| | beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself) | HSK 1 |
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| | down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action | HSK 1 |
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| | back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post- | HSK 1 |
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| | goodbye / see you again later | HSK 1 |
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| | evening / night / late | HSK 1 |
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| | the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards | HSK 1 |
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| | after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future | HSK 2 |
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| | afterwards; later / newly arrived | HSK 2 |
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| | (bound form) general; overall / to sum up / in every case; always; invariably / anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理 or 總編|总编 etc | HSK 3 |
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| | the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards | HSK 3 |
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| | to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later | HSK 3 |
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| | (of trains etc) late / delayed / behind schedule / light dinner | HSK 4 |
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| | to arrive late | HSK 4 |
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| | there's not enough time (to do sth) / it's too late (to do sth) | HSK 4 |
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| | behind / the back / the rear / later / afterwards / (in) the future | HSK 4 |
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| | late / delayed / slow | HSK 5 |
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| | early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another | HSK 5 |
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| | to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by | HSK 5 |
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| | liver (CL: 葉|叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy | HSK 6 |
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| | old-fashioned / out of date / to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon | HSK 6 |
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| | to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides | HSK 6 |
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| | morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future | HSK 6 |
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| | in a moment / later / also pr. [dai1 hui3 r5] or [dai1 hui5 r5] | HSK 6 |
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| | to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night | HSK 6 |
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| | cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits | HSK 7-9 |
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| | later period / end stage / terminal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | later generation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to stay up late or all night | HSK 7-9 |
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| | late (with a task etc) / slow | HSK 7-9 |
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| | descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations | HSK 7-9 |
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| | late stage / later period | HSK 7-9 |
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| | very late at night | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sooner or later | HSK 7-9 |
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| | next / later / after that | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one's later years | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted | HSK 7-9 |
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| | as soon as possible / at the first opportunity / the sooner the better / before it's too late | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname Zhao / one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476-220 BC) / the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵 (304-329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵 (319-350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms | |
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| | lesson plan / teaching plan / a "missionary case" (a dispute over Christian missionaries during the late Qing) | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) / surname Yan | |
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| | rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld | |
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| | surname Jin / the Jin Dynasties (265-420) / Western Jin 西晉|西晋 (265-316), Eastern Jin 東晉|东晋 (317-420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936-946) / short name for Shanxi province 山西 | |
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| | Liang Dynasty (502-557) / Later Liang Dynasty (907-923) / surname Liang | |
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| | Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220 | |
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| | to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages | |
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| | History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls | |
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| | the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉 (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421) | |
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| | refers to the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184) | |
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| | to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later / to decide behind closed doors / all cut and dried | |
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| | 10th month of the lunar calendar / Indian summer / crops sown in late autumn | |
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| | Burgundy (Bourgogne), a medieval kingdom and later a powerful duchy, now a region of France | |
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| | xiaolian, two examination subjects in Han, later a single subject in Ming and Qing / successful second degree candidate | |
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| | to misdiagnose / to be late in giving medical treatment | |
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| | later generations | |
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| | the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August | |
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| | to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process | |
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| | the late / deceased | |
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| | East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer) | |
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| | same as 舊唐書|旧唐书, History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls | |
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| | late / quiet | |
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| | to pay sb else's expense with the expectation of being reimbursed by that person later | |
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| | Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金 (from 1616) | |
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| | railing / balustrade / door-screen / exhausted / late | |
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| | ex-wife / late wife | |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后 | |
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| | late autumn | |
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| | to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages | |
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| | the future is long (idiom); there will be ample time for that later / We'll cross that bridge when we get there | |
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| | to notify at a different time / to notify later / to give prior notice | |
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| | the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝 / late Qing | |
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| | to be late for or absent from work / to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work / loss of working time; a holdup | |
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| | to leave early and return late (idiom) | |
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| | too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless to repent after the event. | |
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| | midnight snack / late-night snack | |
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| | to be late / to arrive slowly / to be slow in the coming | |
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| | the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China | |
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| | blueprint / source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based | |
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| | to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late | |
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| | See you later! | |
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| | to fall short of / not as good as / too late | |
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| | Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor / posthumous name 清太宗 | |
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| | end of month / late in the month | |
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| | too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless to repent after the event. | |
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| | to defer / to put off (until later) / to postpone | |
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| | Later Jin dynasty (from 1616-) / Manchu Khanate or kingdom that took over as Qing dynasty in 1644 | |
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| | (idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night | |
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| | Later Han or Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) / Later Han of the Five Dynasties (947-950) | |
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| | Later Tang of the Five Dynasties (923-936) | |
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| | not on time / late (public transport, airlines) / overdue / behind schedule / delayed | |
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| | late at night / in the dead of night | |
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| | Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645) | |
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| | to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom) / to compensate later for one's earlier loss / what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts | |
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| | soon after / later / then | |
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| | Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923) | |
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| | late Ming / first half of the 17th century | |
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| | something to be taken up later in speech or writing | |
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| | Li Zhi (1527-1602), late Ming philosopher, historian and writer | |
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| | Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动 | |
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