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target; object / partner; boyfriend; girlfriend / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
image / form / figure / CL: 個|个 / visualization / vivid
HSK 3
phenomenon / CL: 個|个, 種|种 / appearance
HSK 3
impression (sth that stays in one's mind) / a memory
HSK 3
to imagine; to envision / imagination
HSK 4
meteorological condition; weather / meteorology / atmosphere; ambience; scene
HSK 5
elephant / CL: 頭|头
HSK 5
emblem / symbol / token / badge / to symbolize / to signify / to stand for
HSK 5
scene / sight (to behold)
HSK 5
sign; indication; mark; indicator
HSK 7-9
abstract / abstraction / CL: 種|种
HSK 7-9
Xiangshan district of Guilin city 桂林市, Guangxi / Xiangshan county in Ningbo 寧波|宁波, Zhejiang
Vientiane, capital of Laos
every manifestation of nature
illusion
weather station
ivory / elephant tusk
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast (Tw)
weevil / snout beetle
impressionism
pictogram / hieroglyph
woolly mammoth
outward appearance / superficial / (philosophy, psychology) representation / idea / (math.) representation
stereotype
aspect of the celestial bodies (used for navigation and astrology)
imagination
to seek a marriage partner / looking for a mate
image / imagery
natural phenomenon
meteorological or astronomical phenomenon (e.g. rainbow or eclipse)
dangers spring up all around (idiom); surrounded by perils
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elephant / CL: 隻|只 / shape / form / appearance / to imitate
condition or type of pulse (in Chinese medicine)
all-embracing / all-inclusive
ivory tower
chess / CL:
meteorology
unreasonable / shocking; outrageous
sign / symptom
Chinese chess / CL:
(in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom)
to form an image / to call to mind
weather satellite
a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
onomatopoeia
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
false appearance / facade
symbolism
pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
Xiangzhou county in Laibin 來賓|来宾, Guangxi
impressionism
meteorological office / weather forecasting office
tangible image / concrete / representational (art)
drought
walrus
symbolic / emblem / token
to be just like
visual arts
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
Xiangshan county in Ningbo 寧波|宁波, Zhejiang
pictogram / one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph
multitude of 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
atavism (biology)
symptom (of a disease)
quadrant (in coordinate geometry)
Xiangshan district of Guilin city 桂林市, Guangxi
weather station
planetarium projector
variant of 圖像|图像
(variant of 真相) the truth about sth; the actual facts
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
variant of 影像
mammoth
Xiangzhou county in Laibin 來賓|来宾, Guangxi
to seem; to be like (variant of 好像)
hemogram / picture of blood used in medical research
(religion) a vision / strange phenomenon
phenomenology
Elephant Trunk Hill in Guilin, Guangxi
elephant seal
weevil / snout beetle
hidden inner properties and their external manifestations (TCM)
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
to have a recollection (of sb or sth) / to remember
chaos / madness
phenomenal
(slang) elephant
abstract thought / logical thinking
first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive)
China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
celluloid
(brand or organization) ambassador / face (of a brand or company)
abstract algebra
wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics
partner for dating / a date (boyfriend or girlfriend)
elephant trunk clam / geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (native to the west coast of North America)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

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