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heritage / legacy / inheritance / bequest / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 4
heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
HSK 4
regret / to regret / to be sorry that
HSK 6
ruins / historic relics
HSK 7-9
to leave / to abandon
HSK 7-9
to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore
HSK 7-9
remnant
HSK 7-9
final wishes of the departed
HSK 7-9
to leave behind / to hand down
HSK 7-9
remains (of a dead person)
HSK 7-9
testament / will
HSK 7-9
(medicine) sequelae / residual effects / (fig.) repercussions / aftermath
HSK 7-9
trace / vestige / historical remains / remnant
to bequeath
words of the deceased / last words of the dying / wisdom of past sages
to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status
(dead) human remains
to leave behind (inadvertently) / to forget / to omit / to leave out
nocturnal emission / wet dream
to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)
portrait of the deceased
wet dream; nocturnal emission
survivors / remnants / relict (species etc)
posthumous work
orphan
posthumous writing / testament / suicide note / ancient literature
historical remains / things that have survived since ancient times / (of such things) to survive
surviving family of the deceased
be plainly visible
bed-wetting
(dead) human remains
addendum
the mission in life of a deceased person, left to others to carry on
posthumous edict (of former emperor)
(lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group
to lay bare / to come to light
eternal regret
to overlook / to miss / to omit
picture of the deceased
to have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy (idiom)
wishes of the deceased
surviving manuscript / bequeathed draft (of book)
posthumous child
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom) / fig. honesty prevails throughout society
all dead and no survivors
the looks of the deceased (esp. in the context of paying one's respects) / picture of the deceased
to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom)
posthumous (painting, calligraphy, prose etc)
work or plans left as a legacy / the views of the departed / posthumous orders or teachings
old fogy; adherent of previous dynasty
vacancy
detailed and nothing left out (idiom); meticulous and comprehensive / not missing an iota
posthumous work (of a writer)
genetics
unrecognized talent
orphan / posthumous son
the bereaved / family of the deceased
to shed skin / to leave one's mortal envelope / remains (of a priest)
(UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage
(UNESCO) World Cultural Heritage
(bird species of China) relict gull (Ichthyaetus relictus)
widow / the deceased's widow
unsolved case (law)
historic site
inheritance tax / estate tax
unclaimed articles
hereditary / inherited / genetic
completely; fully; without omission
heritage; historical legacy
World Heritage site
Banpo neolithic Yangshao culture archaeological site east of Xi'an 西安
genetic material
heritability
Hemudu neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo 長江|长江 in Zhejiang, going back to c. 5000 BC
(biology) to egest / egesta (feces, scat etc)
to show in full light / to be revealed in its entirety
genetic engineering
genetic disorder
optogenetics
exhaustive / thorough
to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
ruins of Cherchen, Qarqan or Chiemo, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
posthumous edict of a former emperor / Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 edict to posterity
molecular genetics
Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
to have eternal regrets (idiom)
to tolerate is to abet
living fossil
to concentrate on trivial points while neglecting the main problem (idiom)
to pocket a lost article / (fig.) to correct others' errors / to remedy omissions (in a text etc)
cultural heritage
to send (sb) on a mission / to dispatch
undiscovered talent (idiom)
to leave behind / sb's legacy
damaged beyond repair
epigenetics
anecdote (about historical person) / lost or apocryphal story

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