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| | half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) (of women) to get one's period | |
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| | women's volleyball / abbr. for 女子排球 | |
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| | women's league / women's association | |
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| | (literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names) | |
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| | women and children | |
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| | (bound form) (of women) gentle; kind; lovely; admirable / (used in given names) / Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
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| | International Women's Day 婦女節|妇女节, 8th March / foolish / stupid | |
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| | women's clothes | |
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| | small arched door / boudoir; lady's chamber / (fig.) women | |
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| | to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women | |
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| | towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50 | |
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| | women's soccer; women's football / women's soccer team | |
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| | small and weak; puny / the small and weak; children; women and children | |
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| | women's singles (in tennis, badminton etc) | |
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| | (usually of women) chastity / virginity / virtue / honor / loyalty / moral integrity | |
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| | women's restroom; women's toilet | |
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| | concubine / I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women) | |
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| | long gown / cheongsam / traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao | |
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| | women's rights | |
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| | women's basketball / women's basketball team | |
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| | men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages | |
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| | door to women's room / gate to palace | |
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| | women's doubles (in tennis, badminton etc) | |
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| | Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers | |
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| | court lady / palace maid / traditional painting of beautiful women | |
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| | wine and women / color of wine / drunken expression | |
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| | to chase women / to express oneself in a pompous flowery style | |
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| | source of calamity (esp. of women) | |
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| | curtain / women's apartment / tent | |
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| | cloth head covering worn by men in ancient times / headscarf (typically worn by women) / kerchief / turban | |
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| | pervert (esp. one who gropes women in public) | |
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| | Brandy Melville, fashion brand known for clothes targeted at very slim young women / (generic usage) fashions for petite young women | |
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| | (of water) to rise / rising tide / (of women) to get one's period | |
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| | beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom) | |
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| | greedy for sex / given to lust for women | |
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| | to regard men as superior to women (idiom) | |
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| | men, women, young and old / everybody | |
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| | women and children | |
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| | palace corridor / fig. women's quarters / women | |
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| | to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs | |
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| | a feast for the eyes (idiom) / (of women) gorgeous / graceful / (of scenery) beautiful | |
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| | cap worn by women / feminine | |
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| | to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky | |
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| | chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy | |
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| | curtained carriage used by women / to gather together / to assemble | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers. | |
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| | women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom) | |
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| | women's undergarments | |
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| | women's love / passion (felt by lady) | |
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| | dangling ornament worn by women | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | Red Detachment of Women, revolutionary opera that premiered in 1964 | |
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| | Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women's singles) | |
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| | cutie / sweetie / (Tw) camisole (women's garment) | |
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| | old-fashioned women's obeisance / Taiwan pr. [lian4 ren4] | |
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| | (coll.) (usu. of women in former times) to marry for a second time / second marriage / person who remarries | |
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| | Yang Wei (1979-), PRC badminton player, women's doubles specialist | |
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| | women's quarters | |
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| | square dancing, an exercise routine performed to music in public squares, parks and plazas, popular esp. among middle-aged and retired women in China | |
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| | (of women) beginning of menstrual cycle / full-term gestation | |
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| | lady's demeanor / norms expected of women (in former times) | |
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| | informal wear / home clothes (old) / women's underwear / lingerie | |
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| | camisole (women's garment) | |
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| | to make hanky-panky / to seduce women | |
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| | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women | |
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| | (slang) negative, toxic competition between women (esp. in seeking the favor and approval of men) | |
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| | "she-economy" reflecting women's economic contribution / euphemism for prostitution-based economy | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | men and women should not touch hands when they give or receive things (citation, from Mencius) | |
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| | nüshu writing, a phonetic syllabary for Yao ethnic group 瑤族|瑶族 dialect designed and used by women in Jiangyong county 江永縣|江永县 in southern Hunan | |
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| | women (in general) | |
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| | Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society | |
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| | (of women) grieved appearance (idiom) / sorrowful mien | |
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| | Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts to women for their companionship and sexual favors | |
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| | widow's peak (in China, regarded as attractive in women) | |
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| | (derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order) | |
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| | yellow flower (cosmetic powder used on women's forehead in former times) | |
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| | three women makes a crowd | |
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| | crown or tiara of a queen, empress or beauty pageant winner / first place in a women's competition | |
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| | director of the local committee of the Women's Federation | |
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| | women's movement / feminism | |
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| | to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women / an incorrigible drunkard and lecher | |
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| | follower of wine and women / dissolute person | |
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| | three women are enough for a drama (idiom) | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | All-China Women's Federation (PRC, established 1949) | |
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| | International Women's Day (March 8) | |
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| | women's suffrage | |
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| | to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc) | |
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| | lit. the flowers in one's garden cannot match the fragrance of wild flowers (idiom) / fig. other women seem more attractive than one's own partner / the grass is always greener on the other side | |
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| | Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc | |
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| | female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers. | |
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| | men go out to work and women stay at home (idiom) | |
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| | women love bad guys | |
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| | men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb) | |
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| | (men) sideburns / (women) lengths of hair that hang down over the temples | |
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