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Trad. 蓮步
- (literary) light, airy steps (as if walking on lotuses); elegant gait of a woman
Trad. 蓮花
- lotus flower (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn, among others)
- water-lily
Trad. 蓮都
- Liandu district of Lishui city 麗水市|丽水市[Li2 shui3 shi4], Zhejiang
Trad. 並蒂蓮
- lit. twin lotus flowers on one stalk
- fig. a devoted married couple
Trad. 榴蓮族
- worker who is capable but unpleasant to deal with
Trad. 五蓮縣
- Wulian county in Rizhao 日照[Ri4 zhao4], Shandong
Trad. 阿蓮區
- Alian, a rural district of Kaohsiung 高雄市[Gao1 xiong2 Shi4], Taiwan
Trad. 潘金蓮
- Pan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅
Trad. 蓮池區
- Lianchi, a district of Baoding City 保定市[Bao3 ding4 Shi4], Hebei
Trad. 蓮湖區
- Lianhu District of Xi’an 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4], Shaanxi
Trad. 蓮花縣
- Lianhua, a county in Pingxiang City 萍鄉市|萍乡市[Ping2 xiang1 Shi4], Jiangxi
Trad. 蓮花落
- genre of folk song with accompaniment of bamboo clappers
Trad. 蓮都區
- Liandu district of Lishui city 麗水市|丽水市[Li2 shui3 shi4], Zhejiang
Trad. 舌燦蓮花
- (idiom) eloquent
- entertaining in one's speech
Trad. 三寸金蓮
- (historical) bound foot (esp. one only three inches long, considered the ideal size of a woman's foot)
Trad. 曼荷蓮學院
- Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts)
Trad. 啞巴吃黃蓮
- no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
- also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连
- (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[you3 ku3 shuo1 bu5 chu1])
Trad. 瑪麗蓮·夢露
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), US actress
Trad. 曼荷蓮女子學院
- see 曼荷蓮學院|曼荷莲学院[Man4 he2 lian2 Xue2 yuan4]