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| | sun / sunlight; sunshine / temple (on the side of the human head) (abbr. for 太陽穴|太阳穴) | HSK 2 |
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| | multicolored / every color under the sun | HSK 4 |
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| | (of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to | HSK 4 |
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| | to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement | HSK 4 |
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| | to be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc) / to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to go down a hill / (of the sun or moon) to set | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods | |
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| | (Internet slang) alternative for 你媽|你妈 / (transcription from Tibetan) the sun | |
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| | The Sun (the name of various newspapers, notably in the UK and in Hong Kong) | |
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| | to climb a hill / to go to the mountains / (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons) / to pass away / (of the sun or moon) to rise | |
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| | father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen) | |
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| | surname Sun | |
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| | grandson / descendant | |
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| | blazing sun | |
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| | to decrease; to lose / to damage; to harm / (coll.) to ridicule; to deride / (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to appear (of sun) | |
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| | Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) / Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung) / Sun Yat-sen University (Moscow), founded in 1925 as training ground for Chinese communists | |
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| | Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党 / same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙 | |
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| | bright sun / beautiful day | |
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| | the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood | |
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| | Stefanie Sun (1978-), Singaporean singer-songwriter | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | “Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书, written by Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子 | |
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| | Dr Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum in Nanjing | |
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| | Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Heaven, story about the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空 from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts | |
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| | Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山, influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925 | |
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| | Zhongshan Park, the name of numerous parks in China, honoring Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山 | |
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| | final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise) | |
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| | Wu state (in south China, in different historical periods) / Wu state 220-280, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 the southernmost of the three Kingdoms | |
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| | total eclipse of the sun | |
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| | sun, moon and the five visible planets | |
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| | positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴 | |
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| | Great Sage the Equal of Heaven, self-proclaimed title of the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空 in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | to air / to sun | |
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| | the sun sets in the west (idiom) | |
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| | the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down) / the whole country / the universe / everything under the sun | |
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| | nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism | |
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| | moderate wind, beautiful sun (idiom); fine sunny weather, esp. in springtime | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Sun Wukong 孫悟空|孙悟空, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 | |
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| | sunset / the setting sun | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 / Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠|七龙珠 | |
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| | first rays of morning sun / first glimmer of dawn | |
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| | Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology collected around 1763 by Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛 | |
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| | Sun God / Apollo | |
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| | dizzy / halo / ring around moon or sun | |
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| | to talk endlessly; to talk about everything under the sun | |
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| | the sun, the moon, and the stars | |
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| | facing the sun / exposed to the sun | |
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| | Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s) | |
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| | scorching sun | |
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| | heliophile / tending towards the sun / heliotropism | |
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| | heliocentric theory / the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe | |
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| | eclipsis (of the moon or sun) | |
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| | the rising sun | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bamboo shoot | |
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| | (out of) the corner of one's eyes / peripheral vision / residual light / light of the setting sun | |
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| | the sun shines brightly (idiom) | |
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| | (of the sun) to scorch / to expose to a scorching sun | |
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| | Sun Bin (-316 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家 during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC) | |
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| | three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology) / Korean: samjog'o | |
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| | Sun Microsystems | |
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| | Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912 | |
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| | Earth orbit (orbit of a satellite around the Earth) / Earth's orbit (orbit of the Earth around the Sun) | |
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| | lit. exposed to sun and rain (idiom) / fig. exposed to the elements | |
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| | (literary) the sun over the sea | |
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| | the sun sets over western hills (idiom); the day approaches its end / fig. time of decline / the end of an era / Sic transit gloria mundi | |
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| | pole for punting boats / pole for drying clothes in the sun | |
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| | inclining to the west (e.g. of the sun after noon, indicating lateness of the day) | |
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| | Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912 | |
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| | Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords | |
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| | final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise) | |
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| | Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首 / also known by assumed name 蘅塘退士 | |
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| | Eastern Wu (222-280) / the southern state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, founded by Sun Quan 孫權|孙权 | |
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| | unprocessed sun-dried tea leaves used to make black or green tea | |
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| | wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun | |
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| | setting sun | |
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| | the five yuan (administrative branches of government) of the Republic of China under Sun Yat-sen's constitution: 行政院 Executive Yuan, 立法院 Legislative Yuan, 司法院 Judicial Yuan, 考試院|考试院 Examination Yuan, 監察院|监察院 Control Yuan | |
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| | Sun Chuanfang (1885-1935) one of the northern warlord, murdered in Tianjin in 1935 | |
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| | lit. Sichuan dogs bark at the sun (idiom); fig. a simpleton will marvel at even the most common things / alludes to the Sichuan foggy weather where it's uncommon to see a sunny day | |
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| | lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly | |
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| | an annular eclipse of the sun | |
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| | sun-drenched | |
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| | to be exposed to the sun / in a position facing the sun | |
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| | the morning sun | |
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| | Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | Sun Yue (1973-), PRC female pop star / Sun Yue (1985-), PRC basketball star | |
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| | Sun Wu, famous general, strategist and Legalist philosopher, contemporary with Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC), author of "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子 | |
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| | democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state) | |
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| | (dialect) to dry (sth) in the sun; to dry (sth) in the air | |
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| | one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span | |
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| | Ding Ling (1904-1986), female novelist, author of novel The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河上, attacked during the 1950s as anti-Party | |
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| | sun-dried mudbrick; adobe brick | |
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| | the original name of 孫中山|孙中山, Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党 | |
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| | morning sun | |
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| | lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom) / fig. the passage of time | |
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| | salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc) | |
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| | (idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background | |
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