| | iron (metal) / arms / weapons / hard / strong / violent / unshakeable / determined / close / tight (slang) | HSK 3 |
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| | to dissolve / to resolve (contradictions) / to dispel (doubts) / to iron out (difficulties) / to defuse (conflicts) / to neutralize (fears) | HSK 6 |
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| | to scald / to burn (by scalding) / to blanch (cooking) / to heat (sth) up in hot water / to perm / to iron / scalding hot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | galvanized iron | |
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| | metal hardware (nuts and bolts) / the five metals: gold, silver, copper, iron, tin 金銀銅鐵錫|金银铜铁锡 | |
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| | iron ore / iron ore mine | |
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| | (standing) very straight / straight as a ramrod / bolt upright / well-ironed / trim | |
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| | iron hoof (of the oppressor) | |
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| | earthen pot / iron cauldron | |
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| | molten iron | |
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| | triangle (musical instrument) / angle iron | |
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| | Iron Curtain (1945-1991) (In Taiwan, the word was used to refer to both the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain.) | |
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| | whip or lash / to flog / to whip / conductor's baton / segmented iron weapon (old) / penis (of animal, served as food) | |
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| | high quality iron | |
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| | iron panel / hot iron plate for fast grilling (Japanese: teppan) | |
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| | iron fist | |
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| | pig iron / foundry iron | |
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| | galvanized iron sheet (for building construction) | |
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| | clothes iron | |
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| | (coll.) to pump iron / to work out | |
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| | flatiron / iron / branding iron / soldering iron | |
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| | an iron / to iron | |
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| | iron tower | |
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| | hard iron / hook / variant of 巨 / variant of 詎|讵 | |
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| | iron cooking pot | |
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| | scrap iron | |
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| | window with an iron grating (apartment etc) / barred window of a prison cell | |
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| | lit. to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom) / fig. resolute and decisive; unhesitating; categorical | |
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| | lit. disappointed that iron does not turn into steel (idiom) / fig. frustrated with sb who has failed to meet one's expectations | |
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| | iron and steel works / steelworks | |
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| | to brand / to iron / to bake (in a pan) | |
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| | iron chain | |
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| | olivine (rock-forming mineral magnesium-iron silicate (Mg,Fe)2SiO4) / peridot | |
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| | to strike while the iron is hot | |
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| | copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense | |
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| | an iron ring | |
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| | non-ferrous metals (all metals excluding iron, chromium, manganese and their alloys) | |
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| | pig iron | |
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| | ferrous metals (i.e. iron, chromium, manganese and alloys containing them) | |
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| | use both carrot and stick / use gentle methods and force / an iron hand in a velvet glove | |
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| | meteor hammer (ancient weapon consisting of two iron balls connected by a chain) | |
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| | iron mask (as defensive armor) / fig. upright and selfless person | |
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| | to seize the opportunity / to strike while the iron is hot | |
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| | wrought iron | |
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| | wrought iron | |
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| | iron hoop | |
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| | strike the iron while it's hot (idiom) | |
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| | smelting iron | |
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| | hematite (red iron ore) / ferric oxide Fe2O3 | |
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| | lit. the iron tree blooms (idiom) / a highly improbable or extremely rare occurrence | |
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| | electric iron / electric soldering iron | |
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| | Iron Chancellor, refers to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, minister-president of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890 | |
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| | iron fist (of the state) | |
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| | iron chains / shackles / (onom.) clank | |
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| | angle iron | |
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| | made of iron / strong as iron | |
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| | secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl) | |
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| | iron shovel / spade / CL: 把 | |
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| | lit. General Iron is guarding the door (idiom) / fig. the door is padlocked — nobody inside | |
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| | to bend iron | |
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| | lit. a needle concealed in silk floss (idiom) / fig. ruthless character behind a gentle appearance / a wolf in sheep's clothing / an iron fist in a velvet glove | |
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| | Iron-Crutch Li, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙 in Chinese mythology, walking around with an iron crutch and carrying a gourd with special medicine | |
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| | (coll.) flashlight / (Tw) stun baton / (Tw) hair iron; hair tongs | |
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| | cast iron | |
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| | (literary) small halberd with an iron handle, used as a weapon or agricultural tool / (literary) to inlay / Taiwan pr. [se4] | |
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| | iron club / steel rod | |
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| | awl / sharp iron point | |
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| | to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently | |
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| | iron-gray (horse) | |
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| | iron pot / metal cap | |
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| | to temper (iron) / to flare back / flareback (in a gas burner) / (of an engine) to backfire | |
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| | natural copper / chalcopyrite / copper iron sulfide CuFeS2 | |
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| | white iron | |
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| | (literary) clothes iron | |
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| | big iron pot / cauldron / variant of 甑, rice pot | |
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| | to iron (clothes) | |
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| | (coll.) to pump iron | |
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| | rusty iron | |
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| | to press (clothes) / to iron out (wrinkles) | |
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| | iron egg, a Taiwanese snack made by stewing eggs in soy sauce and air-drying them each day for a week | |
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| | clothes iron | |
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| | Iron Man, comic book superhero | |
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| | (precise meaning unknown, relates to iron) / variant of 協|协 | |
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| | fillet beef served sizzling on a hot iron plate | |
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| | Baowu, the world's largest steel maker, resulting from the merger of Baosteel 寶鋼集團|宝钢集团 and Wuhan Iron and Steel 武漢鋼鐵|武汉钢铁 in 2016 | |
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| | (Cantonese) iron pipe (weapon) | |
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| | If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle. / cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently | |
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| | beck iron (corner of anvil) | |
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| | iron defense / defensive gate or wall (refers to the Great Wall) | |
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| | iron-cap prince in the Qing dynasty whose title can be passed on to subsequent generations without alteration | |
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| | stainless iron | |
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| | iron pellet / shrapnel | |
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| | curling iron | |
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| | iron hook at the end a long pole | |
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| | Wuhan Iron and Steel | |
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| | iron foundry | |
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| | to iron (clothes) | |
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| | angle iron | |
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