| | one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | HSK 1 |
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| | also; too; as well; (not ...) either / (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X) / (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊 | HSK 1 |
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| | lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里 | HSK 1 |
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| | of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs | HSK 1 |
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| | where? / somewhere / anywhere / wherever / nowhere (negative answer to question) / humble expression denying compliment / also written 哪裡|哪里 | HSK 1 |
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| | who / also pr. [shui2] | HSK 1 |
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| | outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense) / surface / exterior / external appearance | HSK 3 |
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| | very; quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element) | HSK 1 |
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| | below / under / next / the following / also pr. [xia4 mian5] | HSK 3 |
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| | to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders) | HSK 3 |
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| | to download / also pr. [xia4zai4] | HSK 4 |
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| | on top of / above-mentioned / also pr. [shang4 mian5] | HSK 3 |
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| | a moment / a while / in a moment / now...now... / also pr. [yi1 hui3 r5] | HSK 1 |
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| | inside / interior / also pr. [li3 mian5] | HSK 3 |
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| | not just; not limited to / (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...) | HSK 3 |
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| | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] | HSK 2 |
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| | to grasp (also fig.) / to seize / to hold / assurance / certainty / sure (of the outcome) | HSK 3 |
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| | same; equal; similar / similarly; also; too | HSK 2 |
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| | mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | benefit; advantage; merit / gain; profit / also pr. [hao3chu4] | HSK 2 |
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| | (not only ...) but also / moreover / in addition / furthermore | HSK 2 |
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| | to stand up; to get up / also pr. [qi3lai2] | HSK 1 |
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| | good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead | HSK 2 |
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| | (idiom) exactly alike; identical / also pr. [yi1mo2-yi1yang4] | HSK 6 |
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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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| | father / also pr. [fu4 qin5] / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) | HSK 4 |
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| | to know; to become aware of / also pr. [zhi1dao5] | HSK 1 |
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| | (once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway | HSK 2 |
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| | not only (... but also ...) | HSK 2 |
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| | and / furthermore / also / together with / (not) at all / simultaneously / to combine / to join / to merge | HSK 3 |
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| | ahead / in front / preceding / above / also pr. [qian2 mian5] | HSK 3 |
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| | early morning / CL: 個|个 / also pr. [zao3chen5] | HSK 2 |
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| | still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else | HSK 1 |
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| | pirated / illegal / see also 正版 | HSK 6 |
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| | also | HSK 7-9 |
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| | role; part (in a play or movie etc) / also pr. [jiao3se4] | HSK 4 |
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| | (bound form) to compare / (literary) to dispute / compared to / (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather / also pr. [jiao3] | HSK 3 |
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| | ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2] | HSK 2 |
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| | apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他, 誰也沒來|除了他, 谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語, 他也會法語|除了英语, 他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B") | HSK 3 |
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| | in a moment / later / also pr. [dai1 hui3 r5] or [dai1 hui5 r5] | HSK 6 |
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| | thoughtful / considerate / attentive / thorough / also pr. [zhou1 dao5] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | genuine / legal / see also 盜版|盗版 | HSK 5 |
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| | to collect / to compile / to converge / also written 彙集|汇集 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | reggae (loanword) / also written 雷鬼 | |
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| | to expose / to reveal / to lay bare / also pr. [pu4 lu4] | HSK 6 |
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| | not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | friction / rubbing / chafing / fig. disharmony / conflict / also written 磨擦 | HSK 5 |
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| | variant of 花 / flower / blossom / also pr. [wei3] | HSK 1 |
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| | to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily / to bustle about / to hopscotch / also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | delighted / to one's heart's content / straightforward / also pr. [tong4 kuai5] | HSK 4 |
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| | light bulb / see also 電燈泡|电灯泡 / third-wheel or unwanted third party spoiling a couple's date (slang) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | down to / up to / to such an extent as to ... / also written 以至於|以至于 | |
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| | development cycle / development period / also written 開發週期|开发周期 | |
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| | lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit | |
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| | a moment / a while / in a moment / also pr. [yi1 hui3] | |
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| | ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character | |
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| | shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦 | |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子 | |
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| | (of a seed) to germinate / (of a plant) to sprout; to bud / sprout; bud / (also used figuratively) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle / Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras / also pr. [Xiao3 cheng2] | |
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| | look / style / appearance / approximation / about / CL: 個|个 / also pr. [mo2 yang4] | HSK 5 |
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| | to hug / to cherish / within the bosom (of the family) / to embrace (also fig. an ideal, aspiration etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at that time (in the past or the future) / also pr. [nei4 hui4 r5] | HSK 2 |
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| | lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道, 雞犬升天|一人得道, 鸡犬升天) | |
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| | (bound form) small bird / sparrow / also pr. [qiao3] | |
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| | terrier / also pr. [geng3] | |
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| | to upload / also pr. [shang4zai4] | |
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| | to tuck into one's bosom / also written 揣在懷裡|揣在怀里 | |
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| | white hair (of animals) / see also 白髮|白发 | |
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| | to seek / to strive for / to obtain / see also 牟取 | |
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| | backscratcher (made from bamboo etc) / (may also refer to other products that are of benefit to old people, such as padded cloth shoes, mobility tricycle etc) | |
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| | Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒密 | |
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| | stiff / inflexible / also pr. [ai2 ban3] | |
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| | Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands) | |
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| | suddenly and completely (realize, change one's strategy etc) / also written 幡然 | |
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| | Former Han dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 西漢|西汉, Western Han dynasty | |
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| | Xia Huanggong also known as Huang Shigong 黃石公|黄石公 (dates of birth and death uncertain), Daoist hermit of the Qin Dynasty 秦代 and purported author of “Three Strategies of Huang Shigong” 黃石公三略|黄石公三略, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | gelada (Theropithecus gelada), Ethiopian herbivorous monkey similar to baboon / also written 吉爾達|吉尔达 | |
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| | Scout (youth organization) / see also 童子軍|童子军 | |
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| | reductio ad absurdum / arguing by contradiction / also called 反證法|反证法 | |
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| | Cantonese sponge cake also known as mara cake | |
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| | to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) / also written 磕頭|磕头 | |
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| | to fade / to discolor / also pr. [luo4 se4] | |
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| | cleaning rag / also pr. [mo3 bu4] | |
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| | oh; ah (used to indicate realization) / also pr. [ou4] | |
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| | (slang) to ship a couple (i.e. to strongly desire that a pair of fictional characters become a couple) / also pr. [ke4 C P] | |
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| | to withdraw / to pull back / to contract / to shrink / to reduce / abbreviation / also pr. [su4] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Chihkan Tower (formerly Fort Provintia) in Tainan, Taiwan (also written 赤崁樓|赤崁楼) | |
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| | definite / conclusive / undeniable / authentic / also pr. [que4 zuo4] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (slang) to roast; to ridicule / also pr. [tu3 cao2] | |
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| | "Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, also known as "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey" | |
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| | Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔 / also translated 動物農場|动物农场 | |
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| | part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable, e.g. the root, or a garment, e.g. the sleeve, etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | social group / subculture / family / clan / see also 族 | |
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