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月亮 yuè liang the moon
月球 yuè qiú the moon
yīn overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia
yuè moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]
卫星 wèi xīng satellite / moon / CL:顆|颗[ke1]
圣筊 shèng jiǎo (folk religion) favorable divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (one flat side and one rounded side up); affirmative response from a deity
yuán circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
阴筊 yīn jiǎo (folk religion) unfavorable divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (both blocks rounded side up); negative response from a deity
立筊 jiǎo (folk religion) inconclusive divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (at least one block lands on its edge); result interpreted as unclear or exceptional
笑筊 xiào jiǎo (folk religion) inconclusive divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (both blocks flat side up); ambiguous or noncommittal response from a deity
下山 xià shān to go down a hill / (of the sun or moon) to set
跋桮 bēi (Tw) (folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pua̍h-pue]) (equivalent to Mandarin 擲筊|掷筊[zhi4 jiao3])
上山 shàng shān to climb a hill / to go to the mountains / (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons) / to pass away / (of the sun or moon) to rise
蟾宫折桂 chán gōng zhé guì lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon) / fig. to succeed in the imperial examination
朔月 shuò yuè new moon / first day of the lunar month
wàng full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards
日月 yuè the sun and moon / day and month / every day and every month / season / life and livelihood
嫦娥 Cháng é Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology) / one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft
闭月羞花 yuè xiū huā lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom) / fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world
明月 míng yuè bright moon / refers to 夜明珠, a legendary pearl that can glow in the dark / CL:輪|轮[lun2]
众星捧月 zhòng xīng pěng yuè lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure / to group around a revered leader / to revolve around sb
千载难逢 qiān zǎi nán féng extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
星月 xīng yuè the moon and the stars
日月五星 yuè xīng sun, moon and the five visible planets
月牙 yuè crescent moon


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