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  *次* | 次* | *次
next in sequence / second / the second (day, time etc) / secondary / vice- / sub- / infra- / inferior quality / substandard / order / sequence / hypo- (chemistry) / classifier for enumerated events: time
HSK 1
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  *词* | 词* | *词
word / statement; speech; lyrics / a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 (CL:)
HSK 2
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  *刺* | 刺* | *刺
thorn / sting / thrust / to prick / to pierce / to stab / to assassinate / to murder
HSK 4
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  *此* | 此* | *此
this; these
HSK 4
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  *词* | 词* | *词
old variant of 詞|词
HSK 2
Song Ci (1186–1249), author of "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" 洗冤集錄|洗冤集录 (1247), said to be the world's first forensic science text
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  *赐* | 赐* | *赐
(bound form) to confer; to bestow; to grant / (literary) gift; favor / Taiwan pr. [si4]
HSK 7-9
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  *糍* | 糍* | *糍
used in 糍粑 and 糯米糍
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  *兹* | 兹* | *兹
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  *刺* | 刺* | *刺
(onom.) whoosh
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  *差* | 差* | *差
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  *瓷* | 瓷* | *瓷
chinaware / porcelain / china
HSK 7-9
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  *磁* | 磁* | *磁
magnetic / magnetism / porcelain
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  *伺* | 伺* | *伺
used in 伺候
curie (Ci) (loanword)
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  *慈* | 慈* | *慈
compassionate / gentle / merciful / kind / humane
Empress Dowager Ci'an (1837-1881) of Qing
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  *茈* | 茈* | *茈
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  *雌* | 雌* | *雌
female / Taiwan pr. [ci1]
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  *茨* | 茨* | *茨
Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris) / to thatch (a roof)
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  *阕* | 阕* | *阕
(literary) to end; to stop / one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞|词 / classifier for songs or ci poems
Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times
"Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈, said to be the world's first forensic science text
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *祠* | 祠* | *祠
shrine / to offer a sacrifice
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  *骴* | 骴* | *骴
a putrid carcass
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  *偨* | 偨* | *偨
uneven
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  *跐* | 跐* | *跐
to trample / to step / to walk on the ball of the foot
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  *佌* | 佌* | *佌
petty / wretched
Zi Gong or Duanmu Ci 端木賜|端木赐 (520 BC-), disciple of Confucius
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  *疵* | 疵* | *疵
blemish / flaw / defect
(a kind of waterbird)
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  *莿* | 莿* | *莿
Urtica thunbergiana
Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜|白香词谱
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  *玼* | 玼* | *玼
clear (as in a gem)
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  *蛓* | 蛓* | *蛓
(literary) caterpillar
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  *呲* | 呲* | *呲
(coll.) to scold / to rebuke
Ci County or Cixian, a county in Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市, Hebei
An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后, executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后
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  *朿* | 朿* | *朿
stab
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  *絘* | 絘* | *絘
ancient tax in the form of bales of cloth
Duanmu Ci (520 BC-446 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Zi Gong 子貢|子贡
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *糍* | 糍* | *糍
variant of
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  *辞* | 辞* | *辞
old variant of 辭|辞
HSK 7-9
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  *辞* | 辞* | *辞
to resign / to dismiss / to decline / (literary) to take leave / (archaic poetic genre) ballad / variant of 詞|词
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *佽* | 佽* | *佽
surname Ci
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *佽* | 佽* | *佽
nimble / to help
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  *泚* | 泚* | *泚
clear / bright and brilliant
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刾* | 刾* | *刾
old variant of
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  *鹚* | 鹚* | *鹚
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  *鹚* | 鹚* | *鹚
variant of 鶿|鹚


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