| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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 |
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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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 |
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| | from childhood; from a young age | HSK 2 |
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| | 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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| | to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL: 張|张, 片 / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里) / cassette | HSK 2 |
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| | (bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course | HSK 4 |
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| | to know from experience / to learn through experience / to realize / understanding / experience | HSK 3 |
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| | 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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| | 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 |
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| | anyway / in any case / to come over from the enemy's side | HSK 3 |
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| | (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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| | to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | HSK 3 |
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| | legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... | HSK 3 |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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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| | 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 |
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| | to come from (a place) / From: (in email header) | HSK 2 |
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| | from beginning to end / all along | HSK 3 |
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| | 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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| | (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 |
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| | to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind | HSK 1 |
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| | apart from / other than / except for / external / outside of / on the other side of / beyond | HSK 2 |
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| | (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 |
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| | around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear | HSK 3 |
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| | green / (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend) | HSK 2 |
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| | 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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| | to lean / to slant / oblique / prejudiced / to deviate from average / to stray from the intended line / stubbornly / contrary to expectations | HSK 6 |
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| | due to / to stem from | HSK 5 |
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| | the rest / the others / remaining / remainder / apart from them | HSK 4 |
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| | to divide into groups / group (formed from a larger group) / subgroup / (computer networking) packet | HSK 3 |
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| | from time to time / now and then / occasionally / frequently | HSK 5 |
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| | hereafter / henceforth / in the future / from now on | HSK 2 |
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| | from now on / in the future / time to come | HSK 6 |
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| | to leave hospital / to be discharged from hospital | HSK 2 |
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| | from now on / since then / henceforth | HSK 4 |
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| | to recommend / to introduce (from outside) | HSK 4 |
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| | to close; to seal off / to close down (an illegal venue) / closed (i.e. isolated from outside input) | HSK 4 |
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| | whole body / from head to toe / single person / a suit of clothes | HSK 5 |
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| | 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 入 "iri") | HSK 6 |
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| | to leave; to part from / to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to | HSK 3 |
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| | hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably | HSK 4 |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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 |
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| | to avert / to prevent / to avoid / to refrain from | HSK 4 |
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| | pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆, a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL: 座) / (loanword) (pastry) tart | HSK 6 |
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| | a loan / CL: 筆|笔 / to provide a loan (e.g. bank) / to raise a loan (from e.g. a bank) | HSK 5 |
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| | to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement | HSK 3 |
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| | consistent / constant / from start to finish / all along / persistent | HSK 6 |
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| | to get angry / to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | from within / therefrom | HSK 5 |
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| | to withdraw money from a bank | HSK 6 |
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| | (idiom) to stand out from the crowd; distinctive; different from the rest | HSK 7-9 |
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| | distance / CL: 個|个 / to be apart from | HSK 4 |
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| | to draw on (others' experience) / to learn from (how others do things) / lesson to be learned (by observing others) | HSK 6 |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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 |
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| | extremely thin person / (ACG) 2D character (from anime, manga etc) | |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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 |
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| | since childhood; from a young age | |
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| | 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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| | (slang) socially tone-deaf; unable to read the room (from Japanese KY, acronym of 空気が 読めない "kuuki ga yomenai") | |
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| | (soccer slang) spectacular, world-class goal; wonder goal (originally Cantonese: 波 is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bo1]) | |
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| | hereby / from this | HSK 5 |
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| | (idiom) to work against the interests of sb one derives support from; to double-cross one's employer; to bite the hand that feeds | |
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| | arm (from shoulder to wrist); (fig.) assistant; helper | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to avoid / to shun / to flee / to escape / to keep away from / to leave / to hide from | HSK 4 |
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| | baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒) | HSK 5 |
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| | from now on / henceforward | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | region / regional (away from the central administration) / local | HSK 4 |
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| | to travel far away from home | |
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| | to resign from a job | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | occasionally; from time to time | HSK 6 |
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| | (coll.) person from Guangdong province (esp. Cantonese) | |
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| | (ACG) another world; parallel universe (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 異世界 "isekai") | |
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| | 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 |
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| | to be energized by it; to receive a boost from it | |
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| | 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 |
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| | (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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| | (loanword from Japanese "NG", an initialism for "no good") (film and TV) blooper; to do a blooper | |
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| | to come from | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (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 | |
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| | to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany) | HSK 5 |
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| | (Tw) pengbing, a hollow bun lined with brown sugar (from Taiwanese 膨餅, Tai-lo pr. [phòng-piánn]) | |
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| | 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 |
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| | to take shelter from the rain | |
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| | (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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| | to prick / to run or stick (a needle etc) into / mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar") | HSK 6 |
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| | (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 | |
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| | to inquire; to consult; to seek advice from | HSK 6 |
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| | (ACG) car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga etc (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 痛車 "itasha") | |
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