xiù
handsome
refined
elegant
graceful
performance
ear of grain
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CL:場|场[chang2]
xiū
to decorate
to embellish
to repair
to build
to write
to cultivate
to study
to take (a class)
xiū
to rest
to stop doing sth for a period of time
to cease
(imperative) don't
xiū
cultivate
repair
teacher's pay
xiǔ
night
classifier for nights
xiù
to smell
to sniff
to nose
xiū
shy
ashamed
shame
bashful
variant of 饈|馐[xiu1]
delicacies
xiù
sleeve
to tuck inside one's sleeve
Ōu yáng Xiū
Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), Northern Song dynasty prose writer and historian
xiù
variant of 銹|锈, to corrode
to rust
Táng Sòng bā dà jiā
Eight Giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修, the Three Su father and sons 三蘇|三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩
Xīn Táng shū
History of the Later Tang Dynasty, seventeenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1] and Song Qi 宋祁[Song4 Qi2] in 1060 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 225 scrolls
jìn mò zhě hēi
proximity to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修); different environments provide different influence.
Nurture determines a person's character.
xiù
quickly-deteriorating jade
jìn zhū zhě chì , jìn mò zhě hēi
proximity to cinnabar makes you red, to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修); different environments provide different influence.
Nurture determines a person's character.
xiū
see 貔貅[pi2 xiu1], composite mythical animal (originally 貅 was the female)
xiù
sleeve
ample flowing robes
Xīn Wǔ dài shǐ
Later History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), nineteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1] in 1053 during Northern Song Dynasty, 74 scrolls
xiū
water in which rice was boiled
dé bó néng xiǎn
little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 欧阳修)
jìn zhū zhě chì , jìn mò zhě hēi
proximity to cinnabar makes you red, to pitch makes you black (idiom, from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修); different environments provide different influence.
Nurture determines a person's character.
xiū
dried meat
private teacher's remuneration
withered
variant of 修[xiu1]
xiǔ
water in which rice was boiled
slops
swill
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