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- insipid
- diluted
- weak
- mild
- light in color
- tasteless
- indifferent
- (variant of 氮[dan4]) nitrogen
Trad. 鹹淡
- salty and unsalty (flavors)
- degree of saltiness
- brackish (water)
- to fade out (cinema)
- to withdraw from (politics, acting etc)
- to fade from (memory)
- to water down
- to play down
- to trivialize
- to weaken
- to become dull with time
- to desalinate
- desalination
- to gradually forget as time passes; to have (sth) fade from one's memory
- Tamsui or Danshui, district of New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- to regard as unimportant
- to be indifferent to (fame, wealth etc)
- (of an economy or a market) to slacken
Trad. 淡水區
- Tamsui or Danshui District, New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
Trad. 淡紫鳾
- (bird species of China) yellow-billed nuthatch (Sitta solangiae)
Trad. 粗茶淡飯
- plain tea and simple food
- (fig.) bread and water
Trad. 淡喉鷯鶥
- (bird species of China) pale-throated wren-babbler (Spelaeornis kinneari)
Trad. 平淡無奇
- ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
Trad. 淡妝濃抹
- in light or heavy makeup (idiom)
Trad. 淡尾鶲鶯
- (bird species of China) Alström's warbler (Phylloscopus soror)
- not caring about fame and fortune (idiom)
- indifferent to worldly rewards
- living a simple life as one's ideal (idiom)
Trad. 淡眉柳鶯
- (bird species of China) Hume's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus humei)
Trad. 淡綠鵙鶥
- (bird species of China) green shrike-babbler (Pteruthius xanthochlorus)
Trad. 淡腳樹鶯
- (bird species of China) pale-footed bush warbler (Hemitesia pallidipes)
Trad. 淡頦仙鶲
- (bird species of China) pale-chinned flycatcher (Cyornis poliogenys)
Trad. 冷淡關係
- cold relations (e.g. between countries)
Trad. 慘淡經營
- to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
Trad. 輕描淡寫
- (idiom) to treat sth as no big deal
- to downplay
- to understate
Trad. 淡灰眉岩鵐
- (bird species of China) rock bunting (Emberiza cia)
- (bird species of China) pale martin (Riparia diluta)
Trad. 淡黃腰柳鶯
- (bird species of China) lemon-rumped warbler (Phylloscopus chloronotus)
Trad. 淡腹點翅朱雀
- (bird species of China) Sharpe's rosefinch (Carpodacus verreauxii)
- a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])