| | li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮｜镇 and neighborhood 鄰｜邻 levels | HSK 1 |
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| | gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | ancient / old / paleo- | HSK 3 |
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| | earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | ancient times | HSK 3 |
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| | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° | HSK 5 |
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| | second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105° | HSK 5 |
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| | clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30° | HSK 5 |
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| | ancient / old / age-old | HSK 5 |
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| | disembodied spirit; ghost; devil / (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc / sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭｜诡) / one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy | HSK 5 |
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| | not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | HSK 7-9 |
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| | third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl | HSK 7-9 |
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| | grave / tomb / CL: 座 / embankment / mound / ancient book | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Chinese national culture / studies of ancient Chinese civilization / the Imperial College (history) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc) / (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge / (bound form) to govern; to rule / (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ancestors; forebears / (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname Lu / Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國｜鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東｜山东 | |
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| | to tie up one's hair / (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair) | |
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| | a very high official in ancient China / juvenile delinquents | |
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| | Sumer (Šumer), one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East | |
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| | jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies / sundial / (ancient unit of volume) a tiny amount; a smidgen; a speck | |
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| | Homer, poet of ancient Greece | |
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| | ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character | |
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| | ancient place name / surname Hao | |
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| | ancient name of Baoji City 寶雞市｜宝鸡市, Shaanxi / Chencang district of Baoji City | |
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| | role (theater) / to compete / ancient three legged wine vessel / third note of pentatonic scale | |
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| | bronze mirror (used in ancient times) / to reflect / to mirror / sth that serves as a warning or a lesson / to examine / to scrutinize | |
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| | dried meat presented by pupils to their teacher at their first meeting (in ancient times) / dried; withered | |
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| | surname Wei / ancient Chinese state near present-day Chongqing / Taiwan pr. [Wei2] | |
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| | ancient unit of volume (half a 合, equivalent to 50ml) / ancient flute | |
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| | ancient type of drinking vessel | |
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| | ancient Central Asian city state, flourished in first millennium AD, in modern Aksu 阿克蘇地區｜阿克苏地区, Xinjiang | |
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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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| | (literary) (botany) (a species of linden whose timber was used to make coffins in ancient times) | |
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| | ancient country | |
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| | senior / of a senior generation / to honor / to respect / honorific / classifier for cannons and statues / ancient wine vessel | |
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| | son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- | |
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| | ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc) | |
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| | ancient text / antique books | |
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| | the Yuezhi, an ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty (also written 月氏) | |
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| | ancient tax in the form of bales of cloth | |
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| | dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] | |
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| | rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | |
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| | surname Wu / ancient place name | |
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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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| | East China Sea / East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) | |
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| | to annotate (ancient texts) / commentaries | |
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| | history / annals / title of an official historian in ancient China | |
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| | Pi County, established during the Qin dynasty after the conquest of the ancient Shu Kingdom, historically known for its cultural heritage, strategic location, and culinary contributions, administratively reorganized in 2016 as Pidu District 郫都區｜郫都区, a suburban district of Chengdu, Sichuan | |
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| | banner; pennant (in ancient China) | |
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| | Quebei, the ancient name of an irrigation reservoir constructed during the Spring and Autumn period in present-day Anhui, still operational and now known as 安豐塘｜安丰塘 | |
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| | ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo | |
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| | ancient capital | |
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| | non-Han tribes in the east and north of ancient China / barbarians | |
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| | surname Mi / name of an ancient state | |
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| | to extend / to state / to explain / 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey / ancient Chinese compass point: 240° | |
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| | then and now / ancient and modern | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | 5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon / ancient Chinese compass point: 120° | |
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| | proton (positively charged nuclear particle) / a prince sent to be held as a hostage in a neighbouring state in ancient China | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest) | |
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| | handed down from ancient times / family heirloom | |
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| | country with an ancient history | |
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| | (of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa | |
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| | bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times) / letter; correspondence; book; document | |
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| | Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王 and the elder brother of King Wu 周武王 who was the founder of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝 of ancient China | |
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| | Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc | |
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| | the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times | |
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| | ancient books or records | |
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| | large ancient bell | |
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| | Chang'an (ancient name of Xi'an 西安) capital of China during Tang Dynasty 唐朝 / now 長安區｜长安区, a district of Xi'an | |
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| | 11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the Dog / ancient Chinese compass point: 300° | |
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| | to critique / to voice concerns about / ancient form of acupuncture using sharp stones as needles | |
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| | 10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster / ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west) | |
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| | surname Gui / ancient place name | |
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| | Ephesus, city of ancient Greece | |
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| | second-hand book / old book / ancient book | |
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| | 7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south) | |
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| | surname Ji / ancient Chinese city state near present-day Beijing | |
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| | surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province | |
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| | ancient name for go (Chinese board game) | |
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| | unit of length used in ancient times, equal to 7 or 8 Chinese feet 尺 | |
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| | ancient castle | |
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| | a silver or gold ingot / mock ingot (burnt as offering in worship) / a name for ancient currency / a rare genius | |
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| | millet / God of cereals worshiped by ancient rulers / minister of agriculture | |
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| | one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "keum"), an ancient Korean writing system | |
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| | soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times) | |
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| | ancient city | |
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| | bamboo slips (used for writing on in ancient times) | |
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| | ancient place name | |
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| | ancient place name, in Anhui province | |
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| | division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands | |
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| | ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle / nobility | |
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| | ancient Indian name for China | |
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| | age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta | |
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| | to incline (one's torso); to bow / leather ball used in ancient times / (literary) to bring up; to rear / Taiwan pr. [ju2] | |
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| | to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon | |
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| | to guard / to protect / bodyguard (for officials in ancient times) | |
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