| | li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇 and neighborhood 鄰|邻 levels | HSK 1 |
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| | 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 |
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| | to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family | HSK 4 |
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| | gate / door / CL: 扇 / 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 |
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| | a household / door / family | HSK 4 |
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| | branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | exterior surface / family relationship via females / to show (one's opinion) / a model / a table (listing information) / a form / a meter (measuring sth) | HSK 2 |
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| | family member / (old) servant | HSK 1 |
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| | whole family | HSK 2 |
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| | everyone / influential family / great expert | HSK 2 |
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| | family member / (family) dependent | HSK 3 |
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| | prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough | HSK 1 |
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| | room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy | HSK 3 |
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| | family name; surname / to be surnamed ... | HSK 2 |
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| | entrance / door / gate / large and influential family | HSK 2 |
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| | category / genus (taxonomy) / family members / dependents / to belong to / subordinate to / affiliated with / be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals) / to be / to prove to be / to constitute | HSK 3 |
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| | filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety | HSK 7-9 |
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| | head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child | HSK 2 |
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| | to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | family name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group | |
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| | friends and family / kith and kin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement | HSK 6 |
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| | smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line / cigarette (CL: 支, 條|条, 根, 包, 盒) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) pampered scion of a wealthy family | |
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| | rich patriarchal family / aristocracy | |
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| | to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | family / clan | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hug / to cherish / within the bosom (of the family) / to embrace (also fig. an ideal, aspiration etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor | HSK 7-9 |
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| | papaya (Carica papaya) / genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae / Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) | |
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| | (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 |
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| | affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact / no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom) | |
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| | a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門|门, 個|个, 位 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | extended family / big family / harmonious group | HSK 7-9 |
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| | notable former families | |
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| | master of the house; head of the family | |
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| | family influential for generations / aristocratic family | |
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| | Bagridae (catfish family) | |
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| | seniority in the family or clan; position in the family hierarchy / Taiwan pr. [bei4fen4] | |
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| | social group / subculture / family / clan / see also 族 | |
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| | each and every family (idiom) / every household | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the daily life of a family | |
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| | to manage the household / to be the one in charge of the family / to call the shots / to be in charge | |
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| | lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field / fig. keep the goodies within the family (proverb) | |
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| | three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou) | |
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| | household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户, 家 | |
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| | every family (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty | |
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| | (idiom) to provide for one's family | |
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| | child of a Manchu bannerman family (nobility) / (fig.) privileged brat | |
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| | family property | |
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| | family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family | |
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| | shark family, including some rays and skates | |
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| | the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match | HSK 7-9 |
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| | large amount / staple / influential family of long standing | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise) | |
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| | instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello or double bass) / CL: 把 | |
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| | relatives / members of the same family, clan, tribe etc | |
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| | virus family | |
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| | family property | |
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| | hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | The Book of Family Names, anonymous Song dynasty reading primer listing 438 surnames | |
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| | (of a family) to come together at lunar New Year's Eve / family reunion at New Year's | |
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| | various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea | |
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| | lineage / genealogy / family tree | |
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| | photograph of the entire family / hodgepodge (cookery) | |
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| | to go home to visit one's family | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. as if enumerating one's family valuables (idiom) / fig. to be very familiar with a matter | |
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| | royal family / royal household | |
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| | not recognizing one's family (idiom); self-centered and not making any allowances for the needs of one's relatives | |
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| | lit. the black horse of the herd / fig. troublemaker / the black sheep of the family | |
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| | not liable to taxation (of monastery, imperial family etc) / tax free / duty free (shop) | |
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| | the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | practice of allowing only one child per family | |
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| | precious horses and magnificent carriage (idiom); rich family with extravagant lifestyle / ostentatious display of luxury | |
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| | woman from an ordinary family | |
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| | to lay down a family fortune / to get rich / to become prosperous | |
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| | crab of family Sesarmidae | |
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| | mutual support between the military and the people – specifically, support provided by local people and authorities for the military, and preferential treatment of the families of soldiers, on the one hand, and the military's support for the government and care for the general public, on the other | |
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| | to take care of one's family | |
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| | grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called 鮨 / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper) | |
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| | to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members) | |
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| | to be married but keep it secret from family, colleagues or the general public | |
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| | to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family | |
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| | balsam / Balsaminaceae (a flower family including Impatiens balsamina) / touch-me-not / busy Lizzie | |
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| | large and influential family / clan | |
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| | sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra | |
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| | to gather around the stove / (Tw) to come together for a family dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve | |
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| | even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb) | |
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| | (neologism 2015) the Zhao family (derogatory term for those who hold power in the PRC) | |
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| | "left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them | |
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| | royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) thriving; (of a city) populous and wealthy; (of a family) large and prosperous | |
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| | noble family / of Chinese ancestry | |
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| | splendor shines on the family's door (idiom) / fig. to bring honor to one's family | |
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