| | gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | iron (metal) / arms / weapons / hard / strong / violent / unshakeable / determined / close / tight (slang) | HSK 3 |
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| | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° | HSK 5 |
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| | to create / to build / to develop / to forge (of metal) | HSK 6 |
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| | to melt (metal) / to cancel; to annul / to sell / to expend; to spend / pin; bolt / to fasten with a pin or bolt | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bubble / blister (in metal) / (of beverages) sparkling / carbonated | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pour liquid / to irrigate (using waterwheel) / to water / to cast (molten metal) / to mold | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cast (pour metal into a mold) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to fire pots and smelt metal / fig. to educate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | pool / pond / (of metals etc) luster / favor or beneficence / damp / moist | |
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| | to inspect metal for flaws (using X-ray or ultrasound etc) | |
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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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| | five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 | |
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| | plaited matting (of rushes, bamboo etc) / silkworm basket / metal foil / foil paper | |
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| | to stamp; to press (sheet metal) / Taiwan pr. [chong1ya1] | |
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| | to smelt metal | |
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| | floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc) | |
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| | sheet metal working / auto body repair work / panel beating | |
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| | (archaic) wooden or metal token of authority / (fig.) decree / directive / (computing) token | |
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| | (of metal) to rust; to become rusty / (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate | |
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| | shining metal / (old) the 16th of the month (abbreviation used in telegrams) | |
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| | to melt (of ice, metals etc) | |
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| | to cast or found metals | |
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| | treasure / hard metal | |
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| | to forge (metal) / forging | |
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| | to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process | |
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| | armored horse / cavalry / metal chimes hanging from eaves / steel barricade / (Tw) bike | |
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| | clang of metals / small gong | |
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| | short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc) | |
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| | ancient weapon like a long solid metal truncheon | |
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| | to cast (metal) | |
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| | metal plate / sheet of metal | |
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| | to melt down / to remelt (metals) / fig. to acquire new education / to bake again | |
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| | a forced draft (of wind, for smelting metal) / blast (in blast furnace) / bellows / to draw air using bellows | |
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| | thin plates of metal | |
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| | to cast (molten metal) / to mold | |
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| | (onom.) clang / clank of metal / sound of striking a gong | |
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| | (onom.) clang / jingling of metals / to strike | |
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| | colored / non-white / non-ferrous (metals) | |
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| | to cast in metal / (fig.) to forge / to fashion | |
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| | rust spot; rust stain (on metal) / rusty spot (on plants) | |
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| | lit. metal and stone yield to power of sincerity (idiom) / fig. no difficulty is insurmountable if one is sincere | |
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| | metal and stone / fig. hard objects / inscription on metal or bronze | |
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| | metal window | |
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| | lit. secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom) / fig. well fortified; invulnerable to attack | |
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| | horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt | |
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| | lit. public opinion is powerful enough to melt metal (idiom) / fig. public clamor can obscure the actual truth / mass spreading of rumors can confuse right and wrong | |
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| | metal utensil / mounting / fitting | |
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| | clank / clang / sound of metal | |
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| | large metal plate for making bean curd / metal pot for warming wine | |
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| | metal helmet / (military) helmet | |
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| | bell-cauldron script / the 籀文 form of Chinese character used in metal inscriptions | |
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| | to encase the end with metal | |
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| | iron pot / metal cap | |
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| | to engrave (metal of wood) | |
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| | a kind of metal or jade ornament worn in ancient times to ward off evil spirits | |
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| | troy weight, system of weights for precious metals and gemstones based on the 12-ounce pound (or 5,760 grains) | |
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| | metal plate | |
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| | (ancient weight) / metal ring | |
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| | metal | |
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| | americium (chemistry) (Tw) / (archaic) metal chain | |
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| | to transform gold into base metal (idiom); fig. to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin it | |
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| | a kind of metal or jade ornament worn in ancient times to ward off evil spirits | |
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| | ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music | |
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| | The Shining (1980 Stanley Kubrick film from Stephen King's 1977 novel) / ChthoniC (Taiwanese metal band) | |
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| | metal trunk / metal box / a safe | |
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| | a buckle or fastener for clothing that does not use a button and buttonhole (e.g. the buckle on metal wristwatches) | |
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| | metal grille / railing / bars | |
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| | metal pot | |
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| | lava, magma or other molten material (metal, glass etc) | |
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| | bucking bar (metal bar fixing the tail of a rivet as it is driven) | |
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| | transition metal (chemistry) | |
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| | scrap metal / steel scrap | |
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| | heavy metal | |
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| | (military) caltrop (spiky metal device laid on the ground to create a hazard for enemy horses or troops in ancient times) | |
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| | pewter (alloy of tin 錫|锡, lead 鉛|铅 and other metals) | |
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| | to quench (a metal workpiece) | |
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| | mithril (fictional metal) | |
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| | molten metal | |
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| | pewter (alloy of tin 錫|锡, lead 鉛|铅 and other metals) | |
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| | hot treatment (e.g. of metal) | |
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| | to flatten out (paper, film, metal plates etc) | |
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| | Rammstein (German metal band) | |
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| | alkali metal | |
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| | a blast furnace (in modern times) / a draft assisted furnace for smelting metals | |
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| | metal wire | |
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| | to heat evenly (e.g. in smelting metal) | |
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| | iron lattice / metal grid | |
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| | dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan | |
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| | (in ceramics, lacquerware etc) the base (made of clay, metal, bamboo etc) onto which a glaze, lacquer or other decorative elements are applied | |
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| | metal rod | |
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| | symphonic metal (pop music) / heavy metal with symphonic pretensions | |
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| | a furnace for smelting metal | |
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| | relief printing / typography / printing with metal plates | |
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| | Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects) | |
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| | scrap metal / a pile of junk | |
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| | to make (by hammering, chipping etc) / to forge (silverware, metal implements etc) | |
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| | drawing (manufacturing process in which hot metal or glass is stretched) | |
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| | (arch.) metal horn attached as shield to horse or to the axle of a chariot | |
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