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gray / ash gray / grizzly / pessimistic / gloomy / dispirited / ambiguous
HSK 5
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ash / dust / lime / gray / discouraged; dejected
HSK 7-9
dust
HSK 7-9
to lose heart / to be discouraged
HSK 7-9
Cinderella / a sudden rags-to-riches celebrity
ashes
cannon fodder
ash-colored
dark gray
bone ash / cremation ashes; cremains
apatite / phosphatic limestone
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke
head and face filthy with grime (idiom) / covered in dirt / dejected and depressed
cigarette ash
limestone
as easy as blowing off dust / effortless / with ease
limestone
box for bone ashes / funerary casket
volcanic ash
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
to blow away dust
mortar (for masonry)
ash from burnt paper
poliomyelitis
ashtray
plant ash
downhearted / downcast / in despair
lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt / fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff
every hope turns to dust (idiom); completely disheartened
discouraged / downhearted
discouraged / downhearted
slaked lime / hydrated lime
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law / also written 扒灰
dull gray / gloomy / dejected / crestfallen / with one's tail between one's legs
dull gray / drab / murky
calcium oxide CaO / quicklime
(bird species of China) Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
lime (calcium oxide)
(bird species of China) common crane (Grus grus)
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law
dusky / overcast (of weather)
gloomy and dull (idiom) / boring and gray / unpleasantly murky
soot
cement
to plaster / to render (a wall) / (fig.) to bring shame on / also pr. [mo4 hui1]
ashen-faced (idiom)
dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol
lit. to rub one's nose with dust / to suffer a snub / to meet with a rebuff
(idiom) a slight effort
big bad wolf
ash gray
calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 / slaked lime
(neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust
gray water
lime plaster (construction)
(bird species of China) Blyth's tragopan (Tragopan blythii)
grayscale
grizzly bear
plaster / mortar
(bird species of China) grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
granny gray (hair color)
(bird species of China) grey-chinned minivet (Pericrocotus solaris)
(bird species of China) grey-streaked flycatcher (Muscicapa griseisticta)
Pinot gris (grape type) / Pinot grigio
(bird species of China) greylag goose (Anser anser)
columbarium
(bird species of China) ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus)
(bird species of China) azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyanus)
(bird species of China) David's fulvetta (Alcippe davidi)
(bird species of China) white-shouldered starling (Sturnia sinensis)
(bird species of China) merlin (Falco columbarius)
(bird species of China) grey-tailed tattler (Tringa brevipes)
(bird species of China) grey bush chat (Saxicola ferreus)
(bird species of China) Himalayan owl (Strix nivicolum)
(bird species of China) ashy wood pigeon (Columba pulchricollis)
(bird species of China) ashy woodswallow (Artamus fuscus)
(bird species of China) grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus)
(bird species of China) slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
(bird species of China) azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus)
(bird species of China) grey-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
(bird species of China) grey-necked bunting (Emberiza buchanani)
wollastonite CaSiO3
(bird species of China) red-headed bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythrocephala)
(bird species of China) brown bullfinch (Pyrrhula nipalensis)
(bird species of China) southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
(bird species of China) great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus)
(bird species of China) Swinhoe's minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis)
radioactive fallout
(bird species of China) black-winged cuckooshrike (Lalage melaschistos)
gunmetal gray
putty knife
(bird species of China) rock bunting (Emberiza cia)
andosol (soil taxonomy)
dull gray / gray and loathsome
(bird species of China) northern shrike (Lanius borealis)
(bird species of China) Przevalski's parrotbill; rusty-throated parrotbill (Suthora przewalskii)
(bird species of China) grey-crowned warbler (Phylloscopus tephrocephalus)
(bird species of China) ashy-throated warbler (Phylloscopus maculipennis)

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