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romance; love (romantic) / CL:
HSK 2
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  *疼* | 疼* | *疼
(it) hurts; sore / to love dearly
HSK 2
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  *爱* | 爱* | *爱
to love; to be fond of; to like / affection / to be inclined (to do sth); to tend to (happen)
HSK 1
to like / to love / to be fond of / favorite
HSK 4
compassion / kindness / care for others / love / CL: / charity (bazaar, golf day etc) / heart (the symbol ♥)
HSK 3
to love ardently / to adore
HSK 3
children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love)
HSK 5
(romantic) love / CL: 個|个, 場|场 / in love / to have an affair
HSK 5
to love one's country / patriotic
HSK 4
to cherish / to treasure / to take care of / to love and protect
HSK 4
to love dearly / to feel sorry for sb / to regret / to grudge / to be distressed
HSK 5
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  *春* | 春* | *春
spring (season) / gay / joyful / youthful / love / lust / life
(of alcohol, love etc) to go to one's head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head; to capture one's attention / (old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait)
peach blossom / (fig.) love affair
HSK 5
philharmonic (used in names of orchestras) / to love music (used in compounds like 愛樂者|爱乐者 "music enthusiast")
affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
HSK 7-9
love song
(idiom) to pledge eternal love; to exchange marriage vows
to lose one's love / to break up (in a romantic relationship) / to feel jilted
HSK 7-9
to like / fond of / to prefer / to love / one's tastes / preference
HSK 7-9
to love to hear and see (idiom) / well received / to one's liking
pink / peach color / illicit love / sexual
to suffer the painful loss of (a loved one etc) / to miss out on (an opportunity) / to fail to gain (victory etc)
strawberry / CL: 顆|颗 / (Tw) hickey / love bite
terms of endearment / words of love
(idiom) to be on very good terms with each other / to hit it off with sb / to be passionately in love with each other / to carry on intimately with / (of trading, conflict etc) to be in full swing
first love
profound love, generous friendship (idiom)
excess fat on the waist; love handles
deep emotion; deep feeling; deep love / affectionate; loving
HSK 7-9
to love dearly; to dote on (sb)
enemy / foe / (in opera) sweetheart or destined love
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground / tricky and inconstant / to make love
love between an older woman and a younger man
maternal love
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  *宠* | 宠* | *宠
to love / to pamper / to spoil / to favor
HSK 7-9
to respect and love; to hold in high esteem
HSK 7-9
triangular relationship; (esp.) a love triangle
to cease to feel a sense of loyalty (or gratitude etc) to sb or sth / to fall out of love with sb
to show love and compassion for all humankind
everyone loves beauty (idiom)
to make love
love and marriage
to feel a mixture of love and hate
rival in love
to be in love when one is too young; puppy love
feelings of first love
to pledge undying love (idiom); oath of eternal love / to swear by all the Gods
to admire wholeheartedly / to fall in love with
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  *恋* | 恋* | *恋
to feel attached to / to long for / to love
to have no opportunity / no way (of doing sth) / no chance / no connection / not placed (in a competition) / (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
HSK 7-9
homosexuality / gay person / gay love
former love / former circumstances
predestined love / love affinity
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom) / fig. avaricious / tightfisted
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
friendly affection / fraternal love
loss of love / breakup of a relationship
in love with / to feel deeply attached to
to make love
sweetheart / one's true love / the person of one's thoughts
beginning of spring / thoughts of love
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  *醋* | 醋* | *醋
vinegar / jealousy (in love rivalry)
HSK 6
love hotel
to pass on amorous feelings / to send one's love to sb
lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected / Love me, love my dog.
lit. in every trade, a master appears (idiom); fig. You can produce outstanding achievements in any task, provided you put it enough love and diligence
loved by all / to have universal appeal
love triangle
to announce publicly / to explain oneself / to reveal one's feelings / to confess / to declare one's love
a couple engaged in an illicit love affair / a cheating couple
to love each other
(lit.) love aperture / (fig.) interest in love matters
the five emphases, four beauties and three loves (PRC policy introduced in 1981, including emphasis on manners, beauty of language and love of socialism)
the person one loves the most; one's most treasured possession
(idiom) to be faithful to the ruler and love one's country
to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman / to be jealous of a rival in a love affair
Jia Baoyu, male character in The Dream of Red Mansions, in love with his cousin Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 but obliged to marry Xue Baochai 薛寶釵|薛宝钗
to love and respect / love and respect
"universal love", principle advocated by Mozi 墨子, stressing that people should care for everyone equally
to have a love-hate relationship with each other
to carry on a clandestine love affair
fickle in love; unfaithful / heart of a flower (pistil and stamen)
to love dearly
love song
women love bad guys
romance (loanword) / love affair
true love
hungry and thirsty / (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc)
to get excited / passionate / aroused to passion / to fall in love / on heat (of animals)
love nest
premature death of a budding talent / those whom the Gods love die young
lit. the falling flowers are yearning for love, but the heartless brook ripples on (idiom) / fig. one side is willing, yet the other one remains indifferent (usually of unrequited love)
loving affection (in a couple) / conjugal love
love is more solid than gold (idiom)
snare of love
to love sth too much to part with it (idiom)
otome game – a romance simulation game targeted at women, typically featuring female protagonists and multiple male love interests (abbr. for 乙女遊戲|乙女游戏)

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