| | not long (after) / before too long / soon / soon after | HSK 2 |
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| | early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely | HSK 1 |
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| | (of time) how long? / (not) a long time | HSK 2 |
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| | 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 |
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| | for a long time; long since / (dialect) in the past | HSK 3 |
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| | half of the day / a long time / quite a while / midair / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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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 a period of time) long | HSK 3 |
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| | so long as; provided; if | HSK 2 |
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| | Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur | HSK 3 |
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| | no more; no longer | HSK 6 |
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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, 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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| | 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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough | HSK 1 |
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| | the whole year / all year long | HSK 2 |
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| | long-term / long-range | HSK 6 |
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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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| | (not) ever again; (not) any longer | HSK 5 |
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| | to thirst for / to long for | HSK 5 |
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| | to miss / to remember with longing / to long to see again | HSK 4 |
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| | long-distance running | HSK 6 |
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| | very long / endless | HSK 5 |
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| | long river; (fig.) long flow of time | |
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| | all day long / whole day | HSK 3 |
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| | long-time; long-term / lasting; enduring; permanent / for a long time | HSK 6 |
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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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| | (haven't done sth) for a long time / a long time since we last met | HSK 7-9 |
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| | all day long; the whole day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | long-term; for a protracted period | HSK 3 |
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| | journey / trip / expedition / to go on long campaign / to attack | HSK 7-9 |
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| | long-married couple | |
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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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| | 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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| | at long last / finally / on the whole | HSK 5 |
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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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| | 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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| | to flog a corpse / (fig.) to bring up sb's past failures or embarrassing moments long after the event has passed | |
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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 life | |
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| | to go a long way away | |
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| | long vacation | HSK 6 |
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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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| | for a very long time | |
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| | to think of / to long for / to miss | 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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| | (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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| | longevity / long-lived | HSK 5 |
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| | (Tw) long-grained non-glutinous rice | |
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| | high as the mountain and long as the river (idiom); fig. noble and far-reaching | |
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| | lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush | |
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| | long-winded / verbose | |
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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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| | remote / long distance / long range | HSK 7-9 |
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| | long-distance romance / long-distance relationship | |
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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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| | long time no see | |
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| | mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in the past always / for a long time now / until now | |
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| | well tested over a long period of time (idiom) / seasoned | |
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| | long (tradition, history etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to yearn for sth even in one's dreams (idiom) / fig. to deeply long for; to covet | |
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| | from morning till night / from dawn to dusk / all day long | 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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| | a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. | |
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| | (idiom) talking endlessly; long-winded | HSK 7-9 |
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| | overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long / day and night | |
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| | long jump (athletics) | HSK 3 |
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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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| | to travel a great distance by sea or air / voyage / long-haul flight | |
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| | surname Long | |
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| | (coll.) all day long / all the time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | long woven mat used to form a cylindrical grain bin | |
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| | for a long time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (esp. of a mountain range) to be continuous; to stretch long and unbroken | |
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| | to go the long way round / to take a circuitous route / (of a route) circuitous | |
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| | large amount / staple / influential family of long standing | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Ha Long Bay, Vietnam | |
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| | not long ago | |
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| | (dialect) thermal undershirt; long underwear top | |
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| | to meet again after a long period of separation | |
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| | long and tedious / redundant / superfluous / supernumerary / verbose (of writing) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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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| | stick / pole / lever / classifier for long objects such as guns | HSK 6 |
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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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| | traveler (on a long journey) / participant in an expedition / garrison soldier / new recruit | |
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| | deposits accumulated over long periods / fig. valuable experience, accumulated wisdom | HSK 7-9 |
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| | not long ago / not long before | HSK 7-9 |
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| | naturally-formed feet (as opposed to bound feet 小腳|小脚) / long kick (soccer) / Bigfoot (mythological animal) | |
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| | lasting / enduring / persistent / permanent / protracted / endurance / persistence / to last long | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soon / before long | |
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| | for a long time | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | already a long time | |
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| | out of control / berserk / to go for a long walk | |
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| | every single / as long as | |
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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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| | far-reaching / profound and long-lasting | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to wait for a long time | |
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| | to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly / to long for sth | |
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