| | 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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| | ball / sphere / globe / CL: 個|个 / ball game / match / CL: 場|场 | HSK 1 |
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| | score (of a game or competition) | HSK 4 |
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| | traveler; tourist / (online gaming) guest player | HSK 2 |
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| | "The Wind Blows", a game in which one player calls out a category, all players who match it must change seats, and the person left without a seat becomes "it" ( 鬼) | |
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| | (historical weaponry) shield / (gaming, sci-fi) shield; damage-absorbing barrier / (fig.) protective safeguard | |
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| | to do an encore / (gaming) (of an item or character) to become available for purchase again | |
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| | new work (book, movie, video game etc) | |
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| | (slang) (online gaming) to team up with friends in a coordinated private group ( 黑 indicates private, team-only chat) | |
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| | (military, gaming) to concentrate fire on a single target | |
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| | (gaming) to play as the jungler; to farm neutral monsters in the jungle / (gaming) jungler | |
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| | to strive to be among the best / zheng shangyou (card game) | |
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| | speed of hand movement (esp. in gaming, typing or fast-response situations) | |
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| | liver (CL: 葉|叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy | HSK 6 |
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| | (gaming) kill threshold; the critical health point cutoff at which an enemy can be finished off immediately / (fig.) (slang) a critical survival threshold; a point beyond which a person or household lacks sufficient buffer such that a single shock leads to rapid collapse | |
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| | video game machine / video game console | HSK 6 |
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| | Tomb Raider (computer game) | |
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| | (video games) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) / battle royale game / last-man-standing game / to play PUBG (or similar game) / to win at PUBG (or similar game) | |
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| | Monopoly (game) / known as 地產大亨|地产大亨 in Taiwan | |
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| | to poke in the eye / (gaming) to place a ward (i.e. vision-granting item) / to keep tabs on (an online discussion etc); to monitor (for updates) | |
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| | Magic the gathering (online fantasy game of card collecting and battling) | |
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| | first half of a game or contest | |
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| | second half of a game or contest | |
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| | tech tree; pattern or sequence of technological development (in gaming or metaphorically in real-world innovation) | |
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| | endgame / conclusion / outcome / final part of a chess game | |
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| | League of Legends (video game) | |
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| | first half of a game or contest | |
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| | to reveal the cloven foot (idiom); to unmask one's true nature / to give the game away | |
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| | to play a game | |
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| | children's game played with illustrated cards / pogs / menko (Japan) | |
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| | to turn on the water / to let water out / (sports) to throw a game | HSK 7-9 |
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| | military exercise / war game | |
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| | second half of a game or contest | |
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| | Grand Theft Auto (video game series) | |
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| | dou dizhu ("fight the landlord") (card game) | |
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| | chess / chess-like game / a game of chess / CL: 盤|盘 / chess piece / CL: 個|个, 顆|颗 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc) | |
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| | electric-powered / (Tw) video game | HSK 6 |
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| | blackjack (card game) | |
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| | barrage (military) / "bullet screen", function which allows viewers to post on-screen comments in videos, movies etc in real time / danmaku (video game subgenre) | |
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| | (after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading | |
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| | minesweeper (computer game) | |
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| | final part of a go game (see 官子) / endgame / to finish up / to come to the final stage | |
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| | game theory | |
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| | (sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc) | |
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| | (loanword) / pass (for gaining admittance) / to pass (in a game of bridge etc) / to get through; to pass (an exam etc) | |
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| | murder mystery game (role-playing game) | |
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| | (coll.) (gaming) to progress to the next level / to level up | |
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| | poker (card game) / playing card / CL: 副 | |
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| | (video gaming) (of an entire team or party) to get wiped out | |
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| | half of a game or contest / half-court | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sudoku (puzzle game) | |
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| | One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom) | |
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| | player (of a game) / enthusiast (audio, model planes etc) | |
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| | poker (game) (loanword) / playing cards | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (gaming) team battle | |
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| | StarCraft (video game series) | |
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| | Final Fantasy (video game) | |
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| | Pokémon or Pocket Monsters, popular Japanese video game, anime and manga | |
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| | wine-drinking game | |
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| | open ball (math.) / to start a ball game / to kick off (soccer) / to tee off (golf) | |
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| | Grand Theft Auto (video game series) | |
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| | to enter the game; to get involved / to walk into a scam | |
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| | (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2006) to extract money unscrupulously (e.g. through IPOs, fandom, or game mechanics) while offering little genuine value; to grift; to fleece | |
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| | screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc) | |
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| | to set up a teammate (with an opportunity to score) / to throw a game | |
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| | land battle chess, Chinese board game similar to Stratego | |
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| | to archive; to place on file / saved data (for a video game etc) | |
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| | Rockman or Mega Man (video game series) | |
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| | handball (the game or the ball itself) / handball (a foul in soccer) | |
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| | to win every trick in a card game / grand slam / fig. total success | |
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| | Minecraft (video game) | |
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| | (gaming) tower defense | |
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| | pattern matching (puzzle game) / matching (type of test question in which presented items are to be paired up) | |
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| | opening (chess etc) / early stage of game, match, work, activity etc | |
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| | (idiom) one declines while the other flourishes; one loses out when the other one gains (as in a trade-off or a zero-sum game) | |
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| | Tetris (video game) | |
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| | Castlevania (video game series) | |
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| | finger-guessing game | |
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| | to make an in-app purchase in a game | |
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| | cricket (ball game) | |
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| | to generate fake transactions in order to game a commercial online platform (one that rewards users who make numerous transactions) | |
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| | to play yabao (a gambling game) / (fig.) to gamble on / to take one's chance / to try one's luck | |
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| | war-gaming; simulation of a military operation | |
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| | to hang up (a phone) / to leave a computer etc running (idling, downloading, or playing a game in one's stead etc) | |
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| | to play fast and loose with the law / to game the system / (leisure) rules of the game / way of doing an activity / (tourism) way of experiencing a place | |
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| | the game of Go | |
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| | (Internet) flash sale / (sports or online gaming) rapid dispatch of an opponent | |
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| | preceding player (in a game) | |
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| | middle game (in go or chess) / (share trading) mid-session / (abbr. for 中盤商|中盘商) distributor / wholesaler / middleman | |
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| | Super Bowl (American football championship game) | |
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| | lit. in gambling, nine times out of ten you lose (idiom) / fig. gambling is a mug's game | |
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| | to win in a lotto game | |
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| | token (used instead of money for slot machines, in game arcades etc) | |
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| | to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹) / to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game; to give sb a taste of his own medicine | |
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| | national dress; traditional attire / (Internet gaming) domestic gaming server; (esp.) Chinese server (abbr. for 國內服務器|国内服务器) | |
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| | game-fixing / to fix games | |
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