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| | Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 | |
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| | gecko; house lizard | |
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| | White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia | |
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| | Yahoo, Internet portal | |
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| | fierce tiger | |
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| | outstanding people / water and fire (in Daoist writing) | |
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| | lit. to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom) / fig. to be full of needless fears / reds under the beds | |
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| | to play the wolf in sheep's clothing; to disguise oneself as sth harmless in order to lull one's target into letting their guard down | |
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| | lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom) / fig. vigorous and lively | |
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| | stumbling block | |
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| | lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless | |
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| | tigress / (fig.) fierce woman / vixen | |
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| | paper tiger | |
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| | careless / casual / vague / not so bad / so-so / tolerable / fair | |
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| | being close to the sovereign can be as perilous as lying with a tiger (idiom) | |
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| | saber-toothed tiger | |
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| | crouching tiger / fig. major figure in hiding / concealed talent | |
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| | lit. hidden dragon, crouching tiger (idiom) / fig. talented individuals in hiding / concealed talent | |
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| | jumping spider (family Salticidae) | |
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| | lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject / uninspired imitation | |
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| | lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom) / fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us / (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive | |
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| | to vanquish dragons and tigers (idiom) | |
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| | jaguar | |
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| | electricity hog; electricity guzzler | |
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| | if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway | |
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| | lit. like wolves and tigers / ruthless | |
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| | Boston ivy or Japanese creeper (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) | |
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| | fierce animals | |
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| | man with a big smile and evil intentions | |
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| | vigorous / formidable / strong | |
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| | a deliberate show of strength as a warning | |
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| | three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact | |
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| | lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) / fig. the fearlessness of youth | |
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| | hot spell during autumn / Indian summer | |
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| | to subdue a tiger / fig. to prevail over sinister forces | |
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| | Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) | |
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| | Land Rover | |
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| | Shi Hu (295-349), emperor of Later Zhao 後趙|后赵 | |
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| | leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) / sculpted stone tiger installed at the tomb of revered figures in ancient times to ward off evil spirits | |
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| | Year 3, year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010) | |
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| | (bird species of China) Asian green bee-eater (Merops orientalis) | |
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| | (bird species of China) blue-throated bee-eater (Merops viridis) | |
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| | (bird species of China) rainbow bee-eater (Merops ornatus) | |
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| | (bird species of China) blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) | |
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| | (bird species of China) chestnut-headed bee-eater (Merops leschenaulti) | |
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| | lit. coiled dragon, crouching tiger (idiom) / fig. talented individuals in hiding / concealed talent | |
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| | South China Tiger | |
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| | (coll.) jumping spider (which pounces on houseflies, hence the Chinese name) | |
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| | (bird species of China) blue-bearded bee-eater (Nyctyornis athertoni) | |
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| | muddle-headed | |
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| | (bird species of China) European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) | |
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