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  *树* | 树* | *树
tree / CL: / to cultivate / to set up
HSK 1
pine / pine tree / CL:
HSK 4
peach tree / CL:
HSK 5
fruit tree / CL:
HSK 6
willow
HSK 7-9
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
HSK 7-9
cypress tree / Taiwan pr. [bo2 shu4]
HSK 7-9
to make a contribution / to establish / to found / contribution
HSK 7-9
poplar tree / various trees of genus Populus
HSK 7-9
to plant trees
Yushu, county-level city in Changchun 長春|长春, Jilin
elm
banyan
Zhangshu, county-level city in Yichun 宜春, Jiangxi
camphor / Cinnamonum camphara
Lishu county in Siping 四平, Jilin / Lishu district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
pear tree
trees / greenery
mulberry tree, with leaves used to feed silkworms
maple
legendary tree that sheds coins when shaken / (fig.) source of easy money
jujube tree / date tree / Zizyphus vulgaris / CL:
birch
MURAKAMI Haruki (1949-), Japanese novelist and translator
eucalyptus
red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) / CL:
apricot tree
roadside tree; street tree
sago palm (Cycas revoluta)
lac tree (Rhus vernicifera)
dragon tree / Dracaena (botany)
Chinese horse chestnut (Aesculus chinensis)
palm tree
fir
lit. an ant trying to shake a tree (idiom) / fig. to overrate oneself; to overestimate one's capabilities
oak tree
to plant trees
to chop wood / to chop down trees
Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250 AD), Buddhist philosopher
short tree / bush / shrub
palm tree
decision tree
binary tree
paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)
Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis)
olive tree
maple
tea tree / Camellia sinensis
boabab tree / monkey-bread tree / Adansonia digitata (botany)
peepul (Ficus religiosa); bodhi tree; sacred fig
long peduncled alder (Alnus cremastogyne) / Alnus trebeculata
"ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝 and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking
grapevine
breadfruit tree / Artocarpus altilis
rubber tree
white poplar (Populus bonatii)
conifer
Chinese sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana)
Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis)
evergreen tree
plum tree
Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM
a family tree
lit. an ant trying to shake a big tree (idiom) / fig. to overrate one's own strength / also written 蚍蜉撼樹|蚍蜉撼树
holly
lit. orchids and jade trees (idiom); fig. a child with splendid future prospects
Antiaris toxicaria (botany)
pistachio tree
laurel tree (Laurus nobilis) / bay tree
Catalpa bungei or Manchurian Catalpa, a tea plant
black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
Christmas tree
coca plant (source of cocaine)
shrub / small tree / sapling / CL:
silkworm thorn tree
orange tree
lit. reeds leaning on a jade tree (idiom) / fig. the lowly associating with the noble; the weak seeking help from the strong
Madagascar palm (Pachypodium lamerei)
Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis)
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
croton bush (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科, with seed having strong purgative properties
search tree (computing)
Mongolian oak (Quercus dentata) / Daimyo oak
oak
KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991
YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
useless person (originally from Zhuangzi's "A Happy Excursion" 逍遙遊|逍遥游)
spanning tree (in graph theory)
heath
pomegranate tree
red alder (Alnus rubra)
Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as writing media
Cinchona ledgeriana, tree whose bark contains quinine
blue sandalwood (Pteroceltis tatarinowii Maxim), the bark of which is used to manufacture 宣紙|宣纸
citron (Citrus medica) / grapefruit
Kaoshu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan


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