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1 son
2 child
3 seed
4 egg
5 small thing
6 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
7 Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
8 ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)

Idioms (20)

一清二白

yī qīng èr bái

1 perfectly clean
2 blameless
3 unimpeachable (idiom)

一瓶子不响，半瓶子晃荡

yī píng zi bù xiǎng , bàn píng zi huàng dang

1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise

不入虎穴，焉得虎子

bù rù hǔ xué , yān dé hǔ zǐ

1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

不分皂白

bù fēn zào bái

1 not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong

不分青红皂白

bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái

1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
2 not to distinguish between right and wrong

Sample Sentences

围棋入门的开篇都是这样讲的嘛。围棋的棋子啊像纽扣一样，下围棋的双方呢，一方用黑子，一方用白子。

wéiqí rùmén de kāipiān dōu shì zhèyàng jiǎng de ma 。wéiqí de qízǐ a xiàng niǔkòu yīyàng ，xià wéiqí de shuāngfāng ne ，yīfāng yòng hēizǐ ，yīfāng yòng báizǐ 。

The fundamentals of go are always introduced this way. The pieces in go resemble buttons. When the game begins, one person uses black pieces and the other uses white pieces.

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小宝记住了，黑子和白子，和昨天讲的麻将牌样子是不一样的哦。

Xiǎo bǎo jìzhu le ，hēizǐ hé báizǐ ，hé zuótiān jiǎng de májiàngpái yàngzi shì bù yīyàng de o 。

Remember, Xiao Bao, black pieces and white pieces. They're different from the Majiang pieces we talked about yesterday.

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