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| | feather / plumage / plume | |
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| | feather / 5th note in pentatonic scale | |
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| | Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor | |
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| | levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion | |
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| | wing / (fig.) assistant | |
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| | down (soft feathers) | |
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| | the Saint of War (i.e. the deified Guan Yu 關羽｜关羽) | |
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| | badminton / shuttlecock | |
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| | Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama | |
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| | armed escort | |
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| | lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦｜刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽｜项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion | |
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| | henchmen | |
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| | battledore and shuttlecock / shuttlecock | |
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| | Nichang, abbr. for the Tang Dynasty song "Raiment of Rainbows and Feathers" 霓裳羽衣曲 or 霓裳羽衣舞 | |
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| | to shed feathers / to molt (of birds) | |
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| | feathered crest (of bird) | |
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| | lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦｜刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽｜项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion | |
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| | Haneda (one of the two main airports serving Tokyo) | |
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| | pinion | |
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| | (literary) (lit.) to cripple the wings of a bird / (literary) (fig.) depressed; despondent; defeated | |
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| | Lu Yu (733-804), Chinese writer from Tang dynasty, known for his obsession with tea | |
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| | the poisonous feathers of the legendary bird Zhen 鴆｜鸩 | |
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| | Pang De (-219), general of Cao Wei at the start of the Three Kingdoms period, victor over Guan Yu 關羽｜关羽 / Pound (name) / Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet and translator | |
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| | tail feathers | |
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| | birds | |
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| | the Classic of Tea, first monograph ever on tea and its culture, written by 陸羽｜陆羽 between 760-780 | |
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| | Kariba or Kariwa, Japanese name / Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟 | |
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| | Hongmen feast / (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest / refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦｜刘邦 escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽｜项羽 | |
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| | to molt / to change feathers | |
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| | badminton court | |
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| | (idiom) to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions | |
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| | Oath of the Peach Garden, sworn by Liu Bei 劉備｜刘备, Zhang Fei 張飛｜张飞 and Guan Yu 關羽｜关羽 at the start of the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 | |
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| | pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la | |
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| | Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦｜刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽｜项羽 of Chu | |
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| | Daoist priest | |
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| | plume | |
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| | camlet (silk fabric) | |
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| | (bird species of China) demoiselle crane (Grus virgo) | |
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| | fully fledged | |
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| | lit. one phoenix feather; fig. a glimpse that reveals the whole | |
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| | camlet (silk fabric) | |
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| | quill | |
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| | kale | |
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| | Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽｜关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛｜张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲｜赵云, Ma Chao 馬超｜马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠｜黄忠 | |
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| | (bird species of China) Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) | |
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| | International Badminton Federation | |
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| | caudipteryx (a feathered dinosaur) | |
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| | (idiom) to cherish one's reputation | |
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| | radiation plume | |
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| | Kashiwasaki Kariwa, site of Japanese nuclear power plant near Niigata 新潟 | |
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| | (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽｜项羽, who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat) | |
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| | feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus) | |
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| | quill pen | |
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| | alumen / alunite (TCM) | |
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| | bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy) | |
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| | pinnation (splitting of leaves into lobes) | |
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| | Indian mackerel | |
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| | feathered | |
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