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  *干* | 干* | *干
(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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  *十* | 十* | *十
ten / 10
HSK 1
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  *萬* | 萬* | *萬
ten thousand / a great number
HSK 2
very / completely / utterly / extremely / absolutely / hundred percent / to divide into ten equal parts
HSK 2
ten million / countless / many / one must by all means
HSK 3
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  *甲* | 甲* | *甲
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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  *拾* | 拾* | *拾
to pick up / to collate or arrange / ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
HSK 5
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  *乙* | 乙* | *乙
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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  *丙* | 丙* | *丙
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
very much / extremely / one ten thousandth part
HSK 7-9
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom) / fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
HSK 7-9
the fabled roc flies ten thousand miles (idiom) / one's future prospects are brilliant
HSK 7-9
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
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  *斛* | 斛* | *斛
ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks)
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
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  *石* | 石* | *石
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou ; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2]
cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten
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  *己* | 己* | *己
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
more than ten; a dozen or more
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  *什* | 什* | *什
ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc) / assorted / miscellaneous
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  *庚* | 庚* | *庚
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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  *辛* | 辛* | *辛
(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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  *旬* | 旬* | *旬
ten days / ten years / full period
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋)
ten-pin bowling (loanword) / bowling ball
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  *戊* | 戊* | *戊
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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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
dry measure for grain equal to ten or one-tenth of a / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of
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  *癸* | 癸* | *癸
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
perpetual calendar / ten thousand year calendar / Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁
ten thousand or almost ten thousand
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  *w* | w* | *w
(Internet slang) ten thousand (abbr. for 萬|万)
(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people
tens of thousands / numerous
ten thousand strings of cash / very wealthy / millionaire
ten commandments
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  *壬* | 壬* | *壬
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
lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom) / fig. going full steam ahead
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘
ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey / a long and difficult road
a match for ten thousand enemies
ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out
ten-pin bowling / bowling ball / (baseball etc) ground ball
lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money / extremely wealthy / loaded
lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine
lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise
lit. ten thousand mile horse / fine steed
Tathagata, one of the ten sacred names of Buddha
lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains / a vast territory (idiom)
more than ten / a dozen or more
pin (ten-pin bowling)
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
the ten commandments (religion)
first ten days of a lunar month
ten days / one month / short period
a match for ten thousand enemies
ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly
last ten days of the lunar month
(literary) ten days / short period
ten thousand people / all the people / everyman
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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  *冓* | 冓* | *冓
inner rooms of palace / ten billions
full year / ten years
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
the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩, nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine
start of a ten day period
fairway (golf) / lane (ten-pin bowling)
ten thousand houses or households
the ten Heavenly Stems , , , , , , , , , (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
the tens place (or column) in the decimal system
(idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand
lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom) / fig. revenge is a dish best served cold
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
History of Ten States of South China (1669) by Wu Renchen 吳任臣|吴任臣, 114 scrolls
to roll a ball into the gutter (ten-pin bowling)
lit. read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom) / fig. acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience
over ten thousand / fig. untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
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
pay every ten days, give tribute every month (idiom); incessant and ever more complicated demands
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  *丈* | 丈* | *丈
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
Han of the Five dynasties (951-979), one of ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties, Ten Kingdoms period (907-960)
tenfold / ten times (sth)
Ten Permanent Functionaries at the end of Han, a byword for corruption
lit. in gambling, nine times out of ten you lose (idiom) / fig. gambling is a mug's game
ten items / decathlon (athletics)
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
several tens of thousands / many thousand
ten days
ten days
test every ten day / periodic deadline
the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August
first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干
ten years of practice for one minute on the stage (idiom)
lit. ten thousand fathoms / fig. extremely high or deep / lofty / bottomless
the ten thousands place (or column) in the decimal system
World Wide Web (WWW) / lit. ten-thousand dimensional net covering heaven and earth / term coined by China News Digest and abbr. to 萬維網|万维网
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  *袠* | 袠* | *袠
variant of / variant of / (classifier) ten years
various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子, Mohism by Mozi 墨子, Legalism by Sunzi 孫子|孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子, and numerous others


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