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  *新* | 新* | *新
new / newly / meso- (chemistry)
HSK 1
New Year / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
bridegroom; groom
HSK 4
to bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails / innovation
HSK 3
fresh (experience, food etc) / freshness / novel / uncommon
HSK 4
new type; new kind
HSK 4
all new; completely new
HSK 6
(of markets, industries, infectious diseases etc) rising / emerging / in the ascendant
HSK 6
again; once more; re-
HSK 2
to replace the old with new / to renew / to renovate / to upgrade / to update / to regenerate
HSK 5
bride
HSK 4
Xinzhu or Hsinchu city in northern Taiwan, noted for high tech industries / Xinzhu or Hsinchu county in northwest Taiwan
brand new
HSK 7-9
news conference
new style; latest type
HSK 7-9
Protestant / adherent of Protestantism
latest / newest
journalist
to renovate / to refurbish / to refresh (computer window) / to write a new page (in history) / to break (a record)
HSK 7-9
(political) reform / revitalization / modernization
Niigata, a city and prefecture in Japan
modern / fashionable
HSK 7-9
Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
rising star; new talent
new generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒|新型冠状病毒) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent / newlywed, esp. new bride / newlywed couple; bride and groom / (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens
HSK 6
new style / latest fashion / new model
HSK 7-9
Sina, Chinese web portal and online media company
novel coronavirus (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒|新型冠状病毒) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
novel; new; exotic
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *新* | 新* | *新
abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆 / abbr. for Singapore 新加坡 / surname Xin
Singapore
Xinmin Evening News
to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate
lit. new bud / fig. new and original
HSK 7-9
metabolism (biology) / the new replaces the old (idiom)
HSK 7-9
A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆
COVID-19, the coronavirus disease identified in 2019
to innovate / innovation
HSK 6
new (army) recruit
hipster
(idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married
China News Service (CNS), a state-owned news agency in China, focused primarily on providing news to Chinese communities outside mainland China
new generation
fresh and clean
HSK 7-9
new knowledge / new friend
reform and renewal / generational change
newsgroup
Xinhua News Network
to add (sth new) / newly added; additional
Meiji Restoration (Japan, 1868)
freedom of the press
Australasian realm
Protestantism
a pleasant change / a breath of fresh air / refreshing
HSK 7-9
neoclassical
new expression; neologism
ChinaNews (China News Service)
Neolithic Era
to remain fresh in one's memory (idiom)
HSK 7-9
high tech / high technology
HSK 7-9
to restart; to reboot
new housing development
New Age (movement)
new era; new epoch
Xinhua News Agency, official press agency of the People's Republic of China, founded in 1931
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future
news agency
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
spokesman
as fresh and clean as nature (idiom)
Beijing news (newspaper)
new faction
Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years)
new generation
Nearctic realm
to bring in the new (idiom); new directions, different creation
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, capital Ürümqi 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市 (abbr. to )
Xinbei district of Changzhou city 常州市, Jiangsu / Hsinpei or New Taipei city in north Taiwan
new ideas
newsreader / anchor
National University of Singapore
New South Wales (Australian state)
the beginning of Spring / the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
new / newborn / emerging / nascent / rebirth / regeneration / new life / new student
HSK 7-9
(of an official) to take up a new post / (literary) to celebrate the New Year
bride
new idea
reunion after an absence is sweeter than being newlyweds (idiom) / absence makes the heart grow fonder

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