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HSK
screw
HSK 7-9
bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles / fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans")
HSK 7-9
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silk / thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips / classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
HSK 7-9
steel wire / tightrope
Alice (name)
drizzle / fine rain
welding wire
wisps of blood / visible veins / (of eyes) bloodshot
silk / pure silk
mycelium / hypha
(textiles) (loanword) lace
fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
shredded meat / shredded pork
filament (in a lightbulb)
hair (on the head)
wire drawing / candied floss (cooking) / spun sugar or toffee (coating)
to spin silk
gossamer / hairspring
iron wire / CL: / subway enthusiast (abbr. for 地鐵粉絲|地铁粉丝) / railway enthusiast (abbr. for 鐵路粉絲|铁路粉丝)
natural silk (secreted by silkworm)
(of spiders, caterpillars, silkworms etc) to extrude silk
to spin synthetic fiber / to spin silk / spinning / filature
copper wire
Beyoncé (1981-), American pop singer
stalk (filament) of stamen
raw silk
hair mousse (loanword)
kesi or k’o-ssu, Chinese silk tapestry woven in a pictorial design
loser (Internet slang)
a bit chilly
tiny bit / a jot / whisker
variant of 緙絲|缂丝
shredded coconut
to grate (cheese, carrots etc); to shred
mousse (loanword)
axoneme (long thread of nerve cell)
filature silk
a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province
hulusi, aka cucurbit flute (a kind of free reed wind instrument)
hot and sour shredded potato
pork strips stir-fried with yuxiang 魚香|鱼香
to walk a tightrope (literally or figuratively)
sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
silk raw material (prepared by boiling in soap)
crosshairs
shredded ginger
dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish)
rayon
fuse wire / (electrical) fuse
barbed wire
(of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words (Tw)
julienned potato
microfilament
Iris (name)
silk from worms fed on leaves
(silver) of low purity / low grade
fuse wire
Beatrix (name)
die-hard fan
slightly salty


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