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Chengyu

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cantonounOne of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
chihnoun(obsolete) Alternative form of chi. [The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.]
chu-ko-nunounAn early Chinese repeating crossbow.
syceenoun(historical) Any of various gold or silver ingots used as currency in imperial China.
coverbnoun(grammar) Any of a class of words in various languages including Chinese and Hungarian whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions, and postpositions of other languages.
curly cuhnoun(British, childish) The letter C, as distinct from the letter K ("kicking kuh").
cingnounAlternative form of Qing. [Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the last imperial dynasty of China.]
kuchenounSynonym of Kuqa: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
chinawarenounSynonym of china: porcelain tableware.
ciceronianismnoun(uncountable) Imitation of, or resemblance to, the literary style or actions of Cicero.
cynghaneddnoun(prosody) The complex system of internal assonance, alliteration and rhyme in Welsh strict-meter poetry.
cleft sentencenoun(linguistics) A complex sentence whose meaning could be expressed by a simple sentence, that has a dependent clause in front of the main clause, and that typically stresses a particular constituent.
cliticnoun(linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
cleftingnoun(linguistics) The formation of a cleft sentence.
cuernounOne who cues.
curlycuenoun(dated) A flourish; a caper.
cymeletnoun(botany) A little cyme.
cyningnounAn Anglo-Saxon (early English) king.
chimenoun(music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
cryptolectnoun(linguistics) A secretive language form used by a subculture; an arcane cant.

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