourist site, and one of the four famous Buddhist mountains | |
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| | Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐｜勾践 of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu | |
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| | to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own | |
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| | Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) | |
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| | Gu Kaizhi or Ku K'aichih (346-407), famous painter of Eastern Jin dynasty, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家 | |
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| | Ma Lianliang (1901-1966), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生｜四大须生 | |
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| | war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters | |
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| | ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo | |
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| | (TCM) pulse feeling and palpitation, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診｜四诊 | |
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| | four of a kind / quads (poker) | |
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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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