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| | down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action | HSK 1 |
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| | to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid | HSK 2 |
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| | to pass / to spend (time) / measure / limit / extent / degree of intensity / degree (angles, temperature etc) / kilowatt-hour / classifier for events and occurrences | HSK 2 |
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| | way of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem / CL: 條|条, 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | exterior surface / family relationship via females / to show (one's opinion) / a model / a table (listing information) / a form / a meter (measuring sth) | HSK 2 |
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| | to ascend; to rise / to promote; to elevate / liter / unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou 斗) | HSK 3 |
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| | survey / to measure / to gauge / to determine | HSK 4 |
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| | to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action) / to take | HSK 3 |
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| | ruler (measuring instrument) / CL: 把 | HSK 4 |
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| | (bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly / (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat / (bound form) to put in order; to straighten / (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate / (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb / (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to | HSK 3 |
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| | unit (of measure) / unit (group of people as a whole) / work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | to measure | HSK 4 |
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| | a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL: 支, 把 | HSK 4 |
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| | to survey / to measure / to conjecture | HSK 4 |
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| | strong medicine; potent remedy / (fig.) drastic measure | |
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| | move; act; measure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to compete against / to measure oneself against / to go head to head (see who is best) | |
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| | scale for measuring body weight; bathroom scale | |
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| | to take measures to prevent miscarriage | |
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| | in advance / before it happens (cf preventative measures) / forestalling | |
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| | appearance / bearing / meter (i.e. measuring instrument) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to take sb's measurements / to measure sb up | |
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| | safety measure; precaution / (coll.) (euphemism) contraception; protection | |
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| | old system / weights and measures of former times | |
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| | to oppose corruption / anti-graft (measures, policy etc) | |
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| | 100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗 | |
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| | scale for measuring body weight; bathroom scale | |
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| | to measure time / to time / to reckon by time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to crack down on / to take severe measures against | |
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| | system of weights and measures | |
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| | to oppose each other with equal harshness (idiom); tit for tat / measure for measure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to size sb up / to look sb up and down / to take the measure of / to suppose / to reckon | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to have a competition / to measure with one's hand or arm / to make a gesture of measuring | HSK 7-9 |
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| | so pleased as to lose one's sense of measure / beside oneself with joy | |
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| | to strike a severe blow / to crack down / to take strong measures | |
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| | to take measures to mitigate the impact of disasters (including prevention, preparation, and support for stricken communities) | |
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| | anti-infiltration (measures taken against subversive external forces) / (chemistry) reverse osmosis | |
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| | to determine (by measuring or surveying) | HSK 6 |
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| | measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male | |
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| | tape measure (usu. retractable) / CL: 把 | |
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| | to measure distance | |
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| | to measure speed | |
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| | quantity; weight; measure / (fig.) weight (importance, prestige, authority etc); (of written material) density | HSK 7-9 |
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| | earthquake intensity (measure of its destructive power) | |
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| | scale (instrument for weighing) / to weigh / (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams) / (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type) / (Tw) (printing) pound; ream weight (used to describe paper thickness) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word | |
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| | Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion) | |
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| | to overstep the bounds of what is proper / to take sth too far / (of a measuring device) to go off the scale | |
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| | measures of national income and output | |
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| | immunization injection / fig. forewarning / heads-up / preventive measure | |
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| | lit. ferry bridge / fig. interim measure over some difficulty / a guide | |
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| | to brandish (a figurative weapon, i.e. some measure intended to deal with the situation); to resort to (some tactic) | |
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| | not take a proper measure of oneself / to overrate one's own abilities | |
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| | to take preventative measures; to guard against accident or disaster | |
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| | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies | |
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| | to receive in no small measure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | capacity / quantity / amount / to estimate / abbr. for 量詞|量词, classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word | |
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| | lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter / scrupulous attention to detail | |
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| | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies | |
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| | verbal classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word applying mainly to verbs | |
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| | to measure / measurement | |
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| | counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation | |
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| | gauge / measuring tool | |
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| | stratagem of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift plan / interim step | |
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| | measure (math.) | |
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| | to calibrate (measure or apparatus) / fixed coefficient | |
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| | to measure / measurement | |
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| | inestimable / incalculable / beyond measure | |
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| | liter and decaliter dry measure / (fig.) meager quantity of foodstuff | |
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| | measure / tolerance / breadth / magnanimity / (math.) metric | |
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| | to measure temperature | |
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| | universal bevel (to measure angles) | |
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| | an emergency measure | |
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| | volt-ampere (measure of apparent power in alternating current circuits) | |
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| | measuring device | |
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| | to weigh oneself; to measure sb's weight | |
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| | to be adjusted to uniformity (usually of weights and measures) (idiom) | |
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| | dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] | |
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| | to oppose smuggling / anti-contraband (measures, policy etc) | |
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| | "legal quotient" (LQ), a measure of one's awareness and knowledge of the law and one's standard of honorable conduct | |
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| | steel set square (tool to measure right angles) | |
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| | high-handed (measures) / with a heavy hand | |
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| | tape measure | |
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| | nominal classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word applying mainly to nouns | |
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| | annoyed and amused in equal measure | |
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| | (law) residential surveillance at a designated location (PRC legal measure confining suspects to government-assigned residences under continuous monitoring) (abbr. for 指定居所監視居住|指定居所监视居住) | |
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| | lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure | |
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| | a combination of punches / (fig.) a set of measures | |
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| | measuring vessel / measuring apparatus | |
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| | range (of scales or measuring equipment) | |
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| | scale for measuring body weight; bathroom scale | |
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| | anti-seismic measures / seismic defenses / earthquake resistant | |
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| | potency / titer (measure of effective concentration in virology or chemical pathology, defined in terms of potency after dilution by titration) / valence (perceived value in psychology) / valency | |
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| | measure in traditional Chinese music / orderliness | |
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| | plan of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift stratagem / interim step | |
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| | to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat | |
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| | soft measuring tape (non-retractable type used for body measurements etc) | |
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| | to take drastic measures to deal with a situation / to pull the carpet from under sb | |
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