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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)

孩子

hái zi

1 child

Idioms (20)

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.

不见兔子不撒鹰

bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng

1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
2 one doesn't act without some incentive

乱臣贼子

luàn chén zéi zǐ

1 rebels and traitors (idiom)
2 general term for scoundrel

仁人君子

rén rén jūn zǐ

1 people of good will (idiom); charitable person

Sample Sentences

哎，不对，不对。你怎么拔稻子啊？割稻子是用镰刀割的，像这样，一只手抓住稻草，另一只手抓住镰刀，在根部上来一点的地方，用力地割下去。你看，这样多快！

āi ，bù duì ，bù duì 。nǐ zěnme bá dàozi a ？gē dàozi shì yòng liándāo gē de ，xiàng zhèyàng ，yī zhī shǒu zhuāzhù dàocǎo ，lìng yī zhī shǒu zhuāzhù liándāo ，zài gēnbù shànglái yīdiǎn de dìfang ，yònglì de gē xiàqu 。nǐ kàn ，zhèyàng duō kuài ！

Hey, that's not right! Why are you pulling up the rice? When we harvest, we use a sickle – like this: with one hand grab the rice straw, and with the other hand hold the sickle. Grab it a little bit above the root and cut it with force. See, this way it goes really quickly!

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大伯，天还是黑乎乎的，割稻子的时候会不会把手给割破了？

dàbó ，tiān háishì hēihūhū de ，gē dàozi de shíhou huì bu huì bǎ shǒu gěi gē pò le ？

Uncle, it's still pretty dark out. When you harvest the rice, won't you cut your hands?

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