| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | Chinese character / CL: 個|个 / Japanese: kanji / Korean: hanja / Vietnamese: hán tự | HSK 1 |
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| | name (of a person or thing) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | numeral / digit / number / figure / amount / digital (electronics etc) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | to sign (one's name) / signature | HSK 5 |
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| | to learn to read | HSK 6 |
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| | traditional Chinese character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | incorrectly written or mispronounced characters | HSK 7-9 |
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| | simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (financial) deficit / red letter | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to write (by hand) / to practice calligraphy | |
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| | cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | character with two or more readings | |
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| | original form of a Chinese character | |
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| | keyword | |
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| | movable type | |
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| | single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language) | |
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| | to type | |
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| | wrongly written or mispronounced character | |
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| | Red Cross | |
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| | betrothed | |
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| | braille | |
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| | to correct an erroneously written character / regular script (calligraphy) / standard form (of a character or spelling) | |
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| | incorrect character / typo (in Chinese text) | |
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| | diction; enunciation / (opera) to pronounce the words correctly | |
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| | oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script) | |
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| | Chinese characters | |
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| | ideograph / ideographical writing system | |
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| | Chinese character (Hanzi) / the native script used to write a nation's language | |
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| | literate / knowing how to read | |
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| | new character (in textbook) / character that is unfamiliar or not yet studied | |
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| | ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character | |
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| | variant Chinese character | |
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| | everyday words | |
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| | pictogram / hieroglyph | |
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| | to make the sign of the cross / to make a cross (on paper) | |
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| | literate / a cultured person | |
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| | to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc) / an inscription | |
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| | loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan | |
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| | to practice writing characters | |
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| | one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch | |
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| | regular script (Chinese calligraphic style) | |
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| | (written) in black and white | |
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| | absolute (as opposed to relative) number | |
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| | pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph | |
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| | the Latin alphabet | |
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| | Roman numerals | |
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| | to have one's fortune read / system of fortune telling based on a person's date and time of birth, according to 干支 (sexagenary cycle) | |
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| | bold letter | |
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| | character with two or more readings / character where different readings convey different meanings (Tw) | |
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| | to spell / spelling | |
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| | italics | |
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| | phonetic alphabet / alphabetic writing system | |
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| | Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎 in 2nd century | |
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| | Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a romanization system for Chinese devised by Y.R. Chao and others in 1925-26 | |
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| | phono-semantic compound character | |
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| | combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound | |
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| | cuneiform (Babylonian script) | |
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| | to tattoo | |
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| | mispronounced or wrongly written character | |
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| | Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | |
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| | (literary) (of a young lady) to be awaiting betrothal | |
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| | standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters | |
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| | T-shaped | |
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| | numeral / digit / number / figure | |
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| | literary name (an alternative name of a person stressing a moral principle) / courtesy name | |
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| | nonstandard form of a Chinese character | |
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| | Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character) | |
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| | to pronounce (clearly or otherwise) / to enunciate | |
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| | (printing) type; movable letters | |
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| | dead language / indecipherable script | |
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| | simplified Chinese character | |
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| | erroneous character / typographical error | |
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| | to practice writing characters | |
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| | sans serif (typography) | |
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| | nonstandard form of a Chinese character | |
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| | single-component character | |
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| | fortune telling by unpicking Chinese characters | |
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| | numeral / digit / counter | |
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| | a scholarly and inquisitive individual (idiom) | |
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| | obscenity | |
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| | obscure word / unfamiliar character | |
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| | abbreviated character / simplified character | |
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| | to create Chinese characters / cf Six Methods of forming Chinese characters 六書|六书 | |
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| | largest typeface / biggest letters | |
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| | to use letters / to use words / diction | |
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| | to write from memory | |
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| | (typography) ligature | |
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| | to spell / to compose words | |
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| | abbreviated character | |
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| | nonstandard or corrupted form of a Chinese character | |
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| | China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs / Unihan | |
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| | in a row; in a line | |
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| | (orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case) / consistent characters (e.g. 搖|摇, 遙|遥 and 謠|谣, which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo) | |
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| | (orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case) / inconsistent characters (e.g. 流, 梳 and 毓, which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component) | |
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| | illiterate | |
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| | abbreviated name of an entity (e.g. 皖政, a short name for 安徽省人民政府) / code name / (old) pronoun | |
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