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HSK
middle-school student / high school student
HSK 1
doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
all one's life; throughout one's life
HSK 2
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:條|条)
HSK 3
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  *生* | 生* | *生
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽)
HSK 2
birthday / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
HSK 1
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
student / schoolchild
HSK 1
to arise; to come into being; to come about / to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
HSK 3
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
to exist / to survive
HSK 3
hygienic; sanitary / hygiene; sanitation
HSK 3
primary school student / schoolchild / CL: 個|个, / (fig.) beginner
HSK 1
to get angry; to be furious / vitality; liveliness
HSK 1
to be born
HSK 2
schoolgirl / female student / girl
HSK 1
to fall ill
HSK 1
(of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
HSK 3
business / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 3
to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration
HSK 6
to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being / to be born with; to be blessed with
HSK 5
bathroom / toilet / WC / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
to enroll new students / to get students
HSK 5
exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
HSK 2
teachers and students
HSK 6
to do business
HSK 7-9
university student; college student
HSK 1
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
new word (in textbook) / word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied / CL: 組|组, 個|个
HSK 2
to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child
HSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
HSK 3
top student; outstanding student; standout performer
graduate
HSK 4
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
to start to have doubts; to grow suspicious
graduate student / postgraduate student / research student
HSK 4
vitamin
HSK 6
to eat raw
(dated, except in Taiwan) trainee; apprentice; probationary employee / (entertainment) trainee performer undergoing systematic training prior to debut (esp. in idol groups)
organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
peanut / CL:
HSK 6
wild / undomesticated
HSK 6
molecular biology
a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
long life
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
World Health Organization (WHO)
(of energy, natural resources etc) renewable
every living being (Buddhism) / the mass of common people
senior student
birth rate
handsome but effeminate man / pretty boy
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
strange; unfamiliar
HSK 7-9
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
health official
menstrual leave (Tw)
eumetazoa / subkingdom of animals excluding sponges
gross national product (GNP)
microorganism
means of production
Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
associated gas (petrochemical engineering)
pampered and spoiled since childhood
student who engages in regular training for a sport / student who takes physical education as a subject
ecosphere
to commit suicide; to take one's own life
biomechanics
career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life
HSK 7-9
(Tw) life skills education; education in practical, emotional, social and moral aspects of daily living
physiology
HSK 7-9
biopolymers
domestic animal / brute / bastard
renewable energy source
(biology) autotroph
first half of one's life
original / primary / native / indigenous / proto- / stock (firmware)
sex life
Mesozoic (geological era 250–65 million years ago, covering the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous)
the middle generation (between senior and junior cohorts, esp. in a profession)
(mythology) to conceive or give birth by non-sexual or divine means / (physics) induced (magnetic field, current etc)
gross domestic product (GDP)
antibiotic
HSK 7-9
to be born
HSK 6
principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
ecological footprint
nature / disposition / innate / natural
HSK 7-9
ecology (the study of interactions between organisms and their environment) / ecological state (the condition or health of a natural environment) / (fig.) ecosystem (a complex network, e.g. in tech, business or media, as in 數字生態|数字生态 "digital ecosystem")
HSK 7-9
Happy birthday
Edison (name) / Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman
undergraduate student
biotechnology
Johnson & Johnson
exchange student
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless
student union

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