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but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though

"seal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 26)

grain / corn

valley

to cool off / cooling

to forget

coolant

to resolve / to settle

cooling tower

to shrink back / to flinch

to step back

to save / to get rid of (so saving space)

just now

nevertheless / actually / the fact is ...

to refuse would be impolite

to decline / to refuse politely

to prevent or treat a disease

cooling water (in a reactor)

unable to refuse because of affection

to discard

to repel / to decline

there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things

to die / to be done with this world

but on the contrary / but unexpectedly