| | good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead | HSK 2 |
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| | to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul | HSK 7-9 |
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| | quick / alert / efficacious / effective / to come true / spirit / departed soul / coffin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soul; spirit; immortal soul (that can be detached from the body) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soul / spirit | HSK 7-9 |
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| | best feature / most important part of an object / quintessence / essence / soul | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wholeheartedly / heart and soul | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva | |
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| | soul and spirit of the deceased | |
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| | (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind | |
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| | soul / mind / idea | |
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| | mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die / (fig.) death | |
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| | the body (as opposed to the soul) | |
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| | intimate friend / soul mate | |
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| | Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva | |
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| | (literary) soul; mortal soul (i.e. attached to the body) | |
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| | variable / changeable / fickle / impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya) / ghost taking away the soul after death / to pass away / to die | |
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| | lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom) / fig. to be frightened stiff / spooked out of one's mind / terror-stricken | |
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| | inner heart / soul | |
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| | soul of the deceased / departed spirit | |
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| | lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated | |
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| | in the depth of one's soul | |
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| | lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom) / fig. the influence still lingers on / the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive | |
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| | Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva | |
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| | Feast of All Souls (fifteenth day of seventh lunar month) (Buddhism) | |
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| | potion given to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life (aka 孟婆汤) / magic potion; (fig.) bewitching words or actions | |
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| | potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence | |
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| | lit. red-bellied devotion (idiom); wholehearted loyalty / to serve sb with body and soul | |
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| | lit. body and soul separated (idiom); fig. scared out of one's wits / beside oneself | |
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| | seven mortal forms in Daoism, representing carnal life and desires / contrasted with 三魂 three immortal souls | |
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| | lit. to see profit and forget morality (idiom) / fig. to act from mercenary considerations; to sell one's soul | |
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| | to ask oneself / to search one's soul / to reach a conclusion after weighing a matter | |
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| | to put one's heart (and soul) into sth / with great care | |
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| | to take away sb's soul / (fig.) to captivate; to enchant | |
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| | (idiom) heart and soul; wholeheartedly | |
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| | to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill / (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc) | |
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| | long-term resident / permanent residence / eternalism (permanence of soul, Sanskrit Sassatavada) | |
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| | (idiom) lonely soul; solitary | |
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| | worn out in body and soul (idiom) | |
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| | to surpass / to transcend / to perform religious ceremonies to help the soul find peace | |
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| | three immortal souls and seven mortal forms in Daoism, contrasting the spiritual and carnal side of man | |
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| | to pray for the soul of a deceased | |
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| | soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with | |
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| | sex fiend / molester / sex attacker / sex demon (a spirit that enters people's souls and makes them desire sex) | |
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| | lonely soul | |
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| | lit. to stare at the ceiling while writing a book (idiom); to put one's whole body and soul into a book | |
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| | worn out in body and soul (idiom) | |
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| | wholeheartedly / (to devote oneself) heart and soul | |
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| | soul | |
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| | another name for Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 / Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls | |
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| | lit. to raise a banner to summon the soul of a dying person (idiom) / fig. to try to revive what is obsolete or dead | |
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| | with heart and soul | |
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| | chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives) | |
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| | annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda) | |
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| | spirit / soul | |
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| | body and soul / physical and spiritual / material form and internal spirit | |
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| | to subsist / to eke out a living / to keep body and soul together | |
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| | to put one's heart and soul into | |
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| | soul-stirring (of drama, poem or artwork) / heart-rending / deeply moving | |
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| | Gao Xingjian (1940-), Chinese novelist and Nobel laureate, author of Soul Mountain 靈山|灵山 | |
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| | soul / spirit | |
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| | three immortal souls in Daoism, representing spirit and intellect | |
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| | Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva | |
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| | Few words are best. / Brevity is the soul of wit. | |
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| | eternalism (permanence of soul, Sanskrit śāśvata-vāda) | |
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| | Peng Yangou, late Qing novelist, author of Black register of lost souls 黑籍冤魂 | |
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| | (often used disparagingly) feel-good motivational story or quote (from the Chinese translation of the title of the 1993 self-help bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul") | |
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| | annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda) | |
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| | not a soul in sight (idiom) | |
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| | a ritual whereby the living soul is brought to the nether world for a spiritual journey | |
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| | Black Register of Lost Souls, long novel by Peng Yangou 彭養鷗|彭养鸥 about the destructive influence of opium, published in 1897 and 1909 | |
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