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HSK
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  *的* | 的* | *的
of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs
HSK 1
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  *呢* | 呢* | *呢
particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?") / particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?") / particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?") / (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action / particle indicating strong affirmation
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
final; last; ultimate / finally; in the end
HSK 1
to dismiss students at the end of the school day
HSK 1
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 1
outcome; result; consequence / in the end; as a result / to kill; to dispatch
HSK 2
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  *头* | 头* | *头
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
the head of an institution whose name ends in ; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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  *吹* | 吹* | *吹
to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through
HSK 2
the end of the year / year-end
HSK 3
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  *指* | 指* | *指
finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end
HSK 3
termination / to finish / to end / to conclude / to close
HSK 3
from beginning to end / all along
HSK 3
finally / in the end / when all is said and done / after all / to the end / to the last
HSK 3
around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear
HSK 3
at last / in the end / finally / eventually
HSK 3
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  *者* | 者* | *者
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后 or to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this
HSK 3
the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards
HSK 3
end of the month
HSK 4
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  *底* | 底* | *底
bottom; base / background; foundation / copy (of a manuscript or receipt etc) kept as a record / (suffix) end of a year or month / (math.) radix; base (abbr. for 底數|底数)
HSK 4
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  *末* | 末* | *末
tip / end / final stage / latter part / inessential detail / powder / dust / opera role of old man
HSK 4
the end of a term or semester (in school)
HSK 4
on end / in a row / in succession
HSK 5
the end / end point / finishing line (in a race) / destination / terminus / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end
HSK 5
the curtain falls / lower the curtain / to come to an end (of a meeting)
HSK 5
incessantly / without end / more than / not limited to
HSK 5
by the end of the year / at the end of the year; shortly before New Year
HSK 5
to end; to close / (electricity) cut-off
HSK 6
for this reason / with regards to this / in this respect / in order to do this / to this end
HSK 6
to put an end to / to annihilate / to cause to perish / to perish / annihilation (in quantum field theory)
HSK 6
all year round / for years on end / average year
HSK 6
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  *尽* | 尽* | *尽
to use up / to exhaust / to end / to finish / to the utmost / exhausted / finished / to the limit (of sth) / all / entirely
HSK 6
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  *端* | 端* | *端
(bound form) tip; end; extremity / (bound form) aspect; facet / (bound form) upright; proper / to hold sth level with both hands; to carry / to eliminate; to wipe out
HSK 6
(used at the end of a letter to introduce a polite salutation)
HSK 6
won't do / unable to / (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
HSK 6
last day / end / final days / doomsday
HSK 7-9
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  *翘* | 翘* | *翘
to stick up / to rise on one end / to tilt
HSK 7-9
to put an end to
HSK 7-9
end; extremity; limit
HSK 7-9
the whole distance / from beginning to end
HSK 7-9
to finish / to end / to complete
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to persevere unremittingly; to keep going until the end
HSK 7-9
to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell / conclusion; end (of a story etc)
HSK 7-9
end of the year
HSK 7-9
end; conclusion / to come to an end; to terminate (sth)
HSK 7-9
later period / end stage / terminal
HSK 7-9
in the end / after all is said and done
HSK 7-9
whether or not (at the end of a phrase)
HSK 7-9
sharp pointed end / the tip / the cusp / tip-top / most advanced and sophisticated / highest peak / the best
HSK 7-9
in the end / finally / as a result
HSK 7-9
coda / epilogue / end
HSK 7-9
to settle a matter by leaving it unsettled / to end up with nothing definite
HSK 7-9
to be unable to find a solution / to be at wits' end
HSK 7-9
to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate
HSK 7-9
without end / incessantly / on and on
HSK 7-9
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  *逗* | 逗* | *逗
to tease (playfully); to entice / (coll.) to joke / (coll.) funny; amusing / to stay; to sojourn / brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 讀|读)
HSK 7-9
in the final analysis / in the end
HSK 7-9
backstage area / behind-the-scenes supporter / (computing) back-end / background
HSK 7-9
one head / a head full of sth / one end (of a stick) / one side / headlong / directly / rapidly / simultaneously
HSK 7-9
stage / proscenium / foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.) / front desk / reception desk / (computing) front-end / foreground
HSK 7-9
at one's wit's end / unable to find a way out
HSK 7-9
to run through / a connecting thread from beginning to end / to link
HSK 7-9
lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)
end of the month
to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard / to study diligently / to burn the candle at both ends
Quchi acupoint LI11, at the lateral end of the elbow crease
scattered and fragmentary / scraps / odds and ends
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  *錔* | 錔* | *錔
to encase the end with metal
limit / boundary / end
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
(of holidays) to come to an end / end of a vacation
even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)
(literary) to eliminate / to put an end to
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  *没* | 没* | *没
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate
dead end / blind alley
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  *委* | 委* | *委
to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly
both ends (of a stick etc) / two extremes
money settlement (fine or payment to end a legal dispute)
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  *殷* | 殷* | *殷
surname Yin / dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟 in present-day Henan
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
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  *终* | 终* | *终
end / finish
if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)
reign name (196-219) at the end of the Han dynasty
spare parts / odds and ends
cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
end; tip; extremity
end / terminal
either end of a bridge / a bridgehead
person in charge of a place that ends in 園|园, such as a vineyard 葡萄園|葡萄园, zoo 動物園|动物园, cemetery 陵園|陵园 etc
the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable)
high-end
front / front end / forward part of sth
the curtain drops / the end of the show
approaching one's end / with one foot in the grave
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  *央* | 央* | *央
center / end / to beg / to plead
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  *熄* | 熄* | *熄
to extinguish / to put out (fire) / to quench / to stop burning / to go out (of fire, lamp etc) / to come to an end / to wither away / to die out / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
the ends of the earth / separated worlds apart
(idiom) dead end / road to ruin

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