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  *节* | 节* | *节
joint; node / (bound form) section; segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize; to save / (bound form) moral integrity; chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour)
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(TV or radio) program; show / item; act; segment; number (on the program of a concert, variety show or cultural event) / a planned activity (in one's schedule) / CL: 個|个, 場|场, 項|项, 臺|台, , 檔|档
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Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
HSK 2
holiday / festival / CL: 個|个
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syllable
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to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
saving / to save / to use sparingly / to cut down on
HSK 4
details; particulars
HSK 4
time / season / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to adjust / to regulate / to harmonize / to reconcile (accountancy etc)
HSK 5
(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
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circumstances / plot; storyline
HSK 5
the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
HSK 5
season; time
HSK 6
to conserve energy; to minimize energy consumption
HSK 6
rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat
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Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
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Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
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public holiday
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Christmas time / Christmas season / Christmas
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joint (physiology) / key point / critical phase
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solar term
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festive day / holiday
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to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
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to come apart
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to save water
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to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
HSK 7-9
frugal; economical
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Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
HSK 7-9
carnival
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  *节* | 节* | *节
node
Thanksgiving Day
All Saints (Christian festival)
to practice strict economy (idiom)
excerpt / selection (from a book) / to select / to choose an extract
chapter / section
to save electricity / power saving
(computing) byte / CL: 個|个
beat (music) / meter
inessentials / minor detail
to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke
to abridge / to cut a text down to size for publication
etiquette
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
bamboo joint
moral integrity / unflinching righteousness
(diplomatic) envoy
to save food / to go on a diet
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
the New Year festival
step by step / little by little
Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song
a minor matter / trivia / bar (music)
rhythm / pace
Fengjie, a county in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
jointing (agriculture)
to control / to restrict / to moderate / to temper / moderation / sobriety / to administer
to not bother about trifles (idiom)
joint (of the skeleton)
to economize on gasoline / fuel-efficient
(dialect) critical juncture / crucial moment / Taiwan pr. [jie2 gu5 yan3]
nunchaku
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending / to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure
turpentine
to practice birth control
to save / savings
(idiom) new problems arise unexpectedly
festival
branches and knots / fig. side issue / minor peripheral problem
to extract / to excerpt / excerpt
minor details / trifles
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
convoluted and overelaborate (document) / unnecessarily elaborate writing / mumbo-jumbo
betrayal / defection / turncoat / to change sides politically
major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character
of noble character and unquestionable integrity (idiom)
abridged version
integrity / moral principle
chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy
reputation and integrity
to save on expenditure
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
to be disloyal (to one's country, spouse etc) / to lose one's chastity
abbreviation
character; moral integrity
to pay respects during a festival
lit. muscles and joints / by ext. the relations between parts in a speech, composition etc
faithful (to the memory of betrothed) / constant (of widow who remains unmarried)
to economize on clothes and food / to scrimp and save (idiom)
to bow and scrape / to act servilely
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
gnarl / knot
(of a woman) indomitably chaste
festival season
PRC National Day (October 1st)
International Women's Day (March 8)
arthritis

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