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youth / youthful years / young person / the young
HSK 2
adolescent / youth / teenager
HSK 2
youth / youthfulness
HSK 4
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  *青* | 青* | *青
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)
HSK 5
frog (CL:隻|只) / (old) (slang) ugly guy
HSK 7-9
puberty / adolescence
HSK 7-9
remain fresh / last forever / eternal
HSK 7-9
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  *青* | 青* | *青
abbr. for 青海, Qinghai Province
navy blue
green soybean / green peas
lapis lazuli (mineral of the square albite family)
holly
to tattoo / a tattoo
rising straight up in a clear sky (idiom); rapid promotion to a high post / meteoric career
Kwai Tsing district of New Territories, Hong Kong
black clothes / servant (old) / young woman role in Chinese opera, also called 正旦
Qinghai Province, capital Xining 西寧市|西宁市 (abbr. to )
Qinggang county in Suihua 綏化|绥化, Heilongjiang
anthocyanidin (biochemistry)
Qingdao, sub-provincial city in Shandong Province 山東省|山东省
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair
lit. green plums and hobby-horse (idiom) / fig. innocent children's games / childhood sweethearts / a couple who grew up as childhood friends
youthful
Qingshan district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei / Qingshan district of Baotou city 包頭市|包头市, Inner Mongolia
green hills / (the good) life
Gaoqing county in Zibo 淄博, Shandong
bronze (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and tin 錫|锡)
(literary) (lit.) to fix one's gaze on; (fig.) to show interest in; (favorable) attention; favor
pine tree
the Blue House (or Cheong Wa Dae), formerly the residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul (1948-2022), now a public park
young person who adopts an outwardly artistic or intellectual style (abbr. for 文藝青年|文艺青年)
youth corps / youth wing of a political party
Chinese olive (Canarium album) / green unripe fruit / (Tw) fresh fruits
blue and white porcelain
evergreen
ashen
Capsicum annuum / green pepper
underripe / (fig.) young and inexperienced
scallion / green onion / verdant / lush green
clear sky / blue sky / upright and honorable (official)
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
asphalt / bitumen / pitch
to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc) / to finalize / to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves)
(literary) brothel / pleasure quarters
clear sky / fig. high official position / noble
young person / youngster
middle-aged
acne
Qingyang, a county in Chizhou 池州, Anhui
fine black hair / dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient)
a bloody nose and a swollen face / badly battered
the Communist Youth League, abbr. for 共產主義青年團|共产主义青年团
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
to rapidly go up in the world / meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)
grass
moss / lichen
lit. the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom) / fig. (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection
lit. green hills and clear waters / pleasant country scene (idiom)
Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off
educated youth (sent to work in farms during the Cultural Revolution), abbr. for 知識青年|知识青年
the rights and wrongs of a matter (idiom)
bluish black / bruise; bruising (CL:塊|块)
lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom); the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop / temporary deficit in manpower or resources / unable to make ends meet
Qinghai-Tibetan plateau
painting
Qinghai Lake (Tibetan: mtsho-sngon)
greenish yellow / sallow (of complexion)
pachinko (loanword) (Tw)
Qingyang district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
(bird species of China) gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)
YMCA (international Christian youth movement, formed in 1844)
Nippon lily (Rohdea japonica)
young people in their late 20s or older who are still unmarried
lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom) / fig. the student surpasses the master
lush green / dark green / turquoise
silage / green fodder
Trimeresurus stejnegeri (poisonous snake)
(coll.) just and incorruptible official
blue sandalwood (Pteroceltis tatarinowii Maxim), the bark of which is used to manufacture 宣紙|宣纸
oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense), a species of freshwater shrimp
Mount Qingcheng
Liu Qing (1916-1978), writer
adolescence
Communist Youth League of China / China Youth League
Bao Qingtian, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty
Ai Qing (1910-1996), Chinese poet
young person / the young
Qingyang, a county in Chizhou 池州, Anhui
blue-and-green landscape (genre of landscape painting originating in the Tang dynasty, in which blues and greens predominate)
green sea, blue sky (idiom); sea and sky merge in one shade / loneliness of faithful widow
Qingshen County in Meishan 眉山市, Sichuan
fresh and green / verdant
angry youth – highly nationalistic young Chinese people (abbr. for 憤怒青年|愤怒青年) (neologism c. 1970s)
veins / blue veins
bronze implement / refers to ancient bronze artifacts, from c. 2,000 BC
indigo (dye) / Indigo naturalis extract (used in TCM)
bamboo bark / bamboo green (color)

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