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HSK
not long (after) / before too long / soon / soon after
HSK 2
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  *早* | 早* | *早
early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely
HSK 1
(of time) how long? / (not) a long time
HSK 2
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  *皮* | 皮* | *皮
skin; peel; rind; outer layer / leather; hide; fur / cover; wrapping; outer covering / (of food) no longer crisp; soggy / (coll.) naughty; mischievous / pico- (10⁻¹²)
HSK 3
for a long time; long since / (dialect) in the past
HSK 3
half of the day / a long time / quite a while / midair / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *根* | 根* | *根
root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL: 條|条 / radical (chemistry)
HSK 4
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  *久* | 久* | *久
(of a period of time) long
HSK 3
so long as; provided; if
HSK 2
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  *龍* | 龍* | *龍
Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur
HSK 3
no more; no longer
HSK 6
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  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (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, shadows 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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  *老* | 老* | *老
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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough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
the whole year / all year long
HSK 2
long-term / long-range
HSK 6
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  *長* | 長* | *長
long / (bound form) length / (bound form) strong point; forte / (bound form) to be good at / (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])
HSK 2
(not) ever again; (not) any longer
HSK 5
to thirst for / to long for
HSK 5
to miss / to remember with longing / to long to see again
HSK 4
long-distance running
HSK 6
very long / endless
HSK 5
long river; (fig.) long flow of time
all day long / whole day
HSK 3
long-time; long-term / lasting; enduring; permanent / for a long time
HSK 6
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  *粗* | 粗* | *粗
(of sth long) wide; thick / (of sth granular) coarse / (of a voice) gruff / (of sb's manner etc) rough; crude; careless; rude
HSK 4
(haven't done sth) for a long time / a long time since we last met
HSK 7-9
all day long; the whole day
HSK 7-9
long-term; for a protracted period
HSK 3
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  *征* | 征* | *征
journey / trip / expedition / to go on long campaign / to attack
HSK 7-9
long-married couple
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  *條* | 條* | *條
strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
HSK 2
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
at long last / finally / on the whole
HSK 5
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  *肝* | 肝* | *肝
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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  *股* | 股* | *股
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 / 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
to flog a corpse / (fig.) to bring up sb's past failures or embarrassing moments long after the event has passed
to go out somewhere (relatively short trip) / to set off on a journey (longer trip)
HSK 6
long life
to go a long way away
long vacation
HSK 6
iceberg / ice-covered mountain / (fig.) a backer one cannot rely on for long / CL:
HSK 7-9
for a very long time
to think of / to long for / to miss
HSK 7-9
long-winded / garrulous / to talk endlessly without getting to the point
HSK 7-9
(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)
longevity / long-lived
HSK 5
(Tw) long-grained non-glutinous rice
high as the mountain and long as the river (idiom); fig. noble and far-reaching
lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush
long-winded / verbose
one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell
remote / long distance / long range
HSK 7-9
long-distance romance / long-distance relationship
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
long time no see
mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
HSK 7-9
in the past always / for a long time now / until now
well tested over a long period of time (idiom) / seasoned
long (tradition, history etc)
HSK 7-9
lit. to yearn for sth even in one's dreams (idiom) / fig. to deeply long for; to covet
from morning till night / from dawn to dusk / all day long
HSK 7-9
(coll.) to be eager for / to long for / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
(idiom) talking endlessly; long-winded
HSK 7-9
overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long / day and night
long jump (athletics)
HSK 3
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
to travel a great distance by sea or air / voyage / long-haul flight
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  *龍* | 龍* | *龍
surname Long
(coll.) all day long / all the time
HSK 7-9
long woven mat used to form a cylindrical grain bin
for a long time
HSK 7-9
(esp. of a mountain range) to be continuous; to stretch long and unbroken
to go the long way round / to take a circuitous route / (of a route) circuitous
large amount / staple / influential family of long standing
HSK 7-9
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
not long ago
(dialect) thermal undershirt; long underwear top
to meet again after a long period of separation
long and tedious / redundant / superfluous / supernumerary / verbose (of writing)
HSK 7-9
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a big rhombus (Tw)
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  *桿* | 桿* | *桿
stick / pole / lever / classifier for long objects such as guns
HSK 6
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  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
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
traveler (on a long journey) / participant in an expedition / garrison soldier / new recruit
deposits accumulated over long periods / fig. valuable experience, accumulated wisdom
HSK 7-9
not long ago / not long before
HSK 7-9
naturally-formed feet (as opposed to bound feet 小腳|小脚) / long kick (soccer) / Bigfoot (mythological animal)
lasting / enduring / persistent / permanent / protracted / endurance / persistence / to last long
HSK 7-9
soon / before long
for a long time
the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century / fig. a long and complicated story
already a long time
out of control / berserk / to go for a long walk
every single / as long as
to postpone (with unfortunate consequences); to take too long (to do sth); to miss (a deadline or window of opportunity)
HSK 7-9
far-reaching / profound and long-lasting
HSK 7-9
sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra
to wait for a long time
to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly / to long for sth

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