| | 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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| | ancient times | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | Chinese national culture / studies of ancient Chinese civilization / the Imperial College (history) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | grave / tomb / CL: 座 / embankment / mound / ancient book | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | name of an ancient barbarian country, possibly Taiwan | |
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| | ancient place name | |
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| | surname Wei / ancient Chinese state near present-day Chongqing / Taiwan pr. [Wei2] | |
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| | to tattoo the face / face tattoo / to brand (ancient punishment) | |
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| | an ancient type of clothing | |
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| | used in the title of an ancient song, 囉嗊曲｜啰唝曲 | |
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| | then and now / ancient and modern | |
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| | following the ways of old / in imitation of ancient style | |
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| | (literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message | |
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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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| | Tangut branch of the Qiang 羌 ethnic group / ancient ethnic group who made up the Xixia dynasty 西夏 1038-1227 | |
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| | ancient Greece | |
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| | to guard / to protect / bodyguard (for officials in ancient times) | |
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| | former name of Fenghuang Ancient Town 鳳凰古城｜凤凰古城 in Hunan | |
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| | Media (ancient Middle east region) | |
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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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| | history / annals / title of an official historian in ancient China | |
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| | (in ancient times) sacrificial animal (cow, sheep or pig) | |
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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 country | |
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| | marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位 / nobleman; high official | |
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| | Wednesday (used in ancient Chinese astronomy) | |
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| | to plow / (ancient place name) | |
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| | Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, the two great beauties of ancient China | |
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| | former capital / ancient capital | |
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| | surname Chi / name of an ancient city | |
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| | ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs | |
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| | ancient capital | |
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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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| | 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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| | customs house (in ancient times) | |
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| | ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks) | |
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| | ornamental thumb ring (originally a ring, often made from jade, worn by archers in ancient times to protect the right thumb when drawing a bowstring) | |
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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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| | ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month | |
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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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| | Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China | |
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| | Achaemenid Dynasty, (559–330 BC), ancient Iranian dynasty whose kings ruled the Achaemenid Empire | |
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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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| | ancient name of Baoji City 寶雞市｜宝鸡市, Shaanxi / Chencang district of Baoji City | |
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| | ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times / foreigner / barbarian | |
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| | ancient place name | |
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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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| | bamboo slips (used for writing on in ancient times) | |
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| | ancient name of a river 洭河 in present-day Guangdong / (used in ancient place names) | |
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| | (bound form) a kind of headscarf worn by men in ancient China (variant of 幞) / variant of 袱 / Taiwan pr. [pu2] | |
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| | ancient city | |
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| | Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher | |
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| | dagger / ladle / ancient type of spoon | |
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| | Longquan Sword, legendary ancient Chinese sword of extraordinary craftsmanship | |
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| | banner; pennant (in ancient China) | |
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| | ancient official title | |
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| | 6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake / ancient Chinese compass point: 150° | |
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| | (idiom) "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants | |
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| | 4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音, corresponding to sol | |
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| | (literary) a one-foot-long piece of white silk, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message | |
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| | ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle / nobility | |
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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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| | 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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| | modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character | |
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| | Sima Rangju (c. 800 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), military strategist of the Qi State 齊國｜齐国 and author of “Methods of Sima” 司馬法｜司马法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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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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| | ancient tax in the form of bales of cloth | |
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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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| | ancient city name / happy | |
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| | surname Tan / name of an ancient city | |
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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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| | (ancient Chinese astronomy) Zhuque, the Vermilion Bird (the southern quadrant of the sky) / (Daoism) the guardian deity of the south | |
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| | modes of ancient Chinese music | |
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| | bamboo tazza used in ancient times to hold dry food for sacrifices or at banquets | |
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| | jade tube with round hole and rectangular sides, used ceremonially in ancient times | |
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| | surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province | |
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| | throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present) | |
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| | to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon | |
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| | Bamboo Annals, early chronicle of Chinese ancient history, written c. 300 BC | |
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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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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest) | |
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| | ancient Indian name for China | |
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| | doctor (Chinese medicine) / ancient official title / companions (respectful) | |
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| | artistry / talent / skill / (in ancient times) female entertainer | |
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| | antiquity / ancient times | |
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