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to display; to exhibit
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metabolism (biology) / the new replaces the old (idiom)
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an assertion / to declare / to state
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old-fashioned
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surname Chen / Chen (c. 1045 - 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state / Chen (557-589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝
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(bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display / (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell / old; stale
(of wine) aged / (of debts etc) old; longstanding
to give a full account
to lay out the corpse
display room
dried tangerine peel (used in cuisine and traditional Chinese medicine)
to display / to set out / furnishings
lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
Old Barag banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
old Shaoxing wine
History of Chen of the Southern Dynasties, ninth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Yao Silian 姚思廉 in 636 during Tang dynasty, 36 scrolls
(idiom) to be nothing to write home about
to age / to mature (wine, timber etc)
to deploy troops / to mass troops
mature vinegar
to state one's views / speech / statement / plea
to lie in disarray / to cut across / to traverse
to display
to state; to assert
the military revolt of 960 that led Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤|赵匡胤 to found the Song dynasty
to say straight out / to point out bluntly / to give a straightforward account / to disclose
to lay out (an argument) item by item / memorandum to a superior
past events / relics from a former age / ruins
to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
to state / to assert
to reveal / to confess
old wine
declarative sentence
to give an orderly account / a thorough narrative
old rice / rice kept for many years
(Claire) Chennault, commander of Flying Tigers during World War II
Chen Tuan (871-989), a legendary Daoist sage
outmoded conventions; old-fashioned ways
shop-worn goods / remnants
to arrange / to spread out / to narrate in detail / to describe at great length / to elaborate
to follow a set routine
Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising (209 BC), near the end of the Qin dynasty
food grains (rice, wheat, barley, beans, soybeans, sesame)
cliché / commonplace / truism / stereotype
outmoded conventions / old-fashioned ways
set pattern / old habit
trite / clichéd / empty and trite / banality / platitude
Chen Yun (1905-1995), communist leader and economist
Eason Chan (1974-), Hong Kong pop singer and actor
Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972
Chen Shou (233-297), Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋 historian, author of History of the Three Kingdoms 三國志|三国志
Chen Sheng (died 208 BC), Qin dynasty rebel, leader of the Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising 陳勝吳廣起義|陈胜吴广起义
Vanessa-Mae (1978-), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier
Chen Kaige (1952-), Chinese movie director
Chen Zi'ang (c. 661-702), Tang dynasty poet
Chen Chen (1613-1670), novelist and poet at the Ming-Qing transition, author of Water Margin sequel 水滸後傳|水浒后传
Joan Chen (1961-), Chinese born American actress
Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004), Chinese-American mathematician
Benny Chan (Hong Kong film director)
Chen Xiangmei (1925-2018), a.k.a. Anna Chennault, born in Beijing, US Republican Party politician, wife of Claire Lee Chennault 陳納德|陈纳德
Peter Chen Ho (1931-1970), Chinese actor
Chen Chien-jen (1951-), Taiwanese politician, vice president of the Republic of China 2016-2020
Anson Chan (1940-), chief secretary for administration, Hong Kong (1997-2001)
representation letter (law) / a brief / written statement / declaration
Chen Yunlin (1941-), chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会 (2008-2013)
with complex feelings (idiom)
to exhibit; to display / exhibition; display
lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
Edison Chen (1980-), Hong Kong singer and actor
Chen Jiao, first wife of emperor 漢武帝|汉武帝, died c. 110 BC
Chen Shui-Bian (1950-), Taiwanese DPP 民進黨|民进党 politician, president of the Republic of China 2000-2008
Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong
Lu Chen (1976-), PRC figure skater, 1995 world champion
Chen of the Southern dynasties (557-589)
to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate / to go beyond old ideas / advancing all the time
to state one's humble opinion (idiom)
tarragon
Chen Renxi (1581-1636), late Ming scholar and prolific author
Chen Zhonglin, aka Xu Zhonglin 許仲琳|许仲琳 (c. 1567-c. 1620), Ming novelist, to whom the fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods 封神演義|封神演义 is attributed, together with Lu Xixing 陸西星|陆西星
Chen Boda (1904-1989), communist party theorist, interpreter of Maoism
ancient name of Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市, Shaanxi / Chencang district of Baoji City
Chencang District of Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市, Shaanxi
Chen Yuanguang (657-711), Tang dynasty general with posthumous title 開漳聖王|开漳圣王, i.e. Sacred King, founder of Zhangzhou 漳州, Fujian
Chen Chi-mai (1964-), Taiwanese DPP politician, vice premier of the Republic of China (2019-)
Chen Zaidao (1909-1993), general in the People's Liberation Army
stall
Chen Kexiong (1950-), novelist
Chen Tianhua (1875-1905), anti-Qing revolutionary from Hunan, drowned himself in Japan in 1905
to present a memorial (to the Emperor)
Chen Xitong (1930-2013), mayor of Beijing at the time of 4th June 1989 Tiananmen incident
Tran Duc Luong (1937-), former president of Vietnam
Chen Gongyin (1631-1700), early Qing dynasty poet
Tony Tan (1940-), president of Singapore 2011-2017
Chen Jingrun (1933-1996) Chinese number theorist
Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921
old rules and customs
lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip
old debt


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