| | wall (CL: 面, 堵) / (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙) | HSK 2 |
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| | road; path (CL: 條|条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | city walls / city / town / CL: 座, 道, 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | the Great Wall | HSK 3 |
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| | to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls) | HSK 4 |
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| | (of a person) short / (of a wall etc) low / (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than) | HSK 4 |
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| | wall | HSK 5 |
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| | paint / lacquer / CL: 道 / to paint (furniture, walls etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | brick / tile (floor or wall, not roof) / CL: 塊|块 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | city wall | HSK 7-9 |
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| | perimeter wall / fence / CL: 道 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Kowloon Walled City | |
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| | Berlin Wall | |
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| | lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom) / fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship | |
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| | the area north of the Great Wall | |
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| | Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination | |
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| | incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old) | |
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| | Jiayu Pass in Gansu, at the western terminus of the Great Wall | |
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| | fortresses and mountains (along the Great Wall) / one's hometown | |
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| | roof / topmost part / top (of tree, wall etc) / apex | |
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| | walled-in path / paved pathway / canopied passageway / corridor / tunnel | |
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| | wall | |
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| | a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy) | |
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| | to climb a wall / (fig.) to be unfaithful | |
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| | corner (between walls) | |
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| | the surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall) | |
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| | wall lamp / bracket light / CL: 盞|盏 | |
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| | to close by coming together (like the lips of a wound, the doors of an elevator, the walls of a channel) / to close by connecting in a loop (like a circuit) / closed-loop | |
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| | lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients | |
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| | low wall | |
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| | low wall | |
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| | wall clock | |
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| | moat (surrounding the city wall) | |
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| | wall / rampart | |
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| | (usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc) | |
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| | to wiggle / to squirm / peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall) | |
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| | wall chart | |
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| | wall | |
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| | used in 塕埲 / (Cantonese) classifier for walls | |
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| | to plaster / whitewash (wall) | |
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| | (old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction; (fig.) mainstay; pillar; backbone | |
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| | the Great Wall | |
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| | horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall / shallow round woven bamboo basket | |
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| | partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition | |
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| | corner (junction of two walls) | |
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| | lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down | |
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| | copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense | |
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| | a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action | |
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| | lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs | |
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| | to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白) | |
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| | foot of a wall | |
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| | soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture | |
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| | wall scroll (for painting or calligraphy) / banner | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | cat burglar / burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls / intruding enemy airman / air marauder | |
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| | to point a brick wall / to grout a tiled surface | |
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| | (literary) screen wall shielding an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture | |
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| | wall newspaper | |
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| | wall newspaper | |
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| | crenelated parapet wall | |
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| | cell wall | |
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| | lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal | |
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| | wall calendar | |
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| | tariff wall | |
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| | a room / the wall of a house / a man's name | |
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| | (military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain | |
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| | moss / lichen / moss on damp walls / used erroneously for 蘇|苏 | |
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| | crenelated parapet wall | |
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| | Berlin Wall | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | hill cemetery / graveyard / grave / grave mound / low wall at the back of a traditional tomb | |
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| | to hit a wall / (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face | |
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| | (of cliffs etc) stand like a wall / rise steeply | |
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| | Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978-1979), and bulletin boards inspired by it, in some Hong Kong universities | |
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| | raised bank / mud wall | |
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| | a low stone wall built along the water's edge to protect an embankment / revetment | |
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| | a second wall built around a city wall | |
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| | unplastered masonry wall | |
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| | human barricade; (soccer) defensive wall | |
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| | Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem) | |
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| | (old) territories beyond the Great Wall | |
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| | wall around a market place | |
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| | moss under old walls | |
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| | tapestry (used as a wall hanging) | |
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| | lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul | |
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| | to face the wall / to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism) / (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc | |
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| | (old) territories north of the Great Wall | |
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| | high walls and deep moat (idiom); impenetrable defense | |
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| | to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle | |
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| | outer city wall | |
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| | collapsed wall / ruined wall | |
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| | lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched | |
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| | (of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground) | |
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| | facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication | |
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| | dilapidated wall / to break through a wall / (fig.) to break through / (biotechnology) to disrupt cell walls / cell disruption | |
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| | fortified wall / city wall | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | a city wall | |
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