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HSK
to remember / to bear in mind / to learn by heart
HSK 1
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  *坐* | 坐* | *坐
to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of
HSK 1
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  *带* | 带* | *带
band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL: 條|条 / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise
HSK 2
to feel unwell / to suffer pain / to be difficult to bear
HSK 2
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  *胜* | 胜* | *胜
victory / success / to beat / to defeat / to surpass / victorious / superior to / to get the better of / better than / surpassing / superb (of vista) / beautiful (scenery) / wonderful (view) / (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear / equal to (a task)
HSK 3
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  *受* | 受* | *受
to receive / to accept / to suffer / subjected to / to bear / to stand / pleasant / (passive marker) / (LGBT) bottom
HSK 3
to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for / conscientious
HSK 3
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  *戴* | 戴* | *戴
to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc) / to respect / to bear / to support
HSK 4
to bear / to support / to inherit
HSK 4
to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc) / burden
HSK 4
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  *熊* | 熊* | *熊
bear / (coll.) to scold; to rebuke / (coll.) weak; incapable
HSK 5
to bear; to endure
HSK 5
cannot help / unable to bear
HSK 5
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  *忍* | 忍* | *忍
to bear / to endure / to tolerate / to restrain oneself
HSK 5
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  *负* | 负* | *负
to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc)
HSK 6
to bear fruit
HSK 7-9
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  *标* | 标* | *标
mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units
HSK 7-9
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  *经* | 经* | *经
classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济
HSK 7-9
to give birth to; to bear / fertility
HSK 7-9
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  *耐* | 耐* | *耐
(bound form) to bear; to endure; to withstand
HSK 7-9
to bear the weight / to sustain
HSK 7-9
cannot bear / cannot stand / utterly / extremely
HSK 7-9
to shoulder / to bear / to undertake
HSK 7-9
to endure / to bear with / to exercise patience / to restrain oneself / patience / endurance
HSK 7-9
to shoulder (a burden) / to bear / to suffer (a disadvantage)
HSK 7-9
can't help it / can't bear it
HSK 7-9
a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried
HSK 7-9
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
ridgepole / ridgepole and beams / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state)
HSK 7-9
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  *承* | 承* | *承
to bear / to carry / to hold / to continue / to undertake / to take charge / owing to / due to / to receive
to bear patiently / to endure silently / to forbear
Great Bear / Big Dipper / Beidou or Peitou Town in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
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  *堪* | 堪* | *堪
(bound form) may; can / (bound form) to endure; to bear / (in 堪輿|堪舆) heaven (contrasted with earth 輿|舆)
(usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc)
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
lit. to blossom and bear fruit (idiom) / fig. to come to fruition; to yield favorable results
a heavy load and a long road / fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)
similar in expression and spirit / to bear a remarkable resemblance to
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  *搁* | 搁* | *搁
to bear; to stand; to endure / Taiwan pr. [ge1]
to support / to bear the weight of (a building)
bear market
to excuse; to forgive; to bear with; to be tolerant
to support / to bear (a weight) / to prop up
to bear the brunt
phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling)
black bear / coward
cannot bear to see / to hate / to dislike / to disapprove
lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom) / fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
to bear fruit
not fit to be seen by / should not be exposed to / can't bear to see
to puncture / to lay bear or expose (lies etc)
to bring up (children) / to raise / to bear
to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence / to swallow one's anger / to grin and bear it
(of pain or hardship) hard to bear
bear gall (used in TCM)
to bear / to carry on one's back / to shoulder
polar bear / white bear
black bear
grizzly bear
brown bear
to bear (responsibility) / to take on / to assume
(of a tree) to bear fruit
bear hardship with equanimity / regard wrongdoing with equanimity
to bear seeds (of plant)
can't stand it / to be unable to bear / to be unable to resist
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  *孳* | 孳* | *孳
industrious / produce / bear
(old) the family of the victim in a murder case / (Tw, HK) victim (of a crime, misfortune etc) / (Tw) (coll.) person who bears the burden while others benefit
can't bear to
cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame
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  *慉* | 慉* | *慉
to foster / to bear
to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it / to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc
bear paw (as food)
back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build
more than one can bear (idiom); at the end of one's patience / the last straw
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  *惌* | 惌* | *惌
to bear a grudge against
the name does not reflect the reality (idiom); more in name than in fact / Reality does not live up to the name. / Excellent theory, but the practice does not bear it out.
to forget and not bear recriminations (idiom); to let bygones be bygones / There is no point in crying over spilt milk.
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  *罴* | 罴* | *罴
brown bear
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
to bear fruit
to bear / to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy)
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  *嬎* | 嬎* | *嬎
(dialect) (of birds) to lay eggs / (archaic) to reproduce; to bear offspring
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
to be unable to bear or support
to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese) / (fig.) to bear responsibility
Ursa Major, the Great Bear (constellation)
to bear in mind
to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)
brown bear
unable to bear the pain (idiom)
(idiom) to bear shame and humiliation
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  *魋* | 魋* | *魋
Japanese brown bear
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  *柸* | 柸* | *柸
to hate / bear grudge
to bear witness; to testify / to serve as evidence
to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations
bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
to bear (fruit)
cannot bear to
to be able to bear / to be able to support

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