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| | to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing fire / ☲ | HSK 2 |
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| | gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL: 頓｜顿) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿) | HSK 3 |
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| | earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | to shake / to vibrate / to jolt / to quake / excited / shocked / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing thunder / ☳ | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / gossip / gossipy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest) | |
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| | divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經｜易经 | |
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| | to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing wood and wind / ☴ / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast) | |
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| | twenty | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest) | |
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| | rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | |
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| | Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900 | |
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| | to cash / to exchange / to add (liquid) / to blend / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing swamp / ☱ | |
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| | twenty-sixth year F2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2009 or 2069 | |
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| | twenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams) | |
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| | to divine using the eight trigrams | |
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| | Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國｜战国 / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉｜魏晋 (3rd century AD) | |
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| | the eight points of the compass / all directions | |
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| | pit / threshold / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing water / ☵ | |
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| | nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙 | |
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| | the eight precepts (Buddhism) | |
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| | lit. the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing his own special talent (idiom) / fig. (of each individual in a group) to give full play to one's unique capabilities | |
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| | old-fashioned square table to seat eight people | |
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| | eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics | |
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| | the eight influential points (acupuncture) | |
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| | "the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, abbr. for 八大元老 | |
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| | (Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells | |
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| | bushel (eight gallons) | |
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| | Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year | |
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| | Ba Jia Jiang, the eight generals that guard the godly realm in Taiwanese folklore, represented by troupes of dancers in temple processions / (slang) lowlife gangster or young hoodlum, often written as "8+9", [ba1 jia1 jiu3] | |
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| | eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties | |
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| | the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year | |
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| | the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story | |
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| | eight methods of treatment (TCM) | |
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| | the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), covered by the acronym 苦集滅道｜苦集灭道: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅｜灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 | |
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| | the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty | |
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| | an essay in eight parts / stereotyped writing | |
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| | sloping eyebrows, formed like character for "eight" | |
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| | Ba Ji Quan "Eight Extremes Fist" - Martial Art | |
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| | Jiusan Society, one of the eight political parties of the CCP | |
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| | History of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, twenty second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed under Toktoghan 脫脫｜脱脱 in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty 元, 135 scrolls | |
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| | the Japanese Twenty-One Demands of 1915 | |
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| | the twenty-eight constellations | |
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| | twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions) | |
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| | Eight Banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911 | |
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| | the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦, e.g. ☶ | |
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| | Iron-Crutch Li, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙 in Chinese mythology, walking around with an iron crutch and carrying a gourd with special medicine | |
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| | the Eight-fold Noble Way (Buddhism) | |
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| | precepts regarding what is honorable and what is shameful (in particular, refers to the Socialist Concepts on Honors and Disgraces, PRC official moral principles promulgated from 2006) / abbr. for 社會主義榮辱觀｜社会主义荣辱观 / also known as the Eight Honors and Eight Shames 八榮八恥｜八荣八耻 | |
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| | ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲｜丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music | |
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| | eight (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / split | |
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| | twenty; 20 | |
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| | History of the Yuan Dynasty, twenty third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Song Lian 宋濂 in 1370 during the Ming Dynasty, 210 scrolls | |
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| | third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet | |
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| | twenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070 | |
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| | twenty-third year C11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2006 or 2066 | |
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| | regular verse / strict poetic form with eight lines of 5, 6 or 7 syllables and even lines rhyming | |
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| | the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology) | |
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| | Eight Banners, military organization of Manchu later Jin dynasty 後金｜后金 from c. 1600, subsequently of the Qing dynasty | |
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| | twenty-ninth year I5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2012 or 2072 | |
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| | twenty-second year B10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2005 or 2065 | |
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| | grade 8 worker (highest on the eight grade wage scale) / top-grade worker | |
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| | twenty-fifth year E1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2008 or 2068 | |
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| | four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍｜青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武 | |
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| | twenty, twentieth | |
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| | palanquin with eight carriers / (fig.) lavish treatment | |
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| | eight-hour working day | |
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| | twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067 | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing mountain / ☶ / ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast) | |
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| | eight grade wage scale (system) | |
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| | formal recommendation letter in eight columns | |
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| | twenty-eighth year H4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2011 or 2071 | |
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| | the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism) | |
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| | (TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction | |
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| | (Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦 | |
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| | eight year H8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1991 or 2051 | |
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| | wording (of a proposal) / formulation / viewpoint (on an issue) / (one of eight methods of bonesetting in TCM) restoring the part displaced by a fracture to its correct position by lifting | |
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| | Liuhe Bafa - "Six Harmonies, Eight Methods" - Martial Art | |
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| | Manchu / bannerman (refers to the eight Manchu banners 八旗) | |
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| | three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation | |
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| | History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉｜张廷玉 in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls | |
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| | eight surges (a group of eight acupoints in Chinese acupuncture, namely PC-9, TB-1, HT-9 and LV-3, bilaterally) | |
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| | "eight" component in Chinese characters / old variant of 八 | |
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| | Su Zhe (1039-1112), Song writer and politician, one of the Three Su's 三蘇｜三苏 and also one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家 | |
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| | Zeng Gong (1019-1083), Song dynasty writer, one of the eight giants 唐宋八大家 | |
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| | (sports) top eight / quarterfinals | |
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| | eight-treasure decoction, tonic formula used in Chinese medicine | |
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| | the eight provinces of Yi dynasty Korea | |
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| | Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Song dynasty politician and writer, one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家 | |
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| | the eight giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動｜古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈｜韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修｜欧阳修, the three Su's 三蘇｜三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏｜曾巩 | |
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| | Su Xun (1009-1066), Song essayist, one of the Three Su's 三蘇｜三苏 and also one of Eight Giants 唐宋八大家 | |
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| | Emperor Aidi of Tang, reign name of twenty-first and last Tang emperor Li Zhu 李祝 (892-908), reigned 904-907 | |
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| | the famous eight beautiful and talented courtesans who lived near the Qinhuai River 秦淮河 in the late Ming or early Qing | |
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| | Su Shi (1037-1101), aka Su Dongpo 蘇東坡｜苏东坡, Song dynasty writer, calligrapher and public official, one of the Three Su's 三蘇｜三苏 and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家 | |
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| | G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations) | |
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| | the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime | |
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| | (PRC) China Zhi Gong Party, one of the eight legally recognized minor political parties following the direction of the CCP | |
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