(botany) fern; bracken; brake
1. (linguistics) part of speech2. word class3. lexical category
finch (family Fringillidae)
bast fiber plant (general term for hemp, flax, jute, ramie etc)
1. class Amphibia2. amphibians
1. a ledger2. a spreadsheet
ancient human species such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis
centipedes and millipedes
1. reptiles2. also written 爬行类
characteristic class (math.)
primate (monkey, hominid etc)
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
1. to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)2. to fail utterly in trying to copy something3. to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
1. to call up all one's associates2. rent-a-crowd
new generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
education for everyone, irrespective of background
1. similar things come together (idiom); like draws like2. Birds of a feather flock together.
1. to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom)2. to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
1. cartilaginous fishes2. Chondrichthyes (taxonomic class including sharks and rays)
Riwoche, a county in Chamdo City 昌都市[chāng dū shì], Tibet
画虎不成反类犬 畫虎不成反類犬 huà hǔ bù chéng fǎn lèi quǎn 1. to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom)2. to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
a living being (esp. human)
Shenglei, the earliest Chinese rime dictionary with 11,520 single-character entries, released in 3rd century (was not preserved to this day)
Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司马光[sī mǎ guāng] et al in 11th century