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cruel / cruelty
HSK 6
savage / cruel / fierce
HSK 7-9
savage
HSK 7-9
disabled / maimed / crippled / (of objects) damaged
HSK 7-9
broken flower, withered willow (idiom); fig. fallen woman
to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom); conservative / stickler for tradition
cruel / mean / merciless / ruthless
HSK 7-9
disabled / handicapped / deformity on a person or animal
HSK 6
badly damaged / shattered
HSK 7-9
handicapped
to remain; to be left over / residual; remnant / residue
HSK 7-9
to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife
the injured / wounded personnel
disabled person
HSK 6
to clear up the mess / to pick up the pieces
deformity / handicapped
China Disabled Persons' Federation (abbr. for 中國殘疾人聯合會|中国残疾人联合会)
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
sick or disabled / invalid / disability
to ravage / to ruin
residual value
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  *残* | 残* | *残
to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus
HSK 7-9
to help people with disabilities
remnant / residue / material left over
remnant enemy troops
(physiology) afterimage; (photography) motion blur; (computer screen) ghosting; (fig.) lingering memory
defective goods
moronic / brainless / bonehead / retard
Winter Paralympics
surviving section of a classic work / remaining chapters (while reading a book)
stump (of a limb) / severed limb
one's late days / to have one foot in the grave
defective goods
to injure / to devastate / to slaughter
(slang) fanboy / fangirl
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
final days of the lunar year
(coll.) klutz
ruined army, defeated general (idiom); scattered remnants
litter / trash
the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated
Paralympic Games
lingering fragrance
stubble
cruelty
a child with a birth defect / a deformed child
to survive / remnant
remaining years of one's life
cruel and unfeeling (idiom)
residual contamination
leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others
leftovers from a meal
at the end of the year (idiom)
to harm people and damage property (idiom)
defeated remnants / scattered survivors
Paralympics / same as Paralympic Games 殘奧會|残奥会
waning moon
mogote (steep-sided pointed hill in karst landform)
The Travels of Lao Tsan, novel by late Qing novelist Liu E 劉鶚|刘鹗
endgame (in chess) / desperate situation / aftermath (of a failure)
to massacre / to slaughter
remnant / relic / residue / vestige / surplus / to remain / to leave surplus
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
dilapidated / in ruins
broken / dilapidated
to destroy
remainder / filtered out residue / sediment / waste product / debris / detritus / rubbish
China Disabled Persons' Federation
brutal; vicious; ruthless
evil elements who have escaped eradication
to be crippled (in an accident etc)
(literary) ruined walls / ruins
remains / wreckage
defective; inferior in quality
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
extant fragment (of book)
stubble (the stems of plants after harvest)
(idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door
to live out the rest of one's life
conservative / to preserve the outmoded
Liu E (1857-1909), late Qing novelist, author of 老殘遊記|老残游记
spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal / crumbs from the feast
to mutilate oneself / self-harm
(coll.) to regret / what a pity! (loanword from Japanese "zannen")
close kindred slaughter one another (idiom); internecine strife
to gather and patch up sth that is badly damaged (idiom)
leftover agricultural plastic (as waste or rubbish that needs to be disposed of or recycled)
cruel / to treat cruelly
broken flower, withered willow (idiom); fig. fallen woman
remaining breath / last gasp


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