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| | prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough | HSK 1 |
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| | half of the day / a long time / quite a while / midair / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | (of time) how long? / (not) a long time | HSK 2 |
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| | strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | long / (bound form) length / (bound form) strong point; forte / (bound form) to be good at / (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4]) | HSK 2 |
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| | road; path (CL: 條|条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | the whole year / all year long | HSK 2 |
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| | not long (after) / before too long / soon / soon after | HSK 2 |
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| | so long as; provided; if | HSK 2 |
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| | long term / long time / long range (of a forecast) | HSK 3 |
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| | Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur | HSK 3 |
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| | (of a period of time) long | HSK 3 |
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| | all day long / whole day | HSK 3 |
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| | long jump (athletics) | HSK 3 |
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| | for a long time; long since / (dialect) in the past | HSK 3 |
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| | root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL: 條|条 / radical (chemistry) | HSK 4 |
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| | (of sth long) wide; thick / (of sth granular) coarse / (of a voice) gruff / (of sb's manner etc) rough; crude; careless; rude | HSK 4 |
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| | long distance / long-distance phone call (abbr. for 長途電話|长途电话) / long-distance coach (abbr. for 長途汽車|长途汽车) | HSK 4 |
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| | to miss / to remember with longing / to long to see again | HSK 4 |
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| | at long last / finally / on the whole | HSK 5 |
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| | longevity / long-lived | HSK 5 |
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| | very long / endless | HSK 5 |
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| | (not) ever again; (not) any longer | HSK 5 |
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| | to thirst for / to long for | HSK 5 |
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| | stick / pole / lever / classifier for long objects such as guns | HSK 6 |
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| | thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科 / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions | HSK 6 |
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| | long-term / long-range | HSK 6 |
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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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| | long-distance running | HSK 6 |
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| | long vacation | HSK 6 |
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| | to go out somewhere (relatively short trip) / to set off on a journey (longer trip) | HSK 6 |
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| | long-time; long-term / lasting; enduring; permanent / for a long time | HSK 6 |
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| | no more; no longer | HSK 6 |
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| | (idiom) talking endlessly; long-winded | HSK 7-9 |
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| | expedition / long journey | HSK 7-9 |
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| | cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits | HSK 7-9 |
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| | journey / trip / expedition / to go on long campaign / to attack | HSK 7-9 |
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| | remote / long distance / long range | HSK 7-9 |
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| | iceberg / ice-covered mountain / (fig.) a backer one cannot rely on for long / CL: 座 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lasting / enduring / persistent / permanent / protracted / endurance / persistence / to last long | HSK 7-9 |
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| | deaf | HSK 7-9 |
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| | far-reaching / profound and long-lasting | HSK 7-9 |
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| | diaphysis (long segment of a bone) / fig. backbone | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to think of / to long for / to miss | HSK 7-9 |
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| | all day long; the whole day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) all day long / all the time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to extend as long as / to lengthen out to | HSK 7-9 |
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| | long and tedious / redundant / superfluous / supernumerary / verbose (of writing) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to postpone (with unfortunate consequences); to take too long (to do sth); to miss (a deadline or window of opportunity) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | long (tradition, history etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | from morning till night / from dawn to dusk / all day long | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (haven't done sth) for a long time / a long time since we last met | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) to be eager for / to long for / to look forward to | HSK 7-9 |
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| | honorific: I've long looked forward to meeting you. / It's an honor to meet you at last. | HSK 7-9 |
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| | long-winded / garrulous / to talk endlessly without getting to the point | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | not long ago / not long before | HSK 7-9 |
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| | deposits accumulated over long periods / fig. valuable experience, accumulated wisdom | HSK 7-9 |
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| | large amount / staple / influential family of long standing | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hope for / to long for / to expect | HSK 7-9 |
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| | for a long time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | height; level; (music) pitch / relative superiority / propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低) / no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc) / at long last | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution | |
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| | cautious and diligent all day long (idiom) | |
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| | lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom) / fig. revenge is a dish best served cold | |
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| | long narrow table | |
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| | a very long time (etymology: in mathematics, n represents an arbitrarily large number) | |
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| | one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell | |
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| | (courteous expression) you have made a long and exhausting journey / you will be making a long trip (when asking a favor that involves going to a faraway place) | |
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| | Long March (retreat of the Red Army 1934-1935) | |
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| | lasting for ages / long drawn out / remote in time or space / unhurried / a great number (of events) / preposterous / pensive | |
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| | handsome / large / long | |
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| | long life | |
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| | to simmer / soup made by simmering for a long time | |
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| | long time no see | |
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| | surname Long | |
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| | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)! / Your Majesty / His Majesty | |
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| | to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士 / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail | |
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| | (idiom) a long way in front; to lead by a wide margin | |
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| | (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing a video game (rather than pay for power-ups) | |
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| | a long-term plan / an ambitious strategy | |
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| | long-winded empty talk | |
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| | to miss / to long for | |
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| | one's thoughts fly to a longed-for place or person / to long for / infatuated / fascinated | |
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| | to carry out a long-range raid | |
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| | to travel a great distance by sea or air / voyage / long-haul flight | |
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| | a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth | |
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| | lane / alley | |
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| | tanystropheus, long-necked reptile from Triassic | |
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| | Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter | |
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| | covered in dust / dusty / lying unused for a long time | |
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| | rapids / waterfall / torrential (rain) | |
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| | hill / long and narrow highland / (used in place names) | |
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| | long-tail pheasant | |
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| | scenery in the distance / long-term prospects / (photography) long shot | |
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| | to go a long way away | |
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