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HSK
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *通* | 通* | *通
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
HSK 2
expert; specialist
HSK 3
expert / past master / dab hand
HSK 6
to be good at; to be expert in
HSK 7-9
expert / adept / experienced / an expert / a professional
HSK 7-9
connoisseur; expert; veteran
HSK 7-9
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
expert in / good at
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *专* | 专* | *专
for a particular person, occasion, purpose / focused on one thing / special / expert / particular (to sth) / concentrated / specialized
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *师* | 师* | *师
teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops
deity / (Internet slang) guru / expert / whiz
renowned expert / master (of an art or craft)
king / magnate / person having expert skill in something
senior technician; technical expert
prawn / (Internet slang) expert / whiz
(coll.) man in power / boss / authority / expert
dabbler / dilettante who speaks as though he were an expert
expert
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
to be adept at sth / to be an expert in a trade or profession
phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling)
expert / professional
to know (sth) very well / to be an expert in
(coll.) leading light / true expert / badass
Lynn E. Davis (1943-), US academic and arms control expert, undersecretary of state 1993-1997
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  *擅* | 擅* | *擅
without authority / to usurp / to arrogate to oneself / to monopolize / expert in / to be good at
imperial strategic adviser / expert on strategy
to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
connoisseur / expert
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俍* | 俍* | *俍
(literary) to be good at; to be expert in / (literary) skilled craftsman
expert cart-driver / charioteer
to excel in some field / expert at sth
expert / left-hand side (of a machine) / left-hand side (driver's side) of a vehicle
(coll.) expert; connoisseur; guru; enthusiast; geek (influenced by Japanese 達人 "tatsujin" c. 2000) / (literary) sensible person; person who understands life / (literary) optimist
writer / expert
experienced scholar / old expert in the field
(coll.) to know the ropes / an expert
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges
expert / dab hand
Bruce Lee (1940-1973), Hong Kong actor and martial arts expert
analyst / expert
military expert / general
lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom) / fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows
expert commentary
(idiom) teeming with experts
learned person / expert in a certain field / abbr. to 方家
expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill / A masterpiece demands suffering.
strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom)
one who knows his business / professional / expert / au fait
expert flower grower
medical expert / medical specialist
China watcher / an expert on China / an old China hand
an expert always produces the best work (idiom)
expert system
expert evaluation
expert (in a field)
expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to the emperor (in the Tang and Song dynasties)
Dreyer (name) / June Teufel Dreyer, China expert at Univ. of Miami and Foreign Policy Research Institute
expert on writing systems
learned person / expert in a certain field / abbr. for 大方之家
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
(idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities; to put the right people in the right places
(saying) it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter; (fig.) to be an armchair expert; to blabber on
expert flower grower
David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (1935-), British diplomat and China expert, Governor of Hong Kong 1986-1992
strategic experts as thick as rain (idiom); no shortage of advisers on strategy
strategic experts and powerful generals (idiom)
a novice making a fool of himself / to make oneself ridiculous before experts
lit. to wield the broadsword in the presence of Lord Guan (idiom) / fig. to make a fool of oneself by showing off in front of an expert


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