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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *更* | 更* | *更
more / even more / further / still / still more
HSK 2
more (than sth else) / even more
HSK 3
to replace (a worn-out tire etc) / to change (one's address etc)
HSK 5
to replace the old with new / to renew / to renovate / to upgrade / to update / to regenerate
HSK 5
to change / to alter / to modify
HSK 6
even more (so)
HSK 6
to alter
HSK 7-9
change room; dressing room; locker room / (euphemism) toilet
HSK 7-9
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
new edition / new version / update
to correct / to make a correction
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *更* | 更* | *更
to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
deep at night
resurrection / rebirth / reinvigorated / rejuvenated / a new lease of life
to take it up a notch / to bring it up a level
to rename
superior by a notch / a cut above / even better
Dickens (name) / Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
to change clothes / to go to the toilet (euphemism)
menopause / andropause
redbreast / robin
reform and renewal / generational change
(in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom)
watch tower / drum tower marking night watches
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
one watch (i.e. two-hour period during night)
Pleistocene (geological epoch from 2m years ago, covering the most recent ice ages)
Huygens (name) / Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), Dutch mathematician and astronomer
to keep watch during the night
to change / to substitute
lit. to restring one's bow / to reform and start over again
to alternate / to change
deep night
(idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night
to take over (from one another) / to alternate / to replace / to relay
substitution / replacing former general / change of leader
fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)
night watchman (in former times)
soldier (serving alternate watch)
to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)
international date line
to stay up through the night (idiom)
in the dead of night (idiom)
to make a new start / to regenerate
too many to count / very many / innumerable
(idiom) young and inexperienced; wet behind the ears
alternately / by turns
to replace the old with new (idiom)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
even more
to moonlight
to stop updating (content)
dental transition (from milk teeth to adult teeth)
to be even better than / to be superior to
dynamic update (Internet)
lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better
urban development project
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old)
third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1]
second of the five night watch periods 21:00-23:00 (old)
(slang) (of a follower) to urge (a blogger etc) to post some fresh content (abbr. for 催促更新)
to patrol at night, marking the time by sounding clappers or gongs
to change / to replace / to alter
(Internet slang) to update one's blog
furthermore (idiom)
deep at night and all is quiet (idiom)
water clock used to mark night watches
high performance
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
I am who I am and not ashamed of it; to be proud of one's name and stand by one's actions


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