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修
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Definitions
- 1. to decorate
- 2. to embellish
- 3. to repair
- 4. to build
- 5. to write
- 6. to cultivate
- 7. to study
- 8. to take (a class)
Example Sentences
1 shown你 修 。
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Words Containing 修
monk (Christian)
(of Taoists) to practice austerities
revise
to amend a law
to study on one's own
to overhaul
to have a shave
to have an untroubled heart and behave morally (idiom)
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology
Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), Northern Song dynasty prose writer and historian
to rebuild (house or road)
Xiuwu county in Jiaozuo 焦作[jiāo zuò], Henan
(education) double major
to revise downward
tinker
to amend the constitution
guarantee period
Odysseus, hero of Homer's Odyssey
Thucydides trap (theory that war results when a dominant established power fears the rise of a rival power)
to practice Daoism
nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)
to decorate
to compile and revise
Xiuwu county in Jiaozuo 焦作[jiāo zuò], Henan
to prune
(literary) long and arduous (road)
required course
maintenance (of equipment)
mendicant religious order in Catholicism
to make friends again
correction fluid
construction plan
Xiushui county in Jiujiang 九江, Jiangxi
research worker
seminary (Christian college)
to amend
to cultivate one's moral character
water conservancy
dilapidated
to make level; to make even; to trim
to do research work
not care about one's appearance (idiom)
voicing (adjustment of timbre, loudness etc of organ or other musical instrument)
pedicure
to practice Zen (esp. meditation)
Tang dynasty compendium of herbal medicine
revised edition (of a book)
friar; frater
to cultivate friendship with neighbors
modifier (grammar)
undecorated
to build
to mend
Yongxiu county in Jiujiang 九江, Jiangxi
to restore; to renovate
Danny Lee Sau-Yin (1953-), Hong Kong actor and director
Priory of Zion (fictional masonic order)
to compile
monasticism
revisionism
rhetoric
to spruce up
member of religious order
monastery
abbey
revision history (of a document, web page etc)
refurbishment; renovation
auto repair
figure of speech
to restore (an ancient temple)
monastery (Christian)
accomplishment
order (of monks)
manicure
(grammar) modifier
to study
Xiuwen County in Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[guì yáng], Guizhou
abbot
Xiushui county in Jiujiang 九江, Jiangxi
to promise to keep sth in good repair
slender
Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology
contemplation
to revise
rhetoric
to achieve Buddhahood through one's efforts and insight
lit. to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal
to study at school
manicure
to repair a bike (car etc)
(of a person) beautiful inside and out
repair shop
Thucydides (c. 455 - c. 400 BC), Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
convent
optional course (in school)
to reconstruct
Yongxiu county in Jiujiang 九江, Jiangxi
to cultivate the heart and nurture the character (idiom); to improve oneself by meditation
go-between
amendment
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology
person pursuing religious practice (Buddhism)
pedicurist
(at a school) to take as an elective
to build
to renovate
to repair
repair workshop (for machinery, vehicles etc)
to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism)
revised draft
to undertake advanced studies
postmodifier (grammar)
to minor in
to build
a cobbler
lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[wèi hé] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[liú bāng] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[xiàng yǔ] of Chu)
(education) to major in
to become revisionist
religious order
to revise
to repair
to repair earthworks
disrepair
to repair (sth broken)
genetic modification
the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you
to decorate
revised edition
to compile and edit
premodifier (grammar)
to repair
to retouch images
overhaul
to repair in a rush
to revise
Odysseus
Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888), German physicist and mathematician
to practice (an activity)
fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan)
Xiuwen County in Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[guì yáng], Guizhou
start of the year
(of an academic course) required
abbot
to repair a road