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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

借东风jiè dōng fēng

lit. to use the eastern wind (idiom) / fig. to use sb's help

做东zuò dōng

to act as host

两样东西liǎng yàng dōng xi

two distinct things

只欠东风zhǐ qiàn dōng fēng

all we need is an east wind (idiom) / lacking only one tiny crucial item

大股东dà gǔ dōng

large stockholder / majority shareholder

失之东隅，收之桑榆shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yú

to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom) / to compensate later for one's earlier loss / what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

女房东nǚ fáng dōng

landlady

少东shào dōng

boss's son / young master / young boss

少东家shào dōng jiā

boss's son

拆东墙补西墙chāi dōng qiáng bǔ xī qiáng

(lit.) to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall (saying) / (fig.) to rob Peter to pay Paul

拆东补西chāi dōng bǔ xī

lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom) / fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul

旭日东升xù rì dōng shēng

(idiom) the morning sun rises in the eastern sky (fig. suggesting vitality and hope)

海东青hǎi dōng qīng

(bird species of China) gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)

无颜见江东父老wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo

(idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)