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HSK
conscientious / earnest / serious / to take seriously / to take to heart
HSK 1
to remember / to bear in mind / to learn by heart
HSK 1
center; heart; core
HSK 2
central point / in one's thoughts / in one's heart
HSK 2
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  *背* | 背* | *背
the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / (slang) unlucky / hard of hearing
HSK 2
chest / heart; mind
HSK 2
compassion / kindness / care for others / love / CL: / charity (bazaar, golf day etc) / heart (the symbol ♥)
HSK 3
to grieve / to be broken-hearted / to feel deeply hurt
HSK 3
heart; innermost being / (math.) incenter
HSK 3
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  *心* | 心* | *心
heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL: 顆|颗, 個|个
HSK 3
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  *酸* | 酸* | *酸
sour / tart / sick at heart / grieved / sore / aching / pedantic / impractical / to make sarcastic remarks about sb / an acid
HSK 4
delighted / to one's heart's content / straightforward / also pr. [tong4 kuai5]
HSK 4
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  *顆* | 顆* | *顆
classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
HSK 5
attitude (of the heart) / state of one's psyche / way of thinking / mentality
HSK 5
HSK 6
heart disease
HSK 6
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  *狠* | 狠* | *狠
ruthless; fierce; ferocious / determined; resolute / to harden (one's heart) / old variant of
HSK 6
bright / smart / quick-witted / heart / thoughts / spirit
HSK 6
reluctant to part (idiom); broken-hearted at having to leave
HSK 7-9
wholeheartedly / heart and soul
HSK 7-9
(idiom) heart and soul; wholeheartedly
HSK 7-9
heart's blood / expenditure (for some project) / meticulous care
HSK 7-9
to question closely / to investigate in detail / to examine minutely / to get to the heart of the matter
HSK 7-9
(idiom) heart-stopping; hair-raising; breathtaking
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to follow one's heart's desires; to do as one pleases
HSK 7-9
to have one's heart filled with / (to collide) full on / (of farm animals) heavy with young
HSK 7-9
heart / mind / ambition / aspiration
HSK 7-9
heart / intention / one's inclination / state of mind / to have the heart for sth / mood
HSK 7-9
to lose heart / to be discouraged
HSK 7-9
lit. shocks the eye, astonishes the heart (idiom); shocking / horrible to see / a ghastly sight
HSK 7-9
to be flustered / (dialect) irregular heart-beat
HSK 7-9
to have the heart to do sth / to steel oneself to a task
HSK 7-9
to enter deeply into people's hearts / to have a real impact on the people (idiom)
HSK 7-9
anxiety / sore point / secret worry / mental disorder / heart disease (medicine)
HSK 7-9
cold-hearted; unfeeling; callous
HSK 7-9
to harbor (evil) intentions / to be bent on / a tranquil heart or mind
heart ♥ (in card games) / red, heart-shaped symbol / bullseye
to set one's heart on / to set one's choice on
lit. heart distracted, thoughts in turmoil (idiom); distraught with anxiety
excessive tendency to clemency (idiom) / soft-hearted (pejorative)
to have a few drinks / to drink to one's heart's content
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  *胸* | 胸* | *胸
chest / bosom / heart / mind / thorax
gloom / a lump on the heart
lit. look into one's heart, no shame (idiom); with a clear conscience
to have a heart-to-heart chat
coronary heart disease
lit. to wash one's heart and renew one's face (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways / to turn over a new leaf
heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself / saying one thing but meaning sth different
heart (one's innermost being)
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  *坦* | 坦* | *坦
flat / open-hearted / level / smooth
to plunder; to pillage / (fig.) to win (people's hearts)
(of the heart) palpitating with fear / palpitation (Chinese medicine)
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently / to know sth inside out / to know sth by heart
words from the bottom of one's heart
etched in one's bones and heart (idiom); ever-present memory (esp. resentment)
heartbeat; heart rate / (fig.) emotionally affected; aroused (of desire, emotion, interest etc)
(TCM) upper burner, the part of the body within the thoracic cavity (above the diaphragm, including the heart and lungs)
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  *搏* | 搏* | *搏
to fight / to combat / to seize / (of heart) to beat
to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart / to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc) / backing; endorsement
to keep in mind; to store in one's heart; to remember perfectly
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  *懷* | 懷* | *懷
bosom / heart / mind / to think of / to harbor in one's mind / to conceive (a child)
one's heart; one's mind
full of tender feelings (idiom); tender-hearted
bottom of one's heart
what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom)
felt a chill (in one's heart) / (one's heart) sank
heartbroken / to break one's heart
thoughts / what one has in one's heart
the Heart Sutra
one's whole heart / from the bottom of one's heart
to care about / to take seriously / to take to heart
to shake up / to deal a shock / (fig.) to stir (sb's heart)
with all of one's heart
(onom.) thump; clunk (e.g. of footsteps or impact); (fig.) a sudden emotional jolt; heart skipping a beat
to jump about / (of the heart) to beat wildly
five viscera of TCM, namely: heart , liver , spleen , lungs and kidneys 腎|肾
(idiom) to speak from the heart
lit. heart of wolf and lungs of dog (idiom) / cruel and unscrupulous
childish heart / childish innocence
to enjoy oneself to the full / to one's heart's content
myocardial infarction; heart attack
lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear / scared witless
(of a woman) to give one's heart (to sb); (fig.) to devote oneself wholeheartedly to sb or sth
a person after one's heart (charming person) / capable person
bottom of one's heart
Hall of Supreme Harmony, the largest of the three halls that constitute the heart of the Outer Court of the Forbidden City 紫禁城
one's heart filled with / full of (joy)
ventricle (heart)
lit. carved in bones and engraved in the heart (idiom) / fig. etched in one's memory / unforgettable
(perfumery) middle note / heart note
lit. look into one's heart, no shame (idiom); with a clear conscience
fickle in love; unfaithful / heart of a flower (pistil and stamen)
to one's heart's content (idiom)
loyal heart / loyalty
reluctance to leave this world / heart set on the mundane
lit. heart alarmed, body leaping (idiom); fear and trepidation in the face of disaster
to learn by heart; to memorize
to your heart's content
lit. to spit out one's heart and spill blood (idiom) / to work one's heart out / blood, sweat and tears
just as distance determines the stamina of a horse, so does time reveal a person's true heart (proverb)

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