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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *忘* | 忘* | *忘
to forget / to overlook / to neglect
HSK 1
to forget
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *了* | 了* | *了
to finish / (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 "cannot forget") / (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无 or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least / to understand clearly (variant of 瞭|了)
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *落* | 落* | *落
to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind
HSK 5
to forget
HSK 7-9
let it be / let it pass / forget about it
HSK 6
to cast or put aside / to forget for a while
potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence
to forget one's roots
forget-me-not, genus Myosotis (botany)
indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty (idiom)
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
Never forget national humiliation, refers to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically / selfless
cannot forget
to forget and not bear recriminations (idiom); to let bygones be bygones / There is no point in crying over spilt milk.
to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore
HSK 7-9
to forget bad feelings; to mend a relationship
lit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom); gratitude for blessings and their well-spring / Don't forget where your happiness come from. / Be grateful for all your blessings!
to forget
to gradually forget as time passes; to have (sth) fade from one's memory
so dedicated as to forget one's meals (idiom)
to give up / to abandon (a goal etc) / to let sth go / forget it / let the matter drop
HSK 7-9
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) / unheeding the lessons of the past
to forget
to get carried away / to forget oneself
(idiom) to forget previous differences; to bury the hatchet
to recount history but omit one's ancestors (idiom); to forget one's roots
to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend / to kick a benefactor in the teeth
don't forget past events, they can guide you in future (idiom); benefit from past experience
hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude
to forget loyalty when in love / hoes before bros
potion given to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life (aka 孟婆湯|孟婆汤) / magic potion; (fig.) bewitching words or actions
lit. catch fish then forget the trap (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. to take help for granted
(of a singer, actor etc) to forget one's lines
to overlook past faults (idiom); to forgive and forget
Don't forget! (literary)
to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home
to forget oneself in extravagance / to burn money
(dialect) give me a break! / forget about it!
to stray and forget to return
to forget (everything one has learned)
to forget past pains once the wound has healed (idiom)
to forget former enmity (idiom)
Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
to leave behind (inadvertently) / to forget / to omit / to leave out
(Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind
don't forget your friends when you become rich
to forget one's manners / to forget oneself / to lose self-control (in a situation)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谖* | 谖* | *谖
to deceive / to forget
to forget one's meals
lit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom); gratitude for blessings and their well-spring / Don't forget where your happiness come from. / Be grateful for all your blessings!


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