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military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to inherit / to succeed to (the throne etc) / to carry on (a tradition etc)
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *沿* | 沿* | *沿
along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge
HSK 6
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
HSK 7-9
to pass on / to hand down / tradition has it that ... / according to legend
HSK 7-9
to take orders / to receive commands / to carry on (a tradition)
HSK 7-9
long (tradition, history etc)
HSK 7-9
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原, Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues
the earliest ancestor / originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
orthodoxy; tradition / orthodox; traditional / principles of dynastic succession / (of an heir) legitimate
style of study / academic atmosphere / school discipline / school traditions
handed down in a family / family traditions
authentic tradition / handed-down teachings or techniques
tradition or style from the past / old ways / surviving tradition / relic
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嗣* | 嗣* | *嗣
succession (to a title) / to inherit / continuing (a tradition) / posterity
the rules and discipline that apply within a family / stick used for punishing children or servants / traditions of an artistic or academic school of thought, passed on from master to pupil
family tradition / family principles
to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom); conservative / stickler for tradition
(name) Ibrahim or Ebrahim / Ibrahim, a revered prophet in Islam, known as Abraham in the Judeo-Christian tradition
the Pali language or, more broadly, the scriptural and literary tradition of Theravada Buddhism
popular tradition / folk legend
Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家
Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
cultural tradition
Zhao Gongming, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
Liang Shuming (1893-1988), modern philosopher and teacher in the neo-Confucian tradition
name day (tradition of celebrating a given name on a certain day of the year)
ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
to scrupulously observe (rules, traditions etc)
Sufism (Islamic mystic tradition)
Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
heritage / the continuation (of a tradition)
lit. a following echo / fig. to continue (a tradition)
Marshal Zhao, aka Zhao Gongming or Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk tradition and Taoism
Zheng Guangzu, Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition)
Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原, Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues


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