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target; object / partner; boyfriend; girlfriend / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
phenomenon / CL: 個|个, 種|种 / appearance
HSK 3
impression (sth that stays in one's mind) / a memory
HSK 3
image / form / figure / CL: 個|个 / visualization / vivid
HSK 3
to imagine; to envision / imagination
HSK 4
emblem / symbol / token / badge / to symbolize / to signify / to stand for
HSK 5
elephant / CL: 頭|头
HSK 5
meteorological condition; weather / meteorology / atmosphere; ambience; scene
HSK 5
scene / sight (to behold)
HSK 5
abstract / abstraction / CL: 種|种
HSK 7-9
sign; indication; mark; indicator
HSK 7-9
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  *象* | 象* | *象
elephant / CL: 隻|只 / shape / form / appearance / to imitate
outward appearance / superficial / (philosophy, psychology) representation / idea / (math.) representation
Chinese chess / CL:
image / imagery
meteorological or astronomical phenomenon (e.g. rainbow or eclipse)
quadrant (in coordinate geometry)
four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武
illusion
all-embracing / all-inclusive
Vientiane, capital of Laos
every manifestation of nature
aspect of the celestial bodies (used for navigation and astrology)
sign / symptom
impressionism
(religion) a vision / strange phenomenon
ivory / elephant tusk
pictogram / one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
Xiangshan district of Guilin city 桂林市, Guangxi / Xiangshan county in Ningbo 寧波|宁波, Zhejiang
(in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom)
Xiangzhou county in Laibin 來賓|来宾, Guangxi
walrus
false appearance / facade
condition or type of pulse (in Chinese medicine)
dangers spring up all around (idiom); surrounded by perils
variant of 圖像|图像
Elephant Trunk Hill in Guilin, Guangxi
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
stinkbug
onomatopoeia
observatory / observation platform
hemogram / picture of blood used in medical research
weevil / snout beetle
mammoth
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
to seem; to be like (variant of 好像)
symptom (of a disease)
variant of 錄像|录像
drought
variant of 影像
variant of 像話|像话
imagination
tangible image / concrete / representational (art)
stereotype
pictogram / hieroglyph
to be just like
meteorology
abstract algebra
China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
weevil; snout beetle
(variant of 真相) the truth about sth; the actual facts
chaos / madness
hidden inner properties and their external manifestations (TCM)
elephant seal
weather station
weather satellite
Document Object Model (DOM)
chess / CL:
phenomenal
Xiangshan county in Ningbo 寧波|宁波, Zhejiang
person who represents an organization and enhances its image; an ambassador
symbolic / emblem / token
impressionism
planetarium projector
(brand or organization) ambassador / face (of a brand or company)
visual arts
partner for dating / a date (boyfriend or girlfriend)
pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
object oriented language
to touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)
a meteorologist
a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
(slang) elephant
strange phenomenon
variant of 像樣|像样
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast (Tw)
atavism (biology)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
star chart / also written 星相圖|星相图
(computing) disk image (aka image file); ISO image
wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics
phenomenology
natural phenomenon
pea weevil
symbolism
Chinese chess tournament
ivory tower
unreasonable / shocking; outrageous

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