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HSK
winter vacation
HSK 4
cold (climate) / frigid / very cold
HSK 4
typhoid
my humble home
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
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  *寒* | 寒* | *寒
cold / poor / to tremble
high and cold (mountain area)
(bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
cold winter
shiver
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
(idiom) to show concern about sb's well-being
cold air / a chill one feels in the body (when exposed to cold air)
Hanting district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
bitter cold / severe winter
to defend against the cold; to keep warm
to enquire solicitously about sb's well-being (idiom) / to pamper
to fear / to be terrified
a nip in the air / chilliness
wind chill / cold weather / common cold (medicine)
cold weather, frozen ground (idiom); bitterly cold
to exchange conventional greetings; to exchange pleasantries
to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
Cambrian geological period (541-485.4 million years ago)
to warm oneself / to expel the cold (TCM)
lit. not cold, yet shivering (idiom) / fig. to tremble with fear / to be terrified
ugly / shameful / to ridicule
bone chilling wind (idiom)
(idiom) (of early spring weather) alternating between warm and cold
cold snap during the spring
nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year
beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty
polar climate
poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished
alone and poor / humble / (Cantonese) miserly
lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom); fig. intimately interdependent
typhus
bitterly disappointed / frightened
Hanlu or Cold Dew, 17th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd October
affected by cold / to catch cold
it's lonely at the top (idiom)
(old) impoverished scholar
wretched / poverty-stricken / unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
disillusioned / bitterly disappointed / terrified
cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节) / the Qingming festival
poor / underprivileged / (of weather) crisp and clear
to escape the cold by going on a winter holiday
coldproof / resistant to cold
cold wave / CL:
Great Cold, 24th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th January-3rd February
fine hair on the human body
Lesser Cold, 23rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-19th January
of humble origin
chilly weather / (loanword from Japanese) agar-agar
cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom); fig. cold and solitary existence
the north frigid zone
winter clothing
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / short attention span
a life of strenuous studies (idiom)
to be scared out of one's wits
bitter cold
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
(polite) my wife (old)
lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling
variant of 寒磣|寒碜
Hanting district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
a shiver
to dispel cold (TCM)
stomach cold (TCM)
overcoat / down jacket / winter wear
desolate and cold / frozen wastes
cold and desolate
(of a bladed weapon etc) to gleam coldly
Han Han (1982-), PRC blogger, singer and professional rally driver
the chilling effect of a climate of fear in which people are afraid to speak their mind
three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day
murine typhus fever
the Cambrian explosion
murine typhus fever
lower Cambrian (geological period approx 530 million years ago)
lower Cambrian series (geological strata from approx 530 million years ago)
salmonella typhimurium
typhoid
pre-Cambrian, geological period before c. 540m years ago
paratyphoid fever
hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty
to be of humble origin (idiom)
the Cambrian explosion
the Cambrian explosion
a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself) / Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia
to relieve cold
(bird species of China) Daurian jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus)
lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idiom)
murine typhus


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