38th parallel, forming the DMZ border between North and South Korea
old-fashioned square table to seat eight people
baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing)
baguazhang (a form of Chinese boxing)
1.eight-trigram battle array2.(fig.) mystifying tactics
erhua variant of 八哥[bā gē]
step with feet splayed outwards
sloping eyebrows, formed like character for "eight"
mustache shaped like character 八
Pasho, a county in Chamdo City 昌都市[chāng dū shì], Tibet
Babaoshan, a hill in Shijingshan District, Beijing, site of the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery 八宝山革命公墓[bā bǎo shān gé mìng gōng mù]
rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc
Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year
Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet
the eight influential points (acupuncture)
Ba Ji Quan "Eight Extremes Fist" - Martial Art
Babu, a district of Hezhou City 贺州市[hè zhōu shì], Guangxi
eight-section brocade, a traditional eight-part sequence of qigong exercises
lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)
formal recommendation letter in eight columns
Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet, aka 八廓街[bā kuò jiē]
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination
Octopus (Hong Kong smart card system for electronic payments)
1.8:00 p.m. time slot (on television)2.(Tw) (coll.) television drama series that airs in the prime time slot of 8:00 p.m.
Jiang Zemin's 江泽民[jiāng zé mín] eight propositions on developing relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, presented in a 1995 speech
Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month
Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar
1.Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake2.Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
drab, stereotypical Communist Party writing style
1.at sixes and sevens2.perturbed state of mind3.in a mess
1.(idiom) twisting and turning2.(idiom) tricky and complicated
(idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
1.misshapen2.crooked3.uneven (idiom)
1.lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom)2.fig. greatly reduced3.substantially scaled back
1.assembled at random2.a motley collection
term used in Taiwan for 黑白无常[hēi bái wú cháng]
1.bits and pieces2.scattered fragments