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| | (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 / (archaic) shield | HSK 1 |
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| | ten thousand / a great number | HSK 2 |
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| | very / completely / utterly / extremely / absolutely / hundred percent / to divide into ten equal parts | HSK 2 |
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| | ten million / countless / many / one must by all means | HSK 3 |
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| | second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105° | HSK 5 |
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| | to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral) | HSK 5 |
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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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| | very much / extremely / one ten thousandth part | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom) / one's future prospects are brilliant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc) / assorted / miscellaneous | |
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| | dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] | |
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| | cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten | |
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| | self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa | |
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| | age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta | |
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| | (of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa | |
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| | measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male | |
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| | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands | |
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| | ten days / ten years / full period | |
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| | ten-pin bowling (loanword) / bowling ball | |
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| | tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / tenth in order / letter "J" or Roman "X" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 15° / deca | |
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| | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom) / fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless | |
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| | lit. ten thousand fathoms / fig. extremely high or deep / lofty / bottomless | |
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| | more than ten; a dozen or more | |
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| | perpetual calendar / ten thousand year calendar / Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁 | |
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| | ten thousand or almost ten thousand | |
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| | fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / fifth in order / letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / penta | |
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| | (Internet slang) ten thousand (abbr. for 萬|万) | |
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| | ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / ninth in order / letter "I" or Roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 345° / nona | |
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| | (idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people | |
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| | tens of thousands / numerous | |
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| | ten thousand strings of cash / very wealthy / millionaire | |
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| | ten commandments | |
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| | lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom) / fig. going full steam ahead | |
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| | Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘 | |
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| | ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey / a long and difficult road | |
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| | a match for ten thousand enemies | |
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| | lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains / a vast territory (idiom) | |
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| | ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out | |
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| | Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China | |
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| | ten-pin bowling / bowling ball / (baseball etc) ground ball | |
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| | lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money / extremely wealthy / loaded | |
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| | Han of the Five dynasties (951-979), one of ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms period (907-960) | |
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| | ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks) | |
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| | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands | |
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| | Tathagata, one of the ten sacred names of Buddha | |
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| | more than ten / a dozen or more | |
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| | pin (ten-pin bowling) | |
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| | ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly | |
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| | lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands | |
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| | first ten days of a lunar month | |
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| | lit. ten thousand mile horse / fine steed | |
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| | lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail | |
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| | a match for ten thousand enemies | |
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| | last ten days of the lunar month | |
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| | (literary) ten days / short period | |
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| | ten thousand people / all the people / everyman | |
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| | inner rooms of palace / ten billions | |
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| | lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise | |
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| | dry measure for grain equal to ten 升 or one-tenth of a 石 / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of 陡 | |
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| | Suzhou numerals, i.e. the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩,〸 nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine / also called 草碼|草码 | |
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| | one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / short attention span | |
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| | full year / ten years | |
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| | Ten Permanent Functionaries at the end of Han, a byword for corruption | |
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| | the ten commandments (religion) | |
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| | variant of 帙 / variant of 秩 / (classifier) ten years | |
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| | one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
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| | Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋) | |
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| | the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩, 十 nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine | |
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| | ten days / one month / short period | |
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| | start of a ten day period | |
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| | tenfold / ten times (sth) | |
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| | fairway (golf) / lane (ten-pin bowling) | |
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| | the third of the three annual periods of hot weather ( 三伏), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August | |
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| | ten thousand houses or households | |
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| | lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine | |
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| | lit. read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom) / fig. acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience | |
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| | over ten thousand / fig. untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands | |
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| | the ten Heavenly Stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III) | |
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| | Wu Renchen (1628-1689), Qing dynasty polymath and historian, author of History of Ten States of South China 十國春秋|十国春秋 | |
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| | pay every ten days, give tribute every month (idiom); incessant and ever more complicated demands | |
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| | (idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand | |
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| | once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope / once bitten, twice shy (idiom) | |
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| | the tens place (or column) in the decimal system | |
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| | History of Ten States of South China (1669) by Wu Renchen 吳任臣|吴任臣, 114 scrolls | |
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| | lit. in gambling, nine times out of ten you lose (idiom) / fig. gambling is a mug's game | |
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| | ten items / decathlon (athletics) | |
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| | lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom) / fig. revenge is a dish best served cold | |
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| | rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom) | |
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| | the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle | |
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| | several tens of thousands / many thousand | |
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| | test every ten day / periodic deadline | |
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| | to roll a ball into the gutter (ten-pin bowling) | |
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| | first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 | |
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| | listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb) | |
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| | ten years of practice for one minute on the stage (idiom) | |
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| | the ten thousands place (or column) in the decimal system | |
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