| | to reach; to arrive / to leave for; to go to / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) / considerate; thoughtful; thorough | HSK 1 |
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| | to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit | HSK 2 |
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| | to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet | HSK 2 |
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| | road; path (CL: 條｜条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL: 把 / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs | HSK 3 |
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| | Taoism / Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs) | HSK 6 |
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| | profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism) / mysterious principles | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to steal / to rob / to plunder / thief / bandit / robber | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism) / to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft | |
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| | surname Dao | |
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| | to transmit / to lead / to guide / to conduct / to direct | |
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| | (Buddhism, Daoism) to deliver all sentient beings from suffering / (Tw) a ritual of making offerings, esp. to wandering spirits rather than gods or ancestors (abbr. for 中元普渡) | |
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| | to practice Daoism | |
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| | (ancient Chinese astronomy) Zhuque, the Vermilion Bird (the southern quadrant of the sky) / (Daoism) the guardian deity of the south | |
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| | to pound / to beat / to hull / to attack / to disturb / to stir | |
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| | Buddha's teaching / Buddhist monk's apparel, staff etc / (Daoism) magic weapon / talisman / fig. specially effective device / magic wand | |
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| | paddy / rice (Oryza sativa) | |
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| | same as 引導｜引导 / Dao Yin, Daoist exercises involving breathing, stretching and self-massage | |
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| | Laozi and Zhuangzi (or Lao-tze and Chuang-tze), the founders of Daoism | |
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| | to mourn / to lament | |
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| | Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky | |
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| | garrulous | |
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| | (martial arts) wind-and-fire wheel, weapon used in hand-to-hand fighting / (Daoism) a magical pair of wheels on which one can stand to ride at great speed, used by Nezha 哪吒 / (fig.) never-ending treadmill | |
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| | column / cylinder | |
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| | in Daoism, astral wind on which immortals may ride / strong wind | |
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| | canopy | |
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| | (Daoism) a spirit medium, often a young person, believed to be possessed by a deity during rituals, acting as an intermediary for communication between the spirit world and humans | |
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| | seven mortal forms in Daoism, representing carnal life and desires / contrasted with 三魂 three immortal souls | |
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| | Dao county in Yongzhou 永州, Hunan | |
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| | the Moon (esp. in Daoism) | |
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| | Huangting Jing, one of the primary scriptures of Daoism | |
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| | Confucian study of ethics / study of Daoism / school for Daoism in Tang and Song times / Daoist magic / another name for 理學｜理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism | |
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| | Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-2024), Chinese American physicist, Columbia University, 1957 Nobel laureate | |
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| | Kangxi radical 18 ( 刀) as a vertical side element, referred to as 立刀旁 or 側刀旁｜侧刀旁 | |
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| | kayak | |
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| | big banner / feather banner or fan | |
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| | to pray / prayer | |
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| | grieved | |
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| | various sages / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子｜孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子｜韩非子, and numerous others | |
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| | feather banner or fan | |
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| | mystery within a mystery / the mysteries of the Dao according to Laozi 老子 | |
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| | to tread on / to trample / to stamp / to fulfill / Taiwan pr. [dao4] | |
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| | cover over / to envelope | |
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| | the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.) | |
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| | three immortal souls and seven mortal forms in Daoism, contrasting the spiritual and carnal side of man | |
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| | stir / to pound | |
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| | Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet | |
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| | levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion | |
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| | deuterium 2H / heavy hydrogen, isotope of hydrogen having 1 neutron in its nucleus, so atomic weight 2 | |
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| | Coilia ectenes | |
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| | (coll.) to reel in (string, yarn etc) by pulling hand over hand or by coiling / to step along / to look into / to pursue (a matter) | |
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| | Daoyuan (Sanctuary of the Dao) | |
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| | mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom); learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as the seas / ars longa, vita brevis | |
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| | variant of 島｜岛, island / used as second component of Japanese names with phonetic value -shima or -jima | |
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| | prayer / pray / supplication | |
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| | the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao" 道德經｜道德经) | |
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| | (Daoism) Qi; vital force; life force (variant of 氣｜气) | |
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| | variant of 島｜岛, island / used in Japanese names with reading -shima or -jima | |
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| | Wang Dao (276-339), powerful official of Jin dynasty and brother of general Wang Dun 王敦, regent of Jin from 325 | |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經｜道德经 by Laozi | |
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| | the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism) | |
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| | to fly upwards / (fig.) to rise; to increase / (Daoism) to ascend to heaven; to achieve immortality | |
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| | progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經｜道德经, Chpt. 41) | |
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| | Star God of Rank and Affluence (Daoism) | |
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| | a Daoist / a follower of Daoism | |
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| | three immortal souls in Daoism, representing spirit and intellect | |
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| | (slang, coined c. 2017, contrasted with 佛系) Dao-type, a type of person who has traits associated with a Daoist approach to life, such as being active, optimistic, earthy and forthright | |
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| | the Three Doctrines (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) | |
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| | to achieve the Dao / to become an immortal | |
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| | Wang Dun (266-324), powerful general of Jin dynasty and brother of civil official Wang Dao 王導｜王导, subsequently rebellious warlord 322-324 | |
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| | ritual (Daoism) / scientific instrument (abbr. for 科學儀器｜科学仪器) | |
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| | various sages and ten schools of thought / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子｜孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子｜韩非子, and numerous others | |
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| | the Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism | |
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| | (Daoism) to die | |
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