| | (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his / (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人) | HSK 1 |
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| | other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") | HSK 4 |
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| | what are you doing? / what's he up to? | HSK 1 |
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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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| | surname He | |
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| | he or she | |
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| | lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信｜韩信 being made Grand General 大將軍｜大将军 / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor | |
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| | He Jinli, Chinese name adopted by Kamala Harris (1964-), US vice president 2021- | |
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| | (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / (preceding a noun) that | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow. | |
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| | (classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion) | |
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| | Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer | |
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| | what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on? | |
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| | did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc) | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | lit. when a man stands straight, he doesn't worry that his shadow is slanting (saying) / fig. as long as one conducts oneself honorably, one need not worry about what people think; a clean hand wants no washing | |
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| | He Yingqin (1890-1987), senior Guomindang general | |
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| | to allow (sb to do as he pleases) | |
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| | each takes what he needs (idiom) | |
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| | lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom) / fig. everybody's business is nobody's business / (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.) | |
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| | (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛｜陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary | |
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| | a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom) | |
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| | Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / (fig.) a mastermind | |
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| | lit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives / fig. speak of the devil and he doth appear | |
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| | He river in Shandong | |
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| | Maritime Day (July 11th) commemorating the first voyage of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 in 1405 AD | |
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| | to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 to regions bordering the Indian Ocean) | |
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| | if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes | |
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| | (idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly / also pr. [zhu1yun2-she2jian4] | |
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| | Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning | |
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| | lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom) | |
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| | (onom.) he he / mischievous laughter | |
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| | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
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| | single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated) | |
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| | (coll.) he-man | |
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| | hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions | |
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| | He laughs best who laughs last. | |
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| | lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose | |
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| | lit. to beat a drowning dog (idiom) / fig. to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy / to hit sb when he's down | |
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| | lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose | |
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| | lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he'll want a mile | |
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| | not to forgive easily / not to let off / (You, He) won't get away with it! | |
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| | lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends. | |
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| | Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口) | |
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| | each one does what he thinks is right (idiom) / each goes his own way | |
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| | he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear conscience | |
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| | He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | where do these words stem from? / why do you (he, etc) say such a thing? | |
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| | (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL: 條｜条) / (literary) big; great / (dialect) he; she; him; her / (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe | |
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| | lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise | |
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| | who do (you) think (you) are? / who does (he, she etc) think (he, she) is? | |
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| | He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom). / Be careful not to trust foreigners. / Beware of Greeks bearing gifts! | |
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| | He Zhizhang (659-744), Tang dynasty poet | |
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| | He county in Guangxi | |
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| | Yellow River or Huang He | |
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| | (neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay) | |
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| | Mike He (1983-), Taiwanese actor | |
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| | lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor) | |
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| | James Soong (1942-), Taiwanese politician expelled from Guomindang in 2000 when he founded People First Party 親民黨｜亲民党 | |
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| | Chinese treasure ship, a type of large sailing ship in the fleet of Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 | |
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| | lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken | |
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| | Wu Zixu (–484 BC), Chu-born strategist for Wu. After the King of Chu executed his family, he fled to Wu and masterminded Wu's invasion of Chu (506 BC), destroying its capital in a campaign that doubled as personal vengeance. | |
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| | Li He (790-816), Tang poet | |
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| | he / she / (courteous, as opposed to 他) | |
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| | Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife | |
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| | Xiao He (-193 BC), famous strategist and chancellor, fought on Liu Bang's 劉邦｜刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭｜楚汉战争 | |
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| | hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions | |
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| | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people | |
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| | (proverb) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study | |
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| | lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom) / fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用｜卢藏用, who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court) | |
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| | Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom | |
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| | lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful | |
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| | with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be | |
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| | lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow / fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends. | |
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| | He Houhua (1955-), Macau financier and politician, Chief Executive 1999-2009 | |
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| | avoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws (idiom) | |
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| | "he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫) | |
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| | Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河｜黄河 Huang He river | |
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| | to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she urinates | |
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| | dabbler / dilettante who speaks as though he were an expert | |
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| | with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be | |
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| | (Cantonese) he, she, it | |
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| | to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down | |
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| | a student should not be guided until he has made an effort to express his thoughts (idiom) | |
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| | a student shall not be enlightened until he has tried hard by himself (idiom) | |
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| | He Chao (active c. 711), Tang dynasty poet | |
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| | Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters) / sb who keeps to their word no matter what | |
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| | if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom) / to regret vainly one's past behavior | |
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| | Huang He Inundated Area, the area flooded in 1938 when dikes along the Yellow River were destroyed in an attempt to halt the advance of Japanese troops / (historically) Huang He floodable area | |
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| | He laughs best who laughs last. | |
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| | What's (he) up to? / What's the motive behind all this? | |
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| | nothing he can't do | |
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| | He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience. | |
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| | (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫｜刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes | |
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| | Xie He (479-502), portrait painter from Qi of Southern dynasties 南齊｜南齐 | |
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| | He County or Hexian, a county in Ma'anshan City 馬鞍山市｜马鞍山市, Anhui | |
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| | to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she urinates | |
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