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| | word / statement; speech; lyrics / a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 (CL: 首) | HSK 2 |
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| | word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression | HSK 2 |
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| | new word (in textbook) / word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied / CL: 組｜组, 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word | HSK 4 |
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| | song lyric / lyrics | HSK 6 |
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| | wording / way of expressing something / turn of phrase / diction | |
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| | basic word | |
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| | uncountable noun (in grammar of European languages) | |
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| | coordinative compound word | |
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| | (linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category | |
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| | usage (of a term) / wording / phrasing | |
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| | (linguistics) auxiliary word; function word; particle | |
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| | Hanyu Da Cidian, the largest Chinese dictionary, with over 375,000 word entries, first published 1986-1994 | |
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| | meaning of a word | |
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| | verb | |
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| | to equivocate / to talk evasively (idiom) | |
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| | loanword / pretext | |
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| | (linguistics) noun / term (name for a concept) | |
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| | new expression; neologism | |
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| | compound word | |
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| | adverb | |
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| | technical term / proper noun | |
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| | synonym | |
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| | to compose a poem (to a given tune) | |
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| | (linguistics) content word | |
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| | (linguistics) function word | |
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| | hyperbole / exaggeration | |
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| | adjective | |
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| | conjunction | |
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| | keyword | |
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| | congratulatory message | |
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| | preposition | |
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| | to combine words / word formation | |
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| | to keep silent / to make no comment | |
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| | participle / word segmentation | |
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| | letters or words / words or phrase | |
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| | indefinite article (e.g. English a, an) | |
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| | derivative word | |
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| | calque | |
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| | to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats | |
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| | buzzword | |
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| | near-synonym | |
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| | tautology / superfluous words | |
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| | verb reduplication, used to soften tone or indicate a short action (e.g. 試一試｜试一试 or 看看) | |
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| | antonym | |
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| | to speak forcefully and with justice (idiom); to argue with the courage of one's convictions | |
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| | possessive pronoun | |
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| | words do not convey the meaning / poorly expressed / senseless / inarticulate | |
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| | onomatopoeia | |
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| | word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO 文, PM2.5, γ 射線｜γ 射线) | |
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| | (linguistics) stative verb | |
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| | (linguistics) analytic language | |
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| | intransitive verb | |
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| | personal pronoun | |
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| | each sticks to his own version (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf | |
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| | encyclopedic dictionary | |
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| | cognate; words having a common origin | |
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| | nominal classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word applying mainly to nouns | |
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| | abstract word | |
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| | all of one voice / unanimous | |
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| | (linguistics) single-morpheme word / simple word | |
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| | synonym | |
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| | classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word | |
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| | loanword | |
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| | to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom) | |
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| | short speech given in proposing a toast | |
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| | compound word, such as 玫瑰 or 咖啡, whose meaning is unrelated to the individual characters (Note: These characters are often not used independently in modern Chinese.) | |
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| | | HSK 4 |
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| | pronoun | |
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| | polyseme / polysemous word | |
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| | term of respect; polite expression | |
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| | lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom) / fig. unable to provide a convincing argument to support one's position / to not have a leg to stand on | |
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| | (linguistics) onomatopoeic word | |
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| | word order | |
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| | an excuse | |
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| | keyword | |
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| | verbal construction (clause) | |
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| | proper noun | |
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| | memorial speech / eulogy | |
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| | flattering words / inflated praise | |
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| | commentary (for a film etc); caption (for a photo etc) | |
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| | Reuter's Financial Glossary | |
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| | inscription / dedication | |
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| | compound word | |
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| | gerund | |
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| | countable noun (in grammar of European languages) | |
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| | libretto; lyrics | |
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| | an elegy / elegiac words | |
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| | article (in grammar) | |
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| | proper noun | |
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| | interjection (part of speech) / exclamation | |
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| | to make a speech / to make some remarks | |
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| | opening speech (at a conference) | |
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| | pronoun / synonym / byword | |
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| | to make a lot of excuses | |
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| | form of words (e.g. inflection, conjugation) / morphology (linguistics) | |
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| | prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics) | |
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| | (formal) to state one's views (esp. in court) / stale rhetoric; clichéd remarks | |
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