| | house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, 座, 棟|栋 | HSK 1 |
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| | upstairs / (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread | HSK 1 |
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| | downstairs | HSK 1 |
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| | school building; academic building | HSK 1 |
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| | to go upstairs | HSK 4 |
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| | building (a relatively large, multistory one) / CL: 幢, 座 | HSK 4 |
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| | to go downstairs | HSK 4 |
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| | a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, 幢, 座 | HSK 6 |
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| | corridor / passageway (in storied building) | HSK 6 |
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| | office building | HSK 6 |
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| | restaurant | HSK 7-9 |
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| | apartment building / residential tower | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Chihkan Tower (formerly Fort Provintia) in Tainan, Taiwan (also written 赤嵌樓|赤嵌楼) | |
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| | corner (between walls) | |
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| | to jump from a building (to kill oneself) / fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising) | |
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| | top of a building | |
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| | high building / multistory building / skyscraper / CL: 座 | |
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| | Shilou county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西 | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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| | original poster (in an online forum) / landlord of a building (traditional) | |
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| | to take it up a notch / to bring it up a level | |
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| | floor; story (of a building) | |
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| | silverware store / jewelry center | |
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| | garret / loft / attic | |
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| | arcade (architecture) | |
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| | teahouse (usu. of two stories) | |
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| | multistoried building / tower / pagoda | |
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| | to fall off or jump off a building | |
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| | floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc) | |
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| | Zhonglou district of Changzhou city 常州市, Jiangsu | |
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| | bell tower / campanile / clock tower / Bell Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc | |
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| | staircase / flight of stairs | |
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| | Loulan, aka Kroraina, ancient oasis town on the Silk Road near Lop Nor 羅布泊|罗布泊 | |
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| | (literary) brothel / pleasure quarters | |
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| | building / pavilion | |
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| | Gulou, the name of districts in Nanjing (in Jiangsu), Xuzhou (in Jiangsu), Fuzhou (in Fujian) and Kaifeng (in Henan) | |
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| | tall building | |
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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | a drum tower / Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc | |
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| | city gate tower | |
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| | decorated archway | |
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| | (idiom) (lit. and fig.) mirage | |
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| | the Pentagon | |
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| | multistory building | |
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| | pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans | |
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| | lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom) / fig. (of a dwelling) empty; deserted | |
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| | dangerous housing / building that is about to collapse | |
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| | Shilou county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西 | |
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| | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French realist novelist, author of Madame Bovary | |
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| | bejeweled jade palace (idiom); sumptuous dwelling | |
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| | watchtower / lookout tower | |
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| | to construct a building / (Internet slang) to reply to a thread | |
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| | tower (of building) | |
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| | Yueyang Tower, famous beauty spot in Yueyang, north Hunan, overlooking Dongting Lake 洞庭湖 / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓|黄鹤楼 in Wuhan, Hubei and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | airport terminal | |
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| | watch tower / drum tower marking night watches | |
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| | small ventilation tower on roof of building | |
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| | watchtower; guard tower / police booth | |
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| | towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow | |
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| | Yueyang Tower district of Yueyang city 岳陽|岳阳, Hunan | |
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| | Zhonglou district of Changzhou city 常州市, Jiangsu | |
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| | ship with several decks / turreted junk | |
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| | house overhanging a river, supported at the rear by stilts / house built in a hilly area, supported by stilts | |
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| | watch tower / movable battlefield turret | |
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| | tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China) | |
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| | pavilion / variant of 婁子|娄子 | |
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| | real estate market | |
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| | building under construction / commercial property / real estate (for sale or rent) | |
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| | main building | |
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| | office building | |
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| | department store | |
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| | apartment building | |
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| | to jump to one's death | |
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| | building | |
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| | (slang) prostitute who provides services in a private apartment | |
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| | apartment building offered for sale before construction is completed / off-plan property | |
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| | uncompleted building; building whose construction has run into difficulties and stopped | |
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| | On Yueyang Tower (1046), essay by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 | |
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| | apartment building / CL: 座 | |
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| | extremely low price / knockdown price | |
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| | basement level 1; floor B1 | |
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| | lit. a pavilion near the water (idiom); fig. using one's proximity to the powerful to obtain favor | |
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| | traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multistory circular structure built around a central shrine | |
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| | head of a flight of stairs | |
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| | ground floor; first floor | |
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| | Chihkan Tower (formerly Fort Provintia) in Tainan, Taiwan (also written 赤崁樓|赤崁楼) | |
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| | drop tower; free fall tower (amusement ride) | |
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| | World Trade Center (the twin towers destroyed by the 9-11 terrorists) | |
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| | pavilions and kiosks (in Chinese gardens) | |
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