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  *上* | 上* | *上
(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above
HSK 1
to go to class / to attend class / to go to teach a class
HSK 1
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  *等* | 等* | *等
to wait for; to await / by the time; when; till / and so on; etc.; et al. / (bound form) class; rank; grade / (bound form) equal to; same as / (used to end an enumeration) / (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
HSK 1
to work a temporary or casual job / (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
HSK 2
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  *汇* | 汇* | *汇
class / collection
HSK 4
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  *门* | 门* | *门
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
HSK 1
classroom (CL:間|间); class session
HSK 2
to finish class / to get out of class / (fig.) (esp. of a sports coach) to be dismissed / to be fired
HSK 1
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  *流* | 流* | *流
to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade
HSK 2
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  *修* | 修* | *修
to decorate / to embellish / to repair / to build / to write / to cultivate / to study / to take (a class)
HSK 3
kind / genus / type / category / variety / species / sort / class
HSK 4
class (group of students) / grade (in school)
HSK 3
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  *类* | 类* | *类
kind; type; class; category / (classifier) kind; type / (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
HSK 3
class hour / period
HSK 4
training class
HSK 4
nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes)
HSK 5
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  *班* | 班* | *班
team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
HSK 1
(soccer slang) spectacular, world-class goal; wonder goal (originally Cantonese: is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bo1])
world-class
HSK 7-9
early-morning self-study session (before regular classes); to attend such a session
to give a lecture; to teach a class
HSK 6
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  *课* | 课* | *课
subject / course / CL: 門|门 / class / lesson / CL: , 節|节 / to levy / tax / form of divination
HSK 1
to make up missed lesson / to reschedule a class
HSK 6
strikebreaker; scab; traitor to the working class
class monitor / squad leader / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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  *辈* | 辈* | *辈
lifetime / generation / group of people / class / classifier for generations / (literary) classifier for people
HSK 5
first class / category A
grade / class / quality / level
HSK 7-9
high-rise / high level; high class
HSK 6
middle class / bourgeois
grade 4 / fourth class / category D
the whole class
to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin
HSK 7-9
grade 3 / third class / category C
to compete to answer questions (in class)
business class (travel class on airplanes, trains etc)
same type / category 1 (i.e. class A)
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  *堂* | 堂* | *堂
(main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL: 間|间 / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture
HSK 7-9
to group students into classes / to divide people (staff members etc) into groups
upper class
HSK 7-9
(PRC) (D- or C-class) high-speed train / power car / multiple-unit train (abbr. for 動車組|动车组)
personality traits; temperament; disposition / aura; air; feel; vibe / refinement; sophistication; class
HSK 7-9
(PRC) Double Reduction Policy, announced in 2021, aiming to ease pressure on K-12 students by reducing homework and banning for-profit after-school academic classes
class A protected animal
working class
spare-time education / evening classes
1st class cabin
tai-pan / business executive / foreign business manager / top class of kindergarten or school grade
upper class / high society
first class / prime / main
business class (travel class on airplanes, trains etc)
first-class / best quality / also pr. [shang4 sheng4]
middle class
exploiting class (in Marxist theory)
social class
HSK 7-9
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4–5 year olds)
lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene
official class / intellectual class (idiom)
to play truant / to cut classes
HSK 7-9
(sports) heavyweight class / (fig.) important; major; prominent; influential
HSK 7-9
spin class; indoor cycling class (a type of group fitness class) / exercise bike used in such a class; spin bike
to stop classes / to close (of school)
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音|齿音, 唇音
to attend a class / to go to a lecture
class Amphibia / amphibians
to assign (to a class) / to classify as / to include
to be in the same class / to be in the same squad / classmate
the enemy of the people / the class enemy (Marxism)
social rank; class; caste
(social) class / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
second-class citizen
grade 2 / second class / category B
to have class; classy
course syllabus / class curriculum
certified goods / quality product / normal product / A-class goods
teacher in charge of a class
grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
cram class / cram school / evening classes
(law) class action
online classes
second-class; second-rate
equal to / having the same social class or status
HSK 7-9
to give classes / to work as a teacher
class
clue / thread (of a story) / mate / first class
main type / main class / main category
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
(old) cabin class; second class (on a passenger ship)
person in charge of a (section or department) / head / chief / director / (in a class in a school) student responsible for a specific duty, e.g. 風紀股長|风纪股长 discipline monitor
to skip class
sand table (military) / 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc) / sand tray (on which to write characters)
the landlord class
to sign up for a class
to drag out a lesson / to insist on extending class after the bell
(historical) middle peasant (PRC rural class category referring to a farmer with moderate land and resources who relies mainly on family labor)
family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
class meeting (in schools)
tutorial class / remedial class / preparatory course
Double First-Class University Plan, Chinese government project to develop both a group of Chinese universities and a group of subject disciplines to be world-class by 2050, implemented from 2017
second class cabin

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