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長長地
a bit long
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長陽土家族自治縣
Mandarin: chang2 yang2 Tu3 jia1 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
Changyang Tujiazu autonomous county (county in Hubei)
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長青隧道
Mandarin: chang2 qing1 sui4 dao4
Simplified: 长青隧道
Cheung Tsing Tunnel, a tunnel on Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong
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長順
Mandarin: chang2 shun4
Changshun (place in Guizhou)
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長頭髮
long hair
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長頸漏斗
Mandarin: chang2 jing3 lou4 dou3
thistle funnel
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長頸瓶
Mandarin: chang2 jing3 ping2
a flask (type of long-necked vessel for liquids)
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長頸鹿
Mandarin: chang2 jing3 lu4
Giraffe, literally "long necked deer". Traditionally known as 麒麟.
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長驅直入
Mandarin: chang2 qu1 zhi2 ru4
Simplified: 长驱直入
to drive straight in; to march straight into
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長鬚鯨
Mandarin: chang2 xu1 jing1
Simplified: 长须鲸
a finback, a fin whale
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長魚
Mandarin: chang2 yu2
Simplified: 长鱼
an eel, a type of fish
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長魚
an eel
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闖
Mandarin: chuang3
Simplified: 闯
to rush | to charge | to dash | to break through | to temper oneself (through battling hardships) | to burst in | to go around | to incur | to invite | to cause (a disaster) | # adapted from cc-cedict
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闖入
inrush, interlope
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闖將
Mandarin: chuang3 jiang4
Simplified: 闯将
someone who is daring to venture forward; a daring general; a pathbreaker
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闖江湖
Mandarin: chuang3 jiang1 hu2
Simplified: 闯江湖
make a living wandering from place to place
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闖蕩
Mandarin: chuang3 dang4
Simplified: 闯荡
to leave home to make a living
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闖進
Mandarin: chuang3 jin4
burst in
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闖關東
Mandarin: chuang3 Guan1 dong1
Simplified: 闯关东
literally: 'to brave the journey to Guandong', describes the rush of the Han Chinese population into Manchuria, especially from the Shandong Peninsula and Zhili, during the hundred-year period starting in the last half of the 19th century
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闡揚
Mandarin: chan3 yang2
explain in detail and make known; expound and promulgate
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闡發
Mandarin: chan3 fa1
make clear; expound and clarify; elucidate
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闡釋
Mandarin: chan3 shi4
expound; explain; interpret
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阡
Mandarin: qian1
road leading north and south | footpaths between fields | paths | # adapted from cc-cedict
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阡陌
Mandarin: qian1 mo4
crisscross footpaths between the fields
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除
Mandarin: tuo1
Simplified: 脱
Cantonese
to take off (clothes, Cantonese)
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除了
Mandarin: chu2 le5
except; excluding (spoken Cantonese equivalent: 除咗)
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除了之外
Mandarin: chu2le5 zhi1wai4
apart from; other than; except [written]
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除去障礙
Mandarin: chu2 qu4 zhang4 ai4
[v] unblock
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除咗
Mandarin: chu2 zuo5
Cantonese
aside from; except for; unless
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除夕
Mandarin: chu2 xi1 (PRC), chu2 xi4 (Taiwan)
(solar/Gregorian calendar) New Year's Eve
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