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  *里* | 里* | *里
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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  *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
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  *戶* | 戶* | *戶
a household / door / family
HSK 4
family / household / CL: 戶|户, 個|个
HSK 2
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  *科* | 科* | *科
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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  *表* | 表* | *表
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
family member / (old) servant
HSK 1
whole family
HSK 2
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
HSK 2
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  *老* | 老* | *老
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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough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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  *室* | 室* | *室
room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy
HSK 3
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  *姓* | 姓* | *姓
family name; surname / to be surnamed ...
HSK 2
family member / (family) dependent
HSK 3
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  *門* | 門* | *門
gate / door / CL: / 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
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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  *屬* | 屬* | *屬
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
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
to lose a family fortune (idiom)
HSK 7-9
family name
HSK 7-9
the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety
HSK 7-9
rich patriarchal family / aristocracy
to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin
HSK 7-9
family / clan
HSK 7-9
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門|门, 個|个,
HSK 7-9
offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding / blue blood
papaya (Carica papaya) / genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae / Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)
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  *堂* | 堂* | *堂
(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
handed down from ancient times / family heirloom
extended family / big family / harmonious group
HSK 7-9
lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom) / fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed
Anacardiaceae, plant family including lac tree (Rhus vernicifera) 漆樹|漆树
master of the house; head of the family
to be married but keep it secret from family, colleagues or the general public
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
family property
social group / subculture / family / clan / see also
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  *鰏* | 鰏* | *鰏
the ponyfishes, aka slipmouths (Leiognathidae, a family of fishes in the order Perciformes) / Taiwan pr. [bi4]
the daily life of a family
to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc)
HSK 7-9
lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field / fig. keep the goodies within the family (proverb)
three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
group photo of whole family
friends and family / kith and kin
HSK 7-9
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
every family (idiom)
HSK 7-9
affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
HSK 7-9
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
to go home to visit one's family
HSK 7-9
child of a Manchu bannerman family (nobility) / (fig.) privileged brat
family member
(zoology) family Mosasauridae
family heirloom
rich family / large landlord
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  *魦* | 魦* | *魦
shark family, including some rays and skates
large amount / staple / influential family of long standing
HSK 7-9
foundation / base / family estate
instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello or double bass) / CL:
Cetacea (whale family)
virus family
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
The Book of Family Names, anonymous Song dynasty reading primer listing 438 surnames
lineage / genealogy / family tree
photograph of the entire family / hodgepodge (cookery)
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)
royal family / royal household
blood is thicker than water / fig. family ties are closer than social relations
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
the only son of a family / (functional programming or philosophy) monad
the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
HSK 7-9
practice of allowing only one child per family
woman from an ordinary family
crab of family Sesarmidae
not liable to taxation (of monastery, imperial family etc) / tax free / duty free (shop)
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
genealogy / family tree
family planning
to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family
grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper)
large and influential family / clan
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
royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family
HSK 7-9
to support a family / to raise a family
(idiom) thriving; (of a city) populous and wealthy; (of a family) large and prosperous
family-run shop
dinner party held in one's home / family reunion dinner
not recognizing one's family (idiom); self-centered and not making any allowances for the needs of one's relatives
every family has its problems (idiom)
family property / patrimony
to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups
single parent family
family property
gray mullet (Mugil cephalus) / snakehead fish (family Channidae)
family financial situation / family circumstances
HSK 7-9
lit. as if enumerating one's family valuables (idiom) / fig. to be very familiar with a matter
wife's family (before marriage)

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