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a man / a male / men / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
HSK 1
early youth / youngster / (literary) youth; young man
HSK 2
matching / fitting in with / compatible with / to correspond / to fit / to conform to / rapport / to coordinate with / to act in concert with / to cooperate / to become man and wife / to combine parts of machine
HSK 3
a man; a male
HSK 3
eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss
HSK 4
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
HSK 4
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  *末* | 末* | *末
tip / end / final stage / latter part / inessential detail / powder / dust / opera role of old man
HSK 4
man / gentleman
HSK 4
young man / young guy / lad / youngster / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love)
HSK 5
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  *拐* | 拐* | *拐
cane / walking stick / crutch / old man's staff
HSK 6
artificial / man-made / having human cause or origin / human attempt or effort
HSK 7-9
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
killer / murderer / hit man / (sports) formidable player
HSK 7-9
man-made / artificial / synthetic
HSK 7-9
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
man-made fiber (abbr. for 化學纖維|化学纤维)
HSK 7-9
the old man moves mountains (idiom); fig. where there's a will, there's a way
HSK 7-9
a sage / wise and holy man / virtuous ruler / Buddhist lama / wine
HSK 7-9
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
my God! / oh boy! / man!
HSK 7-9
old man / I (an old man referring to himself)
HSK 7-9
yes-man / opinionless person
primitive man; prehistoric human
Man Jiang Hong (Chinese poems)
wives and concubines (of a polygamous man) / harem
man
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  *翁* | 翁* | *翁
elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old)
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  *汉* | 汉* | *汉
man
old fellow / old man / father / husband
Pan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安, prominent Western Jin poet, also famous for his good looks, such that his name became a byword for "extremely handsome man"
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair
general / military leader / fierce man
rich man / moneybags
a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom)
scenic area near Xiangyang 襄陽|襄阳 in Hubei, known as the secluded mountainous location where Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 lived as a young man
man / fellow / (dialect) husband
man-eating (beast) / to eat people / fig. to oppress the people
Bole (a man who lived during Spring and Autumn Period, reputed to be able to spot a good horse) / a person who is good at spotting talent
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  *佬* | 佬* | *佬
male / man (Cantonese)
(of a woman) to marry a man of lower social status / to marry down
Zhou Bo (?-169 BC), military man and politician at the Qin-Han transition, a founding minister of Western Han
(coll.) man in power / boss / authority / expert
young generation / youth / young man
(video games) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) / battle royale game / last-man-standing game / to play PUBG (or similar game) / to win at PUBG (or similar game)
rule of man
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  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
to be particularly attentive to (an attractive young lady or man etc); to fawn upon (an influential politician etc); to court sb's favor; to ingratiate oneself
prehistoric man / primitive man
eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
(of a man) able and virtuous
elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
wise man
(dialect) father / old man / sir
man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature
married man; husband (as a social role)
(Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)
Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), Qing dynasty politician and military man
greasy food; oily food / (of food) greasy; oily; fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar
Man and Heaven / celestial being
a (real) man / boy / son
the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom) / influential figure
tiger cub / brave young man
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  *赘* | 赘* | *赘
(bound form) superfluous / (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's in-laws after marrying; (of the bride's parents) to have the groom join one's household
(idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand
to take a wife / to get married (man)
dad / father / (paternal) grandfather / old man
man-hour
sir (respectful form of address for an old man)
(derog.) girlfriend of a married man
ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
white man or woman; Caucasian
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  *耆* | 耆* | *耆
man of sixty or seventy
(man a post and) defend
man of steel / unyielding, tough guy
a two-man saw / fig. to-and-fro between two sides
man-made disaster
sage / wise man / clever and knowledgeable person
(in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service
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  *辇* | 辇* | *辇
(archaic) man-drawn carriage / an imperial carriage / to transport by carriage
talented man and beautiful woman / ideal couple
upright gentleman / man of honor
planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven (idiom); Man proposes but God disposes.
strong man / Hercules
old wifeless man; bachelor; widower
a Prince Charming; the man of one's dreams
virtuous person / a man of merit
best man; groomsman
I (spoken by an old man)
gangster; hoodlum / bachelor; single man / (dialect) wise person; astute person
lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom) / fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners / the life of a pasha
witch doctor / medicine man / shaman
able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)
(idiom) to be a yes-man
handsome young man
a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
(of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64
old man
Suleiman (name) / General Michel Suleiman (1948-), Lebanese military man and politician, president of Lebanon 2008-2014

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