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a benefactor / a person who has significantly helped sb else
HSK 6
to be grateful
HSK 7-9
to bestow (favors, charity etc)
HSK 7-9
gratitude and grudges / resentment / grudges / grievances
HSK 7-9
kindness / affection / grace / favor
HSK 7-9
favor / grace
HSK 7-9
(greatly respected) teacher
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *恩* | 恩* | *恩
favor / grace / kindness
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
feelings of gratitude and loyalty
Kahn
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), Los Angeles Lakers NBA star
(name) Ryan
Brian (name)
Bern or Berne, capital of Switzerland (Tw)
favor / grace
to thank sb for favor (esp. emperor or superior official)
loving affection (in a couple) / conjugal love
to pay a debt of gratitude / to repay a kindness
special favor from a ruler / Emperor's generosity towards a favorite
benevolence / favor
bestowed kindness
Thanksgiving Day
benefactor
Lucerne, Switzerland
to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend / to kick a benefactor in the teeth
Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990
to receive favor
to give a favor (used of Christian God)
to receive favor
Ron (name)
Thun, Switzerland
Engel (name) / Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician
debt of gratitude coupled with duty to avenge
Browne (person name)
Pitcairn Islands
grateful and seeking to repay the kindness (idiom)
Sean, Shaun or Shawn (name)
harsh and merciless (idiom)
Gideon (name, from Judges 6:11 onward) / also written 基甸
to extend kindness
(name) Keynes / John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), influential British economist / Cairns, city in Queensland, Australia
Gene (name)
to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom)
Enshi prefecture-level city in Hubei, capital of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州
ungrateful
Xuan'en County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
Orion (NASA spacecraft)
Cohen (name)
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), socialist philosopher and one of the founder of Marxism
to split up / to break all ties
to be ungrateful
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
to confer a favor on sb / to confer a benefit
Enschede, city in the Netherlands
Stern (name)
(name) Kenyon; Canyon
Jaén, Spain
Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
imperial kindness / benevolence from the emperor
deeply grateful
your favor amounts to being given a new lease on life (idiom)
lit. the kindness of recognizing sb's worth and employing him (idiom) / patronage / protection
approved by His (or Her) Majesty / permission graciously granted (from highly authoritative position) / to graciously permit / to condescend to allow
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
Xuan'en County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
TNT (trinitrotoluene) (loanword)
to disobey one's benefactor / to violate debts of gratitude / to repay good with evil
kind patronage
(Dirk) Kempthorne (US Senator from Idaho)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *㤙* | 㤙* | *㤙
variant of
Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
Rennes
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
Charismatic Christianity
salvation
Bournemouth, UK
rich favor
Ursula von der Leyen (1958-), German politician, president of the European Commission from 2019
to make a public display of affection
University of Bonn
Saving Private Ryan (1998 movie)
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
(maxim) a mere "thank you" is an insufficient response to a huge favor / (expression of gratitude) words cannot express my appreciation for what you have done
Amiens (French town)
Dunkin' Donuts
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省
Burns (name) / Nicholas Burns (1956-), US ambassador to China 2022-
Daci'en Buddhist temple in Xi'an
Kongsvinger (city in Hedemark, Norway)
(coll.) (loanword) VPN
pension granted as a favor
to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)
Enping, county-level city in Jiangmen 江門市|江门市, Guangdong
Enshi county in southwest Hubei

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