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gray / ash gray / grizzly / pessimistic / gloomy / dispirited / ambiguous
HSK 5
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ash / dust / lime / gray / discouraged; dejected
HSK 7-9
dust
HSK 7-9
to lose heart / to be discouraged
HSK 7-9
ash-colored
cannon fodder
ashes
(bird species of China) slaty-blue flycatcher (Ficedula tricolor)
grayscale
discouraged / downhearted
dull gray / drab / murky
dusky / overcast (of weather)
to plaster / to render (a wall) / (fig.) to bring shame on / also pr. [mo4 hui1]
apatite / phosphatic limestone
bone ash / cremation ashes; cremains
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
dull gray / gloomy / dejected / crestfallen / with one's tail between one's legs
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke
(bird species of China) red-headed bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythrocephala)
grizzly bear
head and face filthy with grime (idiom) / covered in dirt / dejected and depressed
every hope turns to dust (idiom); completely disheartened
soot
dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol
(bird species of China) Himalayan owl (Strix nivicolum)
(idiom) a slight effort
downhearted / downcast / in despair
lime plaster (construction)
gray collar / specialist / technical worker / engineer
discouraged / downhearted
(bird species of China) white-cheeked starling (Spodiopsar cineraceus)
mortar (for masonry)
gloomy and dull (idiom) / boring and gray / unpleasantly murky
cement
Cinderella / a sudden rags-to-riches celebrity
(neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust
ash from burnt paper
(bird species of China) black-faced bunting (Emberiza spodocephala)
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law
dark gray
gray water
box for bone ashes / funerary casket
big bad wolf
to blow away dust
ashtray
limestone
(bird species of China) Blyth's tragopan (Tragopan blythii)
ash gray
poliomyelitis
volcanic ash
lime (calcium oxide)
gunmetal gray
(bird species of China) common crane (Grus grus)
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law / also written 扒灰
limestone (abbr. for 石灰岩) / CL: 塊|块
(bird species of China) grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
slaked lime / hydrated lime
lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt / fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff
greyhound
calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 / slaked lime
(bird species of China) grey-backed thrush (Turdus hortulorum)
dust haze / dust storm
(bird species of China) Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
granny gray (hair color)
(bird species of China) greylag goose (Anser anser)
(bird species of China) northern shrike (Lanius borealis)
(bird species of China) grey-chinned minivet (Pericrocotus solaris)
(bird species of China) azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyanus)
(bird species of China) moustached laughingthrush (Ianthocincla cineracea)
(bird species of China) merlin (Falco columbarius)
(bird species of China) azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus)
(bird species of China) grey-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
(bird species of China) Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus)
calcium oxide CaO / quicklime
limestone
(bird species of China) great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus)
(bird species of China) ashy-throated warbler (Phylloscopus maculipennis)
(bird species of China) grey sibia (Heterophasia gracilis)
(bird species of China) grey-tailed tattler (Tringa brevipes)
(bird species of China) grey treepie (Dendrocitta formosae)
(bird species of China) ashy woodswallow (Artamus fuscus)
(bird species of China) ashy bulbul (Hemixos flavala)
(bird species of China) slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
(bird species of China) grey-sided laughingthrush (Pterorhinus caerulatus)
(bird species of China) pale-legged leaf warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes)
(bird species of China) grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus)
fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
(bird species of China) grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus)
(bird species of China) grey-headed bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythaca)
(bird species of China) Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis)
hydroxy-apatite (phosphatic lime deposited in bone)
ashen-faced (idiom)
columbarium
as easy as blowing off dust / effortless / with ease
(bird species of China) southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
(bird species of China) Swinhoe's minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis)
lit. to rub one's nose with dust / to suffer a snub / to meet with a rebuff
radioactive fallout

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