1. in one's seventies (age)2. very old (of people)
(idiom) bright and multicolored; of rich variety; dazzling; glitzy
1. ten lines at a glance (idiom)2. to read very rapidly
不管三七二十一 bù guǎn sān qī èr shí yī 1. regardless of the consequences2. recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast
the tens place (or column) in the decimal system
1. tenfold2. ten times (sth)
the ten commandments (religion)
1. more than ten2. a dozen or more
1. ten items2. decathlon (athletics)
1. Shanghai Y-102. Yun-10 commercial jet aircraft
the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 诗经[shī jīng], Book of History 尚书[shàng shū], Rites of Zhou 周礼[zhōu lǐ], Rites and Ceremonies 仪礼[yí lǐ], Classic of Rites 礼记[lǐ jì], Book of Changes 易经[yì jīng], Mr Zuo's Annals 左传[zuǒ zhuàn], Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊传[gōng yáng zhuàn], Mr Guliang's Annals 谷梁传[gǔ liáng zhuàn], The Analects 论语[lún yǔ], Erya 尔雅[ěr yǎ], Classic of Filial Piety 孝经[xiào jīng], Mencius 孟子[mèng zǐ]
the twelve equatorial constellations or signs of the zodiac in Western astronomy and astrology, namely: Aries 白羊[bái yáng], Taurus 金牛[jìn niú], Gemini 双子[shuāng zǐ], Cancer 巨蟹[jù xiè], Leo 狮子[shī zǐ], Virgo 室女[shì nǚ], Libra 天秤[tiān chèng], Scorpio 天蝎[tiān xiē], Sagittarius 人马[rén mǎ], Capricorn 摩羯[mó jié], Aquarius 宝瓶[bǎo píng], Pisces 双鱼[shuāng yú]
the 12 earthly branches 子[zǐ], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal number)
Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[hú běi shěng]
1. over one billion2. more than a billion
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[bó jiā qiū]
1. last day of the lunar year2. Chinese New Year's Eve
1. to make the sign of the cross2. to make a cross (on paper)
1. Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起义[wǔ chāng qǐ yì] of October 10th, 19112. (Tw) National Day
1. one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp2. sporadic effort3. lack of sticking power4. short attention span+1 条 1. The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction2. all the possible schemes and stratagems
thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
the Japanese Twenty-One Demands of 1915
twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)
the twenty-eight constellations
1. the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century2. fig. a long and complicated story
the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
Seventeen-Arch Bridge in the Summer Palace 颐和园[yí hé yuán], Beijing