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1 umbrella-shaped

1 to illuminate

2 to light up

3 lighting

1 making an all-out effort (idiom); to try one's heart out

2 to do one's utmost

1 blade

1 passenger vehicle

1 lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom)

2 fig. an unrealistic rosy view

3 viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles

4 also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花

1 successive generations

2 successive dynasties

3 past dynasties

1 the New Year festival

1 Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty

1 to mend clothes

1 old language

2 the Classics

3 Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose

4 Classical Chinese as a school subject

1 both near and distant treated alike (idiom)

1 arch-enemy

2 sworn enemy

1 to stand opposite

2 to confront

3 confrontation

1 distilled liquor

2 spirits

1 bonesetting

2 Chinese osteopathy

1 blood in the pleural cavity

1 to lose one's virginity

1 gateway