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  *去* | 去* | *去
to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
HSK 1
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  *从* | 从* | *从
from; through; via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
HSK 1
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  *打* | 打* | *打
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话 "to make a phone call", 打針|打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后 "since then")
HSK 1
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  *提* | 提* | *提
to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid
HSK 2
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  *性* | 性* | *性
nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to come down / (completed action marker) / (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.) / (indicates continuation from the past towards us) / to be harvested (of crops) / to be over (of a period of time) / to go among the masses (said of leaders)
HSK 3
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  *走* | 走* | *走
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走) / to change (shape, form, meaning)
HSK 1
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  *比* | 比* | *比
to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
HSK 1
from childhood; from a young age
HSK 2
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
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  *卡* | 卡* | *卡
to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL: 張|张, / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里) / cassette
HSK 2
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  *自* | 自* | *自
(bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course
HSK 4
to know from experience / to learn through experience / to realize / understanding / experience
HSK 3
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  *松* | 松* | *松
loose / to loosen / to relax / floss (dry, fluffy food product made from shredded, seasoned meat or fish, used as a topping or filling)
HSK 4
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  *听* | 听* | *听
to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
HSK 1
anyway / in any case / to come over from the enemy's side
HSK 3
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  *于* | 于* | *于
(of time or place) in; at; on / (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for / (indicating a source) from; out of / (used in comparison) than / (used in the passive voice) by
HSK 6
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  *由* | 由* | *由
to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
HSK 3
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
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  *起* | 起* | *起
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
HSK 1
the top and bottom of sth / the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom / to go up and down / before and after (as in 上下文 "context") / (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so / (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦 "harmony between superiors and subordinates") / all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下 "the entire nation") / relative superiority (as in 不相上下 "evenly matched")
HSK 5
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
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  *断* | 断* | *断
to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly
HSK 3
to come from (a place) / From: (in email header)
HSK 2
from beginning to end / all along
HSK 3
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  *刷* | 刷* | *刷
a brush / to paint; to daub / to brush; to scrub / (fig.) to remove; to eliminate (from a contest); to fire (from a job) / (onom.) swish; rustle / to swipe (a card) / to scroll on (a phone) / (gaming) to grind; to farm (for experience points, equipment, levels etc)
HSK 4
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  *与* | 与* | *与
(formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases) / (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast, e.g. 與他握手|与他握手 "shake hands with him", 與去年不同|与去年不同 "different from last year") / (literary) to give; to grant; to bestow
HSK 6
to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind
HSK 1
apart from / other than / except for / external / outside of / on the other side of / beyond
HSK 2
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  *晒* | 晒* | *晒
(of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to
HSK 4
around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear
HSK 3
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  *绿* | 绿* | *绿
green / (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)
HSK 2
military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
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  *偏* | 偏* | *偏
to lean / to slant / oblique / prejudiced / to deviate from average / to stray from the intended line / stubbornly / contrary to expectations
HSK 6
due to / to stem from
HSK 5
the rest / the others / remaining / remainder / apart from them
HSK 4
to divide into groups / group (formed from a larger group) / subgroup / (computer networking) packet
HSK 3
from time to time / now and then / occasionally / frequently
HSK 5
hereafter / henceforth / in the future / from now on
HSK 2
from now on / in the future / time to come
HSK 6
to leave hospital / to be discharged from hospital
HSK 2
from now on / since then / henceforth
HSK 4
to recommend / to introduce (from outside)
HSK 4
to close; to seal off / to close down (an illegal venue) / closed (i.e. isolated from outside input)
HSK 4
whole body / from head to toe / single person / a suit of clothes
HSK 5
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  *入* | 入* | *入
to enter; to go into / to join; to become a member of / (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时) / abbr. for 入聲|入声 / (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese "iri")
HSK 6
to leave; to part from / to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
HSK 3
hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably
HSK 4
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  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever / (fig.) to be fascinated with; to obsess over / (fig.) flourishing; thriving; popular
HSK 4
to avert / to prevent / to avoid / to refrain from
HSK 4
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  *塔* | 塔* | *塔
pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆, a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:) / (loanword) (pastry) tart
HSK 6
a loan / CL: 筆|笔 / to provide a loan (e.g. bank) / to raise a loan (from e.g. a bank)
HSK 5
to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
HSK 3
consistent / constant / from start to finish / all along / persistent
HSK 6
to get angry / to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
HSK 7-9
from within / therefrom
HSK 5
to withdraw money from a bank
HSK 6
(idiom) to stand out from the crowd; distinctive; different from the rest
HSK 7-9
distance / CL: 個|个 / to be apart from
HSK 4
to draw on (others' experience) / to learn from (how others do things) / lesson to be learned (by observing others)
HSK 6
apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他誰也沒來|除了他谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語他也會法語|除了英语他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B")
HSK 3
the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
HSK 4
extremely thin person / (ACG) 2D character (from anime, manga etc)
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  *抽* | 抽* | *抽
to draw out; to pull out from in between / to remove part of the whole / to inhale (esp. smoke) / (of fabric etc) to shrink / (of certain plants) to sprout; to bud / to whip; to thrash / classifier for sheets (of tissues, wet wipes etc)
HSK 4
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project
HSK 6
since childhood; from a young age
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  *吐* | 吐* | *吐
to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances)
HSK 5
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  *ky* | ky* | *ky
(slang) socially tone-deaf; unable to read the room (from Japanese KY, acronym of 空気めない "kuuki ga yomenai")
(soccer slang) spectacular, world-class goal; wonder goal (originally Cantonese: is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bo1])
hereby / from this
HSK 5
(idiom) to work against the interests of sb one derives support from; to double-cross one's employer; to bite the hand that feeds
arm (from shoulder to wrist); (fig.) assistant; helper
HSK 7-9
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  *避* | 避* | *避
to avoid / to shun / to flee / to escape / to keep away from / to leave / to hide from
HSK 4
baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒)
HSK 5
from now on / henceforward
HSK 7-9
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
region / regional (away from the central administration) / local
HSK 4
to travel far away from home
to resign from a job
Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗 in 658
occasionally; from time to time
HSK 6
(coll.) person from Guangdong province (esp. Cantonese)
(ACG) another world; parallel universe (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 異世界 "isekai")
to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself
HSK 4
to be energized by it; to receive a boost from it
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  *夹* | 夹* | *夹
to press from either side / to place in between / to sandwich / to carry sth under armpit / wedged between / between / to intersperse / to mix / to mingle / clip / folder / Taiwan pr. [jia2]
HSK 5
(folk religion) favorable divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯 (one flat side and one rounded side up); affirmative response from a deity
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  *NG* | NG* | *NG
(loanword from Japanese "NG", an initialism for "no good") (film and TV) blooper; to do a blooper
to come from
HSK 7-9
(Tw) to transition smoothly with no gap, interruption or adjustment period; to move directly from one position, stage or relationship to another; to dovetail seamlessly
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
HSK 5
(Tw) pengbing, a hollow bun lined with brown sugar (from Taiwanese 膨餅, Tai-lo pr. [phòng-piánn])
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  *离* | 离* | *离
to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing fire /
HSK 2
to take shelter from the rain
(folk religion) unfavorable divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯 (both blocks rounded side up); negative response from a deity
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  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
to prick / to run or stick (a needle etc) into / mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")
HSK 6
(folk religion) inconclusive divination result from casting moon blocks 筊杯 (at least one block lands on its edge); result interpreted as unclear or exceptional
to inquire; to consult; to seek advice from
HSK 6
(ACG) car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga etc (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 痛車 "itasha")

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