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[蟾宮折桂] chángōngzhéguì lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon)
fig. to succeed in the imperial examination

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        chánchú, toad
        chán, moon/(striped) toad

        Gōng/gōng, [宮], surname Gong, palace/temple/castration (as corporal punishment)/first note in pe...
        Báigōng, [白宮], White House
        zǐgōng, [子宮], uterus/womb
殿         gōngdiàn, [宮殿], palace/CL:座[zuò]
        mígōng, [迷宮], maze/labyrinth
        huánggōng, [皇宮], imperial palace
        gōngtíng, [宮廷], court (of king or emperor)
        gōngnǚ, [宮女], palace maid/CL:個|个[gè],名[míng],位[wèi]
        wánggōng, [王宮], imperial palace
        Lúfúgōng, [盧浮宮], the Louvre, museum in Paris
        
        hòugōng, [後宮], harem/chambers of imperial concubines
        KèlǐmǔlínGōng, [克里姆林宮], the Kremlin
        
        
        Nángōng, [南宮], Nangong county level city in Xingtai 邢台[Xíng tái], Hebei
        
        Tiāngōng, [天宮], Temple in Heaven (e.g. of the Jade Emperor)
        
        
        
        
        
        dǎrùlěnggōng, [打入冷宮], to snub/to consign to the trash heap of history
        
        Gōngběn, [宮本], Miyamoto (Japanese surname)
        èrjìngōng, [二進宮], name of a famous opera/(slang) to go to jail for a second offense
        xínggōng, [行宮], temporary imperial residence
        
        Shuǐjīnggōng, [水晶宮], The Crystal Palace
        
        
        
        Gōngchéng, [宮城], Miyagi prefecture in the north of Japan's main island Honshū 本州[Běn zhōu]
        
        
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        ShàoniánGōng, [少年宮], Children's Palace, institution where children can take part in various extracurr...
        
        
        
        Dōnggōng, [冬宮], Winter Palace (St Petersburg)/Hermitage Museum
        
        
        gōngxíng, [宮刑], castration (archaic punishment)
        
        
        yuègōng, [月宮], Palace in the Moon (in folk tales)
        
        pōugōngchǎn, [剖宮產], Cesarean section
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        lěnggōng, [冷宮], (in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubin...
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        

        zhémó, to torment/to torture
        gǔzhé, to suffer a fracture/(of a bone) to break/fracture
        shé/zhē/zhé, [摺], to break (e.g. stick or bone)/a loss, to turn sth over/to turn upside down/to ti...
        zhēteng, [折騰], to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly)/to repeat sth over and over again/t...
        zhéduàn, [折斷], to snap sth off/to break
        cuòzhé, setback/reverse/check/defeat/frustration/disappointment/to frustrate/to discoura...
        dǎzhé, to give a discount
        zhékòu, discount
        zhédié, [折疊], to fold/collapsible/folding (bicycle, antenna, bed etc)
        zhuǎnzhédiǎn, [轉折點], turning point/breaking point
        bùzhébùkòu, a hundred percent/to the letter/out-and-out
        qūzhé, winding/(fig.) complicated
        zhuǎnzhé, [轉折], shift in the trend of events/turnaround/plot shift in a book/turn in the convers...
        cúnzhé, [存摺], passbook/bankbook
        zhōuzhé, twists and turns/vicissitude/complication/difficulty/effort/CL:番[fān]
        zhéfú, to convince/to subdue/to be convinced/to be bowled over
        bōzhé, twists and turns
        zhézhōng, to compromise/to take the middle road/a trade-off/eclectic
        zhézhōng, variant of 折中[zhé zhōng]
        yāozhé, to die young or prematurely/to come to a premature end/to be aborted prematurely
        zhéhuí, to turn back/to retrace one's steps
        zhéshè, to refract/refraction/to reflect (in the figurative sense: to show the nature of...
        dǎzhékòu, to give a discount/to be of less value than anticipated
        zhéfǎn, to turn back
        
        duìzhé, [對摺], to sell at a 50% discount/to fold in two
        cuòzhégǎn, frustration
        
        zhédiéyǐ, [折疊椅], folding chair/deck chair
        
        zhédāo, clasp knife/folding knife
        pòzhéhào, [破折號], dash/Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)
寿         zhéshòu, [折壽], to have one's life shortened (by excesses etc)
        
        zhéyāo, to bend at the waist/to bow/(fig.) to bow to/to submit
        zhéguì, to win the laurels/to pass an imperial examination/to win a championship
        bǎizhébùnáo, [百折不撓], to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom)/to be undaunted by repeated...
        zhéhé, to convert into/to amount to/to be equivalent to
        yībōsānzhé, calligraphic flourish with many twists/fig. many twists and turns
        zhéshàn, folding fan
        zhéguāng, [摺光], refraction, refraction
        zhésuàn, to convert (between currencies)
        
        
        
        zhéshèlǜ, index of refraction
        

        ròuguì, Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)
        guìguān, laurel/victory garland (in Greek and Western culture)
        Guì/guì, surname Gui/abbr. for Guangxi Autonomous Region 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区[Guǎng xī Zhuàng ...
        guìpí, Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamonum cassia)/cassia bark
        
        
        
        zhéguì, to win the laurels/to pass an imperial examination/to win a championship
        
        
        
        Guìlín, Guilin prefecture-level city in Guangxi
        Guìgé, Quaker (company)
        guìhuā, osmanthus flowers/Osmanthus fragrans
        
        
        
        
        

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