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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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough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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  *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
family member / (old) servant
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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  *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
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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 / household / CL: 戶|户, 個|个
HSK 2
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
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  *姓* | 姓* | *姓
family name; surname / to be surnamed ...
HSK 2
whole family
HSK 2
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
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
family member / (family) dependent
HSK 3
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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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  *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
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  *戶* | 戶* | *戶
a household / door / family
HSK 4
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
to provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement
HSK 6
royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family
HSK 7-9
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
large amount / staple / influential family of long standing
HSK 7-9
affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
HSK 7-9
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
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
every family (idiom)
HSK 7-9
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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
family financial situation / family circumstances
HSK 7-9
to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin
HSK 7-9
to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc)
HSK 7-9
a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門|门, 個|个,
HSK 7-9
to hug / to cherish / within the bosom (of the family) / to embrace (also fig. an ideal, aspiration etc)
HSK 7-9
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
to go home to visit one's family
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
family / clan
HSK 7-9
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
family name
HSK 7-9
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
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 families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
HSK 7-9
to lose a family fortune (idiom)
HSK 7-9
extended family / big family / harmonious group
HSK 7-9
friends and family / kith and kin
HSK 7-9
pigeon / dove / various birds of the family Columbidae
HSK 7-9
the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
HSK 7-9
smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line / cigarette (CL:,條|条,,,)
HSK 7-9
a family wrenched apart (idiom)
to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member; to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member
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  *姬* | 姬* | *姬
surname Ji / family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代 (1046–256 BC)
lifeblood / the thing that one cherishes most in life / (coll.) family jewels (male genitals)
family status
the bereaved / family of the deceased
offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding / blue blood
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
tuition within family / education from father
Sauropus spatulifolius Beille (shrub of the Euphorbiaceae family)
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
Cicadidae, homopterous insect family including cicada
to destroy one's family
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  *鸌* | 鸌* | *鸌
(bound form) bird of the Procellariidae family, which includes shearwaters, gadfly petrels etc
the whole family
lit. the black horse of the herd / fig. troublemaker / the black sheep of the family
child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
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  *鮡* | 鮡* | *鮡
fish of family Sisoridae (Asiatic catfishes)
man's family (in marriage)
house door / family clan
(idiom) to be the richest person (or family) in a region; to possess great wealth in one's locality
to get married and have kids; to start a family
the old and the young / the youngest member of the family
Arecaceae or Palmae, the palm family
to manage the household / to be the one in charge of the family / to call the shots / to be in charge
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza
intimate / private saving of family members
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  *鶯* | 鶯* | *鶯
oriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers
monitor lizards (family Varanidae)
planned childbirth / birth control / family planning / abbr. for 計劃生育|计划生育
nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt) / mace / Myristicaceae (family of plants producing aromatic or hallucinogenic oils)
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  *房* | 房* | *房
house / room / CL: 間|间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)
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  *籍* | 籍* | *籍
(bound form) book; record; register / (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records / (bound form) membership
smelt (family Osmeridae)
Bunyavirus / virus of the family Bunyaviridae
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  *鮃* | 鮃* | *鮃
family of flatfish / sole
the family's financial circumstances
penaeidae (the prawn or shrimp family)
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
wealthy and influential family
to take all one's family along (idiom); encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations
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  *閥* | 閥* | *閥
powerful individual, family or group / clique / (loanword) valve
eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
to be in charge of (a major area of responsibility) / person in charge; manager / (old) butler (of a rich family); chief steward
lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact / no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)
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  *莎* | 莎* | *莎
katydid (family Tettigoniidae) / phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
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  *術* | 術* | *術
various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea
to celebrate a baby's one-month milestone (often with a banquet or gathering of family and friends)
oneself / one's own family
croton (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科 / croton seed, a strong purgative
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
lit. to restore the state and revive old families (idiom) / fig. to restore sth that has been destroyed or forgotten

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