| | water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水 and 水性) / (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy / (bound form) additional cost; extra income / classifier for washings of a garment | HSK 1 |
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| | ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people | HSK 1 |
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| | name (of a person or thing) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | name (of a thing) / name (of an organization) | HSK 2 |
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| | to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise | HSK 2 |
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| | name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people | HSK 2 |
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| | fish (CL: 條|条, 尾) / used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼, alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼 and octopi 章魚|章鱼) | HSK 2 |
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| | surname and given name; full name | HSK 2 |
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| | family name; surname / to be surnamed ... | HSK 2 |
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| | to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name) | HSK 2 |
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| | the head of an institution whose name ends in 院; chair of a board; university president; college dean; premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | list of names | HSK 2 |
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| | to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ) | HSK 2 |
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| | to sign up / to enter one's name / to apply / to register / to enroll / to enlist | HSK 2 |
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| | like that; in that way; to that extent / (before a number) ... or so; about ... / then; in that case | HSK 2 |
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| | evening newspaper / (in a newspaper's name) Evening News | HSK 2 |
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| | exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam | HSK 2 |
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| | representative / delegate / CL: 位, 個|个, 名 / to represent / to stand for / on behalf of / in the name of | HSK 3 |
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| | local / regional / district (not necessarily formal administrative unit) / region / area / as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | (bound form) general; overall / to sum up / in every case; always; invariably / anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理 or 總編|总编 etc | HSK 3 |
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| | roll call / to mention sb by name / (to call or praise or criticize sb) by name | HSK 4 |
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| | to register (one's name) | HSK 4 |
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| | hat / cap / (fig.) label / bad name / CL: 頂|顶 | HSK 4 |
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| | to raise one's head; to look up / (fig.) to begin to emerge; to show signs of growth / (commerce) account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc | HSK 5 |
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| | to sign (one's name with a pen etc) / to autograph / signature | HSK 5 |
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| | name / term of address / title | HSK 5 |
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| | to sign (one's name) / signature | HSK 5 |
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| | to sign one's name / to write brief comments on a document / inscribed bamboo stick (variant of 籤|签) / visa | HSK 5 |
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| | bronze medal / bronze plaque bearing a business name or logo etc / CL: 枚 | HSK 6 |
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| | Zhonghua, historical and cultural term for China, often used to denote Chinese civilization and identity (as in 中華文化|中华文化 "Chinese culture") / used in the official name of the Republic of China, 中華民國|中华民国 | HSK 6 |
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| | well-known for sth / to become well known / to make one's mark / to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | brand name / trademark | HSK 6 |
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| | place name / toponym | HSK 6 |
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| | name / titular / nominal / in name / ostensible purpose | HSK 6 |
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| | life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc | HSK 6 |
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| | to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming | HSK 7-9 |
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| | code name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units | HSK 7-9 |
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| | family name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to call out (a name etc) / to shout | HSK 7-9 |
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| | generic name for hemp, flax etc / hemp or flax fiber for textile materials / sesame / CL: 縷|缕 / (of materials) rough or coarse / pocked / pitted / to have pins and needles or tingling / to feel numb | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (used in place names) plain; flatland / (dialect) sandbar; shoal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the name of various contactless smart cards, notably Yikatong (mainly for public transport in Beijing) and iPASS (mainly for public transport in Taiwan) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735) | |
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| | surname Ji / family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代 (1046-256 BC) | |
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| | tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate | |
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| | Miura (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875) | |
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| | Guangzhou, old name for Huangchuan 潢川 in Xinyang 信陽|信阳, Henan / Gwangju Metropolitan City, capital of South Jeolla Province 全羅南道|全罗南道, South Korea | |
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| | the Qianlong era / Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王, personal name 弘曆|弘历, reigned 1735-1799 | |
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| | Charlotte (name) | |
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| | Cuenca (place name and surname) | |
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| | alternative name for Shanghai 上海 / alternative name for Xinyang City, Henan 信陽市|信阳市 | |
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| | (name) Clark or Clarke | |
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| | Li Ang, personal name of fifteenth Tang emperor Wenzong 文宗 (809-840), reigned 827-840 | |
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| | Yong'an, a county-level city in Sanming City 三明市, Fujian / Yong'an, the name of numerous other places | |
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| | surname Lu / place name | |
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| | scientific name / Latin name (of plant or animal) / (according to an old system of nomenclature) on entering school life, a formal personal name given to new students | |
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| | Li Zhi, personal name of third Tang emperor Gaozong 唐高宗, (628-683), reigned 649-683 | |
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| | Anna (name) | |
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| | bright / place name / stove | |
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| | (name) Jamie; Jim | |
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| | name of a mountain | |
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| | surname Cheng / short name for Chengdu 成都 | |
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| | Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc | |
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| | Wen River in northwest Sichuan (same as 汶川) / classical name of river in Shandong, used to refer to Qi 齊國|齐国 | |
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| | Reagan (name) / Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), US president (1981-1989) | |
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| | name / designation / item / rubric / (formal usage) fame | |
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| | used in 閩侯|闽侯 (the name of a place in Fujian) | |
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| | (slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.) | |
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| | used in place names | |
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| | translated names / transliteration | |
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| | to show one's face / to make one's good name / to become successful and well known / to shine | |
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| | Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗 (599-649), reigned 626-649 | |
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| | surname Luo / old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui) | |
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| | old name for Shanghai 上海 / surname Shen | |
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| | surname Qin / Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇 / short name for 陝西|陕西 | |
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| | surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history | |
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| | to name / to christen / to take a name | |
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| | to speak / to say / to name / to designate / meaning / sense | |
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| | (name of states and dynasties at several different periods) / surname Qi | |
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| | Sanlitun (Beijing street name) | |
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| | Carlos (name) | |
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| | the name of a state in the Zhou dynasty in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑, a county-level city in Henan / surname Zheng / abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州, the capital of Henan | |
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| | Zechariah (name) / Zechariah (Old Testament prophet) | |
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| | Victor (name) | |
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| | Rand or Randt (name) | |
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| | Blair (name) | |
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| | (used in names) / (bound form) (literary) bright / prosperous / splendid / genial | |
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| | Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008 | |
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| | spring mattress (loanword from "Simmons" bedding company name) | |
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| | name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album | |
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| | Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory | |
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| | lane (usually as part of a street name) / memorial archway | |
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