Results for “十”

all walks of life (idiom) / every trade

regardless of the consequences / recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast

21st century

20th century

twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)

the twenty-eight constellations

the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods

over 20

icosahedron

(idiom) bright and multicolored / of rich variety / dazzling / glitzy

(lit.) the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / (fig.) the pot calls the kettle black

adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)

lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine

the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yì jīng]

the sixties / the 1960s

lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties

lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom) / fig. revenge is a dish best served cold

last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve

lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was

rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)

last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve

(coll.) to look every bit the big star

unaccommodating / rigid

no gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect (proverb)

to make the sign of the cross / to make a cross (on paper)

about a hundred / a hundred or so

a hundred or so

see 一目十行[yī mù shí háng]

who cares / no matter what / regardless of the consequences

lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom) / fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise

listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)

ten years of practice for one minute on the stage (idiom)

28-spotted ladybird / hadda beetle / Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata

the Rosicrucian order (masonic order)

lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom) / fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets / a task is not done until it's done

various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒[rú] represented by Confucius 孔子[Kǒng zǐ] and Mencius 孟子[Mèng zǐ], Daoism 道[dào] by Laozi 老子[Lǎo zǐ] and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuāng zǐ], Mohism 墨[mò] by Mozi 墨子[Mò zǐ], Legalism 法[fǎ] by Sunzi 孫子|孙子[Sūn zǐ] and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子[Hán Fēi zǐ], and numerous others

lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom) / fig. you can't put it off forever / sooner or later you'll have to deal with it

see 躲得過初一，躲不過十五|躲得过初一，躲不过十五[duǒ de guò chū yī , duǒ bù guò shí wǔ]

Shanghai Y-10 / Yun-10 commercial jet aircraft

walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)