venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera)
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Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.
lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom) / fig. birthing a son at an advanced age
exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
to earn a living (esp. with negative)
dropout student
viviparous
embryogenesis
axillary (botany) / budding in the angle between branch and stem
Cymbidium macrorrhizum Lindl.
(biology) autotroph
inherent / innate
shelled peanut / peanut kernel
(loanword) fashion show
to drift and live without purpose (idiom) / to drag out an ignoble existence
to torment the people (idiom)
to burgeon / to produce / to conceive / to be in the initial stage
air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) / to put down roots
peanut (the plant)
(area where) vegetation grows / the common people
trailing plant / liana / creeper / overgrown
creeper / climbing plant / twiner
to revive / to come back to life
lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death
glycemic index
spin-off series (TV)
derivative (finance)
derivative / offshoot
derivative product / derivative (in finance)
(Tw) sanitary sewer system
mothball / (jocular term) bullet
health official
(provincial) department of health
tampon
mothball
toilet paper
disposable chopsticks
health bureau (or office, or department, or agency)
period underwear / menstrual underwear / (Tw) long johns
sanitary equipment
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