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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *聽* | 聽* | *聽
to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *家* | 家* | *家
home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
English (language)
HSK 2
English (language)
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *被* | 被* | *被
quilt / to cover (with) / (literary) to suffer (a misfortune) / used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游 to "go on a trip")
HSK 3
Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist / also written 簡·奧斯汀|简·奥斯汀
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and inventor of Boolean algebra
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *英* | 英* | *英
United Kingdom / British / England / English / abbr. for 英國|英国
(slang) to cheer sb on / to show one's support / ("call" is pronounced approximately like English "call")
Hawkins or Hawking / Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), English theoretical physicist
Sino-British / Chinese-English
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *易* | 易* | *易
easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *基* | 基* | *基
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
to crash (of a computer) / to stop working / (loanword from English "down")
milkshake (Note: is loaned from English "shake" via Cantonese , pr. sik1)
English translation
English-Chinese
TOEFL / Test of English as a Foreign Language
Kent (English county)
Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吋* | 吋* | *吋
inch (English)
Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English / also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English
Milton (name) / John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost
Lester or Leicester (name) / Leicester, English city in East Midlands
George Byron (1788-1824), English poet
English Channel
medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977), English movie actor and director
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer
Maugham (family name) / W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English writer
(name) Wallis / John Wallis (1616-1703), English mathematician
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *○* | ○* | *○
character used in Taiwan as a substitute for a real name (like "X" in English) / variant of
a can (loanword from English "tin")
transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols
to show off (loanword, from English "show") / to grandstand / to perform in a stage show
five-card stud (card game) (from English "show hand")
indefinite article (e.g. English a, an)
English horn
Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt / History of Henry V by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
England (historical loan, from English)
Lancashire (English county)
to translate into (Chinese, English etc)
Dickens (name) / Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Romantic poet
Henry Hudson (?-1611?), English explorer and navigator
British-style; English-style
American English
Colin Firth, English actor (1960-)
TEM-8 or Test for English Majors-Band 8, highest level proficiency test for English major students in PRC (abbr. for 英語專業八級考試|英语专业八级考试)
General English Proficiency Test (GEPT), commissioned by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in 1999
(Hong Kong) secondary school that uses English as a medium of instruction ("EMI school")
anti-English
Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安
IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
(Tw) McDonald's McMuffin or similar breakfast sandwich made with an English muffin
China Daily (an English language newspaper)
present participle (in English grammar)
anglophone / English department
TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)
Loughborough, English city
pidgin English
Yorkshire (English region)
Portsmouth, southern English seaport
Nottinghamshire (English county)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
Buckinghamshire (English county)
Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor
Bayes (name) / Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), English mathematician and theologian
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
Eton public school (English elite school)
Cavendish (name) / Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist
Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician, considered as the father of computer science
Wiltshire (English county)
Lincolnshire (English county)
English corner / spoken English practice group
Sarah Brightman (1960-), English pop star
Leicestershire, English county
(Tw) John Lennon (1940-1980), English singer, guitarist, and songwriter
Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian writer known for his English-language works and defense of Qing dynasty monarchy
Tennyson (name) / Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet
Strait of Calais in the English channel / Strait of Dover / Pas-de-Calais, département of France
(Internet slang) to have a simplistic view of sth (transcription of "too young, too simple" – English words spoken by Jiang Zemin 江澤民|江泽民 in chastizing Hong Kong reporters in 2000)
deductible (the part of an insurance claim paid by the insured) / (UK English) excess
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱
TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) (Tw)
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Renaissance philosopher and early scientist
East Midlands, English county
Berkshire (English county)
Vauxhall (English car brand and city)
Chinese-English
Chinese and English two-way translation
Oxfordshire (English county)

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