stinking pretension / to give oneself airs and offend others / hateful arrogance
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Exact character matches appear first. Pinyin matches whole syllables in headword pronunciations. Common exact readings come before common compounds, followed by less frequent or restricted readings. Direct English meanings rank ahead of mentions in longer definitions.
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.
ladle / scoop
(coll.) wife's brother
old tune / fig. conservative opinion / the same old stuff
mustard gas
fuse / wick / forked tongue (of a snake)
attractive appearance, but without substance
flower bed
playboy
(slang) a cunning plot
(coll.) Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)
trickery / scam
young successor / seedling / sapling
hard times
long woven mat used to form a cylindrical grain bin
stubble
mug / tea mug
currant / gooseberry
straw mattress / palliasse
tick (zoology)
small, poorly-equipped theatrical troupe that tours small towns and villages / (fig.) makeshift band of individuals / rough and ready outfit
berry
a great number of students (idiom)
steamed bun stuffed with vegetables / (fig.) useless person / a good-for-nothing
chopping block
vegetable or food basket / (fig.) food supply
dodder (Cuscuta sinensis, a parasitic vine with seeds used in medicine)
radish seed (used in TCM to treat indigestion)
to place a stone on the board (in Go)
leaf arrangement / phyllotaxy (botany)
(Tw) fender (automotive)
caraway / Persian cumin (Carum carvi)
sunflower seeds
dirty joke
woven mat
lotus seed
rapeseed / seed of the rape plant
a tiger, though cruel, will not devour its cubs (idiom) / even wild beasts look after their young
lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific) / With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well. / like father, like son
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