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| | beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel | HSK 7-9 |
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| | injurious insect / pest | 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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| | Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类) | |
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| | lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic | |
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| | to chant; to recite / verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems) / (literary) to lament; to groan / (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects / (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴) (cf. 猱, wide vibrato) | |
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| | (bound form) wing (of a bird or insect) | |
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| | arteries and veins / vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc) | |
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| | common rue (Ruta graveolens) / (used in old compounds relating to books because in former times rue was used to protect books from insect damage) | |
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| | (of paint etc) to peel off; to flake off / (of an insect or snake etc) to molt / (of skin) to peel off due to hard labor, blistering or sunburn etc / (fig.) to go through a grueling experience | |
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| | arch. legendary venomous insect / to poison / to bewitch / to drive to insanity / to harm by witchcraft / intestinal parasite | |
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| | (literary) (of birds or insects) to chirp / (bound form) to make a cacophonous noise | |
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| | insect or insect-like small creature (literary) / base person (used as a curse word) | |
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| | (of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc) / (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug) / to drink through a straw | |
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| | to repel insects; to deworm | |
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| | plant diseases and insect pests | |
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| | sting / bite (of insect) | |
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| | insect pest / damage from insects | |
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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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| | (onom.) chirping of insects, sighing noise etc | |
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| | Jingzhe or Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th March | |
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| | poisonous insect (or spider etc); venomous snake / (slang) junkie | |
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| | wood-boring insect | |
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| | insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin | |
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| | (literary) insect larva / Taiwan pr. [xiang4] | |
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| | flying insect / winged insect | |
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| | mythological insect that makes people doze off / (fig.) drowsiness / (coll.) person who loves sleeping / sleepaholic | |
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| | insect damage / destruction of crops by pest insects | |
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| | dormant insect | |
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| | (of insects) to undergo metamorphosis / (fig.) to be transformed / to metamorphose / to become degraded | |
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| | beneficial insect | |
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| | insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people | |
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| | (dialect) cricket (insect) | |
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| | cricket (insect) | |
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| | Hymenoptera (insect order including ants and bees) | |
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| | termite / to bore (of insects) | |
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| | Coleoptera (insect order including beetles) | |
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| | mole cricket / Gryllolaptaptidae, family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera (a serious agricultural pest) | |
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| | seasonal insect (e.g. cicada) | |
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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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| | boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest | |
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| | Orthoptera (insect order including grasshoppers, crickets and locusts) | |
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| | to soak seeds (in water to hasten germination, or in a chemical solution to prevent damage from insects etc) | |
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| | (scorpion) / an insect | |
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| | insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten | |
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| | imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development) | |
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| | boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest | |
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| | a kind of insect (old) | |
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| | (literary) (of a worm or insect) to nibble / to bite / worm-eaten | |
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| | beneficial bird (esp. one that preys on insect pests or mice) | |
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| | (insect) / Tryxalis masuta | |
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| | to sing (of birds or insects) / to warble / to chirp / to twitter | |
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| | copious smoke produced by smoldering firewood / half alight / to use the smoke of burning wormwood etc to repel insects | |
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| | insect / poisonous snake (archaic) | |
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| | to swarm (of insects) | |
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| | naiad / larva / developmental stage of insect | |
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| | front wing (of insect) | |
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| | bird writing, a calligraphic style based on seal script 篆書|篆书, but with characters decorated as birds and insects | |
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| | mouthparts (of animal or insect) | |
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| | cricket (insect) | |
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| | levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion | |
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| | crawling or creeping (of insects) | |
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| | (insect) | |
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| | boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest | |
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| | insect-catching leaf | |
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| | Waking from Hibernation / old variant of 驚蟄|惊蛰, Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th March | |
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| | scaly wing / Lepidoptera (insect order including butterflies 蝶類|蝶类 and moths 蛾類|蛾类) | |
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| | back wing (of insect) | |
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| | ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye) | |
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| | protective coloration (esp. of insects) / camouflage | |
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| | Hemiptera (suborder of order Homoptera, insects including cicadas and aphids) | |
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| | Homoptera (insect suborder including cicadas, aphids, plant-hoppers, shield bugs etc) | |
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| | a summer insect cannot discuss ice (idiom) | |
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| | exoskeleton (the carapace of insects, crabs etc) | |
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| | cochineal insect | |
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| | insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles) | |
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| | insect of the Gampsocleis genus (grasshoppers and crickets) / Gampsocleis sinensis | |
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| | insects | |
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| | Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc) | |
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| | hum / drone / buzz (of insects) | |
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| | a white paint applied to tree trunks to protect the trees from insect damage etc | |
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| | haltere (insect anatomy) | |
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| | DEET (insect repellent) (loanword) | |
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| | to swat an insect / to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs | |
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| | to sterilize; to disinfect / to kill; to exterminate (insects, pathogens etc) | |
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| | ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子) | |
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| | plant diseases and insect pests | |
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| | green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva / adopted son (Etymology: Wasps of a particular species take caterpillars to their nest as food for their offspring, but it was mistakenly believed that the wasps were raising the caterpillars as their own young.) | |
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| | Gryllolaptaptidae family of burrowing insects of order Orthoptera / mole crickets | |
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| | Cicadidae, homopterous insect family including cicada | |
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| | song of cicadas / chirping of insects | |
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| | DEET, an insect repellent | |
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| | Diptera (insect order including flies) | |
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