| | at any time; at all times / at the right time; whenever necessary | HSK 2 |
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| | always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence) | HSK 3 |
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| | (two, three etc) -fold / times (multiplier) / double / to increase or multiply | HSK 4 |
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| | military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種｜种 | HSK 3 |
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| | ordinarily / in normal times / in peacetime | HSK 2 |
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| | many times / repeatedly | HSK 4 |
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| | person-times / visits / classifier for number of people participating | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ancient times | HSK 3 |
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| | the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) | HSK 4 |
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| | people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person | HSK 7-9 |
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| | modern times / modern age / modern era | HSK 3 |
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| | to suffer; to endure / to pull through (hard times) / to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle | HSK 6 |
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| | abreast of modern developments / to keep up with the times / progressive / timely | HSK 7-9 |
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| | China Times (newspaper published in Taiwan) | |
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| | since ancient times / since times immemorial | |
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| | to subdue / to check / to bring under control / (in former times) what one is allowed to wear depending on social status / uniform (army, party, school etc) / livery (for company employees) / CL: 套 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | court official (in former times) | |
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| | to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason | |
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| | several times (bigger) / double, treble, quadruple etc | |
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| | number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.) | HSK 6 |
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| | old system / weights and measures of former times | |
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| | lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation) | |
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| | a kind of metal or jade ornament worn in ancient times to ward off evil spirits | |
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| | (in former times) upper, middle and lower army / army of right, center and left / (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force | |
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| | bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom) / fig. to keep ready for battle at all times | |
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| | minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations | |
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| | an official (in former times) | |
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| | (idiom) things are very different now; times have changed | |
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| | (idiom) a thing should not be attempted more than three times; don't repeat the same mistake again and again / (idiom) bad things don't happen more than three times | |
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| | national general congress / Communist party national congress, in recent times every five years | |
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| | to double / to increase by a certain number of times | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times | |
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| | lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times | |
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| | teashop with performance by 評書｜评书 story tellers / (attached to name of publishing houses) / (in former times) private school / library (of classic texts) | |
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| | at all times | |
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| | generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings) | |
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| | guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times) | |
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| | at all times and in all places (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | tenfold / ten times (sth) | |
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| | Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service | |
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| | in former times / the olden days | |
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| | (military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain | |
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| | sometimes / at times | |
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| | square (i.e. x times x) | |
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| | fortunes rise and fall; times change | |
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| | (idiom) moral standards are much lower now than in former times | |
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| | (idiom) the prevailing trend; the trend of the times; an inevitable direction | |
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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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| | imperial examinations (in former times) | |
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| | 9-11 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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| | stick-like implement inserted into the handles of a tripod cauldron in ancient times in order to lift the cauldron / commonly used in Korean names, transcribed as "hyun" | |
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| | number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number | |
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| | Global Times (weekly digest of international news from People's Daily 人民日報｜人民日报) | |
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| | classifier for times, round trips or rows / a time / a trip | HSK 6 |
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| | School of Mind / Neo-Confucian Idealistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Wang Yangming 王陽明｜王阳明) | |
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| | third / three times / (math.) degree three, cubic (equation) | |
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| | enclosure / pig pen / hunting ground exclusively kept for emperor or nobility (in former times) | |
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| | to think of danger in times of safety / to be vigilant in peacetime (idiom) | |
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| | decrepit and behind the times; old; useless / (humble) I; me (used by the elderly) | |
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| | according with the times / seasonal | |
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| | Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times | |
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| | night watchman (in former times) | |
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| | (since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial | |
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| | the world in chaos / troubled times / (in Buddhism) the mortal world | |
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| | a couple of times / to repeat the same / the same old trick / tricks of the trade | |
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| | at all times / at every moment | |
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| | to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason | |
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| | China Times (newspaper published in Taiwan) (abbr. for 中國時報｜中国时报) | |
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| | to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 11 am-1 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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| | unchanging since times immemorial (idiom) / unalterable / unvarying / monotonous | |
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| | from ancient times up to now / throughout history | |
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| | a guild / (in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild / the Japanese word for company | |
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| | ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times / foreigner / barbarian | |
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| | head ornament (in former times) / (literary) head / face / looks | |
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| | "fish" battle formation in ancient times: chariots in front, infantry behind / The Fish Enter the Trap (title of Ode 170 in the Shijing) | |
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| | (literary) ancient times / in olden days | |
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| | seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) | |
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| | how many times / several times / how many degrees (in terms of temperature or angle) / several degrees / to what degree; to what extent | |
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| | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮｜宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 | |
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| | consecutive defeats / to lose several times in a row | |
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| | in keeping with the current thinking / appropriate for the times (or for the occasion) | |
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| | fourth / four times / quartic | |
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| | lit. to respond to heaven and suit the times (idiom); to rule according to the will of heaven / the Divine Right of kings | |
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| | master of martial arts, in former times often employed by a landlord to teach fighting skills and guard the house / (fig.) sb who arrogantly and condescendingly lectures others | |
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| | (idiom) troubled times; eventful period | |
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| | to plunder the homes of the wealthy for food (in times of famine) / (of sb who has no income) to rely on others / to demand a "contribution" or "loan" from a business or wealthy individual | |
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| | lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei) | |
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| | several times | |
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| | banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣｜县 county / CL: 面 | |
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| | near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times) | |
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| | in ancient times / in olden days | |
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| | Epoch Times, US newspaper | |
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| | to provide relief during times of emergency and disaster (idiom) | |
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| | lit. a wise person reflecting a thousand times can still make a mistake (idiom); fig. nobody is infallible | |
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| | lit. in gambling, nine times out of ten you lose (idiom) / fig. gambling is a mug's game | |
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| | Capricorn (star sign) / northern people in classical times, a branch of the Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴 | |
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| | on call / always available / ready at all times | |
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| | the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times | |
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