the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[] and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 / sexagenary cycle
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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.
to interfere in state affairs / to meddle in politics
interferometer (physics)
(formal) to transgress / to encroach upon
witness (in a law suit)
secretary-general
to quarrel (dialect)
(Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother")
what are you doing? / what for? / why? (often expressing surprise or annoyance)
ability / capable
capability / capable person
(dialect) to come to blows / to have a row
school for cadres / May 7 Cadre School 五七幹校|五七干校[]
(Singapore, Malaysia) to commit an offence
main stream (of a river)
trunk canal
cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people
(Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense
police / police cadres
arterial road / main road / main watercourse
(coll.) to have a meal
unclean / filthy / foul-mouthed
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
noninterference / nonintervention
to be irrelevant / to have nothing to do with
trunk / main / core
core network
core network / backbone network
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste
to freeze-dry / freeze-dried food (such as meat or fruit)
to be assiduous and work full hours
to have the full responsibility of a job / allocated task
erhua variant of 包乾|包干[]
a system of payment partly in kind and partly in cash
lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom) / fig. to turn hostility into friendship
the ten Heavenly Stems 甲[], 乙[], 丙[], 丁[], 戊[], 己[], 庚[], 辛[], 壬[], 癸[] (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
same as 天干 / the 10 heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number like Roman I, II, III)
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom) / to talk too much
(idiom) to devour (food) / (idiom) to shamelessly take advantage / to ruthlessly exploit
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27