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  *月* | 月* | *月
moon / month / monthly / CL: 個|个, 輪|轮
HSK 1
the moon
HSK 2
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  *陰* | 陰* | *陰
overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia
HSK 2
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  *圓* | 圓* | *圓
circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
HSK 4
the moon
HSK 5
satellite / moon / CL: 顆|颗
HSK 5
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  *望* | 望* | *望
full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards
HSK 7-9
to go down a hill / (of the sun or moon) to set
HSK 7-9
Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology) / one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft
HSK 7-9
bright moon / refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL: 輪|轮
the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month
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  *暈* | 暈* | *暈
dizzy / halo / ring around moon or sun
Sun Moon Lake in Nantou County, Taiwan
the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood
half-moon / fortnight
new moon / crescent
full moon / whole month / baby's one-month old birthday
wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance / love affair / romance is in the air / dissipated life
lit. lovely flowers, round moon (idiom); fig. everything is wonderful / perfect happiness / conjugal bliss
full moon / first full moon after birth (i.e. entering the second month)
the moon and the stars
the sun, the moon, and the stars
full moon
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  *蟾* | 蟾* | *蟾
toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking) / (mythology) the three-legged toad said to exist in the moon / (metonym) the moon
crescent moon
to go (up) to the moon
to climb a hill / to go to the mountains / (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons) / to pass away / (of the sun or moon) to rise
extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
to admire the full moon
full moon
rising (sun, moon etc)
to wind up a watch, clockwork toy etc / to tighten the string of a bow, violin etc / first quarter (phase of the moon)
phase of the moon
lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure / to group around a revered leader / to revolve around sb
lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom) / fig. an unrealistic rosy view / viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles / also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花
third quarter moon, aka last quarter moon
to land on the moon
Titan (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn VI
lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom) / fig. peaceful and clear night / (allusively) living a solitary and quiet life
lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom) / fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world
to stroll beneath the moon
the moon
ring around the moon / lunar halo / solar halo
waning moon
lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon) / fig. to succeed in the imperial examination
lit. light breeze and clear moon (idiom) / period of peace and prosperity / noble and benevolent character
lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil / a contrasting character to a main hero
(literary) beautiful woman / (literary) lovely; graceful / (literary) the moon
the Moon (esp. in Daoism)
the Jade Hare (legendary rabbit said to live in the Moon) / the Moon
(ancient Chinese astrology) Yuebei, a heavenly body postulated to exist at the apogee of the Moon's orbit, hindering the Moon's progress
lit. to scoop the moon out of the water (idiom) / fig. a hopeless endeavor
to burst with joy (idiom) / to be over the moon / to be elated
lit. a meteor catching up with the moon / swift action (idiom)
waxing crescent (moon)
full moon
Palace in the Moon (in folk tales)
lunar eclipse / eclipse of the moon
new moon / first day of the lunar month
lit. many nights under a harsh moon / long years of oppression (idiom)
lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)
half-moon / the 7th and 8th and 22nd and 23rd of the lunar month
jade ice jug and autumn moon (idiom, from poem by Song writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡); fig. spotless white and pure / flawless person
(astronomy) the moon's path around the earth / legitimate, lawful activities (contrasted with 黑道) / law-abiding citizenry
moon snail (sea snail of the Naticidae family)
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  *朓* | 朓* | *朓
(literary) the appearance of the moon in the west at the end of a lunar month
the halo of the moon
the sun and moon shine once more / fig. things get back to normal after an upheaval
lit. countenance of a flower, face like the moon (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) beautiful
the full moon / the fifteenth day of each lunar month
last quarter, aka third quarter (phase of the moon)
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  *朏* | 朏* | *朏
(literary) (of the crescent moon) to begin to shine
the new moon / the first day of the lunar month
lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom) / fig. the passage of time
the sun and moon like a shuttle (idiom); How time flies!
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  *朣* | 朣* | *朣
light from the rising moon
ring around the moon / lunar halo
Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis, on the moon)
the seven planets of premodern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)
neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter)
the intersection of the Moon's orbit with the ecliptic in Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit rahu)
Titan (race of deities in Greek mythology, moon of Saturn etc)
moon
to fly to the moon
crescent moon / crescent shape
the bright moon
Ghosts' festival on 15th day of 7th moon
Moon Jae-in (1953-), Korean politician and human rights lawyer, president of Korea from 2017
heavenly bodies (esp. the sun, moon or five visible planets)
full moon / waxing gibbous moon
Europa (moon of Jupiter), aka Jupiter II
eclipsis (of the moon or sun)
partial eclipse of the moon
moon rock
waning moon / to wane
to wish for the stars and the moon / to have unreal expectations
Callisto (moon of Jupiter), aka Jupiter IV
Ban Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general 2007-2016
(of seeds etc) to fall to the ground / (of the sun or moon) to set
the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project

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