| | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]) / (math.) sum / to make peace / (sports) to draw; to tie / (bound form) harmonious / (bound form) Japan; Japanese | HSK 1 |
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| | (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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| | river (CL: 條｜条, 道) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉 | HSK 2 |
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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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| | pit / stone / nucleus / nuclear / to examine / to check / to verify | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname He | |
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| | to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence / to join in the singing / to chime in with others | |
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| | he or she | |
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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 / (bound form) Iraq (abbr. for 伊拉克) / (bound form) Iran (abbr. for 伊朗) | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | awe-inspiring / abbr. for 赫茲｜赫兹, hertz (Hz) | |
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| | small box / case | HSK 5 |
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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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| | to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒 | HSK 3 |
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| | (classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion) | |
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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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| | 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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| | brown / gray or dark color / coarse hemp cloth / Taiwan pr. [he2] | |
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| | did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc) | |
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| | crane | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | what / how / why / which / carry | |
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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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| | each takes what he needs (idiom) | |
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| | not to forgive easily / not to let off / (You, He) won't get away with it! | |
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| | He river in Shandong | |
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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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| | 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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| | lit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives / fig. speak of the devil and he doth appear | |
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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. 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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| | 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. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. a nobleman who has seen a living animal cannot bear to see it die, hence he keeps away from the kitchen | |
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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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| | 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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| | (onom.) he he / mischievous laughter | |
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| | to allow (sb to do as he pleases) | |
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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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| | Yellow River or Huang He | |
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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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| | single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated) | |
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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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| | 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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| | if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes | |
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| | each one does what he thinks is right (idiom) / each goes his own way | |
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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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| | Holland; the Netherlands (abbr. for 荷蘭｜荷兰) | |
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| | lotus | |
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| | to carry on one's shoulder or back / burden / responsibility | |
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| | where do these words stem from? / why do you (he, etc) say such a thing? | |
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| | (coll.) he-man | |
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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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| | 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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| | to shout | |
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| | Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河｜黄河 Huang He river | |
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| | frightened / terrified | |
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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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| | (literary) to gnaw; to bite | |
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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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| | Maritime Day (July 11th) commemorating the first voyage of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 in 1405 AD | |
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| | (neologism, attested by 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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| | 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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| | (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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| | He Zhizhang (659-744), Tang dynasty poet | |
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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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| | Sanbao Eunuch, official title of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 / also written 三保太監｜三保太监 | |
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| | he / she / (courteous, as opposed to 他) | |
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| | a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom) | |
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| | what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on? | |
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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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| | surname He | |
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| | gully / ravine / Taiwan pr. [huo4] | |
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| | He laughs best who laughs last. | |
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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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| | to scare / to intimidate / to threaten / (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut / (interjection showing astonishment) | |
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| | raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) / raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki) / also pr. [hao2] | |
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| | Han Fuju (1890–1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石｜蒋介石 after he abandoned Jinan to the Japanese | |
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| | (bound form) jaw | |
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| | tassels | |
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| | to impeach | |
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| | (bound form) grain plant; cereal crop | |
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| | (bound form) to scold / to expel breath / (onom.) laughter (usu. reduplicated) / interjection of surprise | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | to congratulate | |
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| | (literary) harmonious (variant of 和) | HSK 1 |
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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 who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience. | |
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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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| | to dry / to dry up | |
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| | Mike He (1983-), Taiwanese actor | |
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| | He Houhua (1955-), Macau financier and politician, Chief Executive 1999-2009 | |
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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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| | with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be | |
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| | a student shall not be enlightened until he has tried hard by himself (idiom) | |
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