| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough | HSK 1 |
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| | family member / (old) servant | HSK 1 |
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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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| | everyone / influential family / great expert | HSK 2 |
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| | whole family | HSK 2 |
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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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| | family name; surname / to be surnamed ... | HSK 2 |
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| | head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child | 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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| | family member / (family) dependent | HSK 3 |
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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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| | 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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| | a household / door / family | HSK 4 |
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| | to provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement | HSK 6 |
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| | to lose a family fortune (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.) | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | 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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| | family / clan | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門|门, 個|个, 位 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money | HSK 7-9 |
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| | family financial situation / family circumstances | HSK 7-9 |
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| | old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang | 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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| | family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor | 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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| | every family (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | pigeon / dove / various birds of the family Columbidae | HSK 7-9 |
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| | each and every family (idiom) / every household | 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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| | fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action) / worries about the future consequences / often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything" | HSK 7-9 |
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| | extended family / big family / harmonious group | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | 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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| | family name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to go home to visit one's family | HSK 7-9 |
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| | friends and family / kith and kin | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | stag beetle (generic term for the beetles in the family of lucanidae) | |
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| | family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family | |
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| | the pangolin family | |
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| | family Papilionidae (taxonomy) | |
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| | moth in family Geometridae | |
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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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| | (neologism 2015) the Zhao family (derogatory term for those who hold power in the PRC) | |
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| | cockle (mollusk of the family Cardiidae) | |
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| | (Buddhism) to be reincarnated; (fig.) to be lenient; to spare sb / to have more children than allowed under family planning policy | |
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| | family property | |
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| | Moral Education Office (administrative department in Chinese schools responsible for overseeing student conduct, moral and ideological education, mental health, safety, aesthetic and patriotic education, extracurricular activities and coordination with families and student organizations) | |
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| | surname Ji / family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代 (1046–256 BC) | |
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| | genealogical record / family history / lineage | |
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| | insider contacts / via private channels / to seek influence with sb via family members (possibly dishonest or underhand) | |
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| | (idiom) to be the richest person (or family) in a region; to possess great wealth in one's locality | |
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| | a family wrenched apart (idiom) | |
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| | oneself and one's family / family background / pedigree / one's property / one's total assets | |
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| | blended family | |
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| | rich patriarchal family / aristocracy | |
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| | child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law | |
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| | various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea | |
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| | (lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | family influential for generations / aristocratic family | |
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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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| | saury fish (family Scomberesocidae) | |
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| | rich and powerful family | |
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| | instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello or double bass) / CL: 把 | |
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| | not liable to taxation (of monastery, imperial family etc) / tax free / duty free (shop) | |
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| | Euphorbiaceae (plant family including rubber and cassava) | |
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| | peasant family | |
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| | family of origin | |
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| | velvetleaf (Abutilon avicennae), plant of the jute family / bright | |
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| | (bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏 "the Wang clan") / (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏 "Mrs. Li, née Wang") / (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures | |
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| | oneself / one's own family | |
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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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| | house / room / CL: 間|间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines) | |
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| | adopted name / to take a name (of one's adoptive family) | |
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| | the daily life of a family | |
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| | (Internet slang) spoiled city girl from a rich family | |
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| | every family has its problems (idiom) | |
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| | swallow (family Hirundinidae) / old variant of 宴 | |
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| | handed down from ancient times / family heirloom | |
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| | red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae) | |
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| | the ponyfishes, aka slipmouths (Leiognathidae, a family of fishes in the order Perciformes) / Taiwan pr. [bi4] | |
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| | great family / rich family / large landlord / conspicuous spender or consumer | |
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| | family status | |
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| | household / family | |
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| | to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups | |
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| | spoonbill / ibis / family Threskiornithidae | |
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| | monk fruit, the sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine of the Curcubitaceae family native to southern China and northern Thailand, used in Chinese medicine | |
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| | respectable family; decent family | |
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| | to discredit / to defame / to smear sb's name / to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc) / to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage) / to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words) | |
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| | swift / Apodidae (the swift family) | |
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