| | to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book) | HSK 1 |
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| | specific topic (addressed by a book, lecture, TV program etc) / article, report or program etc on a specific topic | HSK 3 |
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| | book / letter / document / CL: 本, 冊|册, 部 / to write | HSK 1 |
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| | scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll | HSK 4 |
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| | good-looking; nice-looking / (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good / in an embarrassing situation | HSK 1 |
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| | to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc) / to congeal; to coagulate / (literary) definitely | HSK 4 |
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| | book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: 本 / edition | HSK 1 |
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| | to read a book / to study / to attend school | HSK 1 |
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| | booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment | HSK 6 |
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| | 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 |
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| | to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文 / abbr. for 開本|开本, book format | HSK 1 |
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| | to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL: 部 | HSK 4 |
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| | to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book | HSK 4 |
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| | book / booklet / classifier for books | HSK 5 |
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| | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 / gossip / gossipy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to place an order / to book ahead | HSK 4 |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi | |
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| | (technical) manual / (book of) directions / synopsis (of a play or film) / specification (patent) / CL: 本 | HSK 6 |
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| | Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经 | |
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| | shift in the trend of events / turnaround / plot shift in a book / turn in the conversation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西 ethnic group | |
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| | fragment (of speech etc) / extract (from book etc) / episode (of story etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | book review / book notice | |
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| | treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | book (chiefly used to refer to a plurality of books or books in general) | |
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| | a poem / a composition in verse / fig. epic (compared with historical epic) / the biblical Book of Psalms | |
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| | a book / a volume | |
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| | Book of Exodus / Second Book of Moses | |
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| | Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC | |
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| | to lay down (a rule, a plan of action) / to draw up / booked out (i.e. already fully booked) | |
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| | special (or reserved) train (or bus etc) / limousine / private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app | |
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| | The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| | at a glance / (in book titles) overview | |
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| | to decrease; to lose / to damage; to harm / (coll.) to ridicule; to deride / (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism | |
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| | book cover / book jacket | |
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| | permanent / constant / fixed / usual / ordinary / rule (old) / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes ( ䷟) | |
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| | manuscript of a book | |
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| | to book a service for overnight use (karaoke room, internet café etc) / (euphemistic) to hire a companion or escort for the night | |
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| | audiobook / recording of a person reading the text of a book | |
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| | another name for Han Fei 韓非|韩非, Legalist philosopher (c. 280-233 BC) / Han Feizi, book of Legalist Philosophy authored by Han Fei 韓非|韩非 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | account book | |
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| | obscene book / pornography | |
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| | Book of Esther | |
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| | the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao" 道德經|道德经) | |
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| | to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记) | |
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| | best-seller / best-selling book / blockbuster | |
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| | to open a book / open-book (exam) | |
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| | pocket-sized / pocket (book etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | this text / article / the main body of a book | |
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| | The Book of Family Names, anonymous Song dynasty reading primer listing 438 surnames | |
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| | to proofread / to revise one or more editions of a text using an authoritative edition as a source book / to editorially revise a text | |
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| | to revise and enlarge (a book) / to augment a purchase order | |
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| | Wolverine, comic book superhero | |
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| | second-hand book / old book / ancient book | |
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| | grave / tomb / CL: 座 / embankment / mound / ancient book | HSK 7-9 |
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| | entire book; unabridged book | |
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| | The Rape of Nanking (1997 documentary book by Iris Chang 張純如|张纯如) | |
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| | to follow the rules / to do as instructed / to play by the book / to comply with a request | HSK 7-9 |
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| | physical book; printed book | |
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| | to make known / to show / to prove / to write / book / outstanding | |
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| | the four book depositories, namely: classics 經|经, history 史, philosophy 子, belles-lettres 集 | |
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| | divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 | |
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| | to crowd together; to pile up; to cluster / (book) collection; series | |
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| | memorandum / aide-memoire / memorandum book | |
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| | reference book | |
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| | The Book of Changes ("I Ching") | |
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| | Ecclesiastes (biblical book of sermons) | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | to pick up a pre-arranged item (e.g. package, document, ticket, reserved book) from a delivery point or collection location | |
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| | white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book | |
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| | reference book (such as dictionary, almanac, gazetteer etc) | |
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| | lit. opening a book is profitable (idiom); the benefits of education | |
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| | canonical text / treasury (i.e. book of treasured wisdom) | |
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| | notebook / book | |
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| | quotation (from a book or existing source) | |
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| | name of a book / reputation as calligrapher | |
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| | pornographic novel / dirty book | |
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| | Genesis (first book of the Bible) | |
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| | book number (esp. ISBN) | |
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| | Samson, biblical figure in the Book of Judges known for his strength and feats against the Philistines | |
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| | admonition / exhortation / dictum / the biblical Book of Proverbs | |
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| | a book on the art of war | |
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| | Book of Jeremiah | |
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| | treasured book | |
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| | (finance) price-to-book ratio | |
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| | page of a book | |
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| | Book of Numbers / Fourth Book of Moses | |
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| | Superman, comic book superhero | |
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| | address book / directory | |
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| | to study attentively (a book) / to delve into | |
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| | you can't judge a person by appearance (idiom) / you can't judge a book by its cover / often in combination 人不可貌相, 海水不可斗量 | |
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| | Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括, book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass | |
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| | holy book | |
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| | lit. always with a book in hand (idiom) / fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking | |
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| | (Tw) (publishing) belly band (paper sash around a book, outside the dust jacket) | |
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| | Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| | Book of Hosea | |
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| | printed book; printed copy | |
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| | Yan Ying (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States, also known as Yanzi 晏子 , hero of book 晏子春秋 | |
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