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