| | variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) | HSK 1 |
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| | novel / fiction / CL: 本, 部 | HSK 2 |
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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 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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| | fresh (experience, food etc) / freshness / novel / uncommon | HSK 4 |
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| | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting | HSK 5 |
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| | novel; new; exotic | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors) / (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon; to wield (sth magic) / (bound form) ceremony / (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë 夏洛特·勃良特 | |
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| | screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc) | |
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| | Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳｜罗琳 | |
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| | A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers from the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Fortress Besieged, 1947 novel by Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書｜钱钟书, filmed as a TV serial | |
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| | Ulysses (novel) | |
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| | to make a photographic reproduction of an image or document etc; a reproduction / to remake a movie or TV series; a remake / to adapt (a novel etc) as a movie; an adaptation | |
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| | Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content | |
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| | Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan Marsh in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, whose exploits include killing a tiger with his bare hands | |
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| | White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记) / (fig.) sly and cunning person | |
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| | chapter title (in a novel) | |
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| | golden cudgel, weapon wielded by Sun Wukong in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | to dramatize historical events / novel or play on historical theme | |
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| | main subject of long novel / true biography | |
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| | Nana (name) / Nana (1880 novel by Émile Zola) / Nana (Japanese manga series) | |
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| | cutting-edge (in technology, science, fashion, the arts etc) / novel and competitive / new and dashing | |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話｜评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | lianhuanhua (graphic novel) | |
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| | romantic love / romance / erotic (novel etc) | |
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| | wedge / peg / stopper / prologue (in some modern novels) / prologue or interlude in Yuan dynasty drama | |
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| | Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel | |
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| | Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case | |
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| | Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美 | |
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| | (of a movie, novel etc) portraying a love affair; romantic; sentimental | |
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| | Great Sage the Equal of Heaven, self-proclaimed title of the Monkey King Sun Wukong 孫悟空｜孙悟空 in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾 | |
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| | to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc) | |
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| | Dugu Qiubai, a fictional character appearing in 金庸 novels | |
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| | to eat meat after having maintained a vegetarian diet / (fig.) to do sth as a novel experience | |
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| | form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty | |
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| | distinct; different / separately; individually / unusual; novel / (pejorative) eccentric; bizarre | |
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| | Yellow Peril, political novel by Wang Lixiong 王力雄 | |
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| | number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number | |
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| | "Journey to the West", Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩｜吴承恩, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, also called "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey" | |
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| | The Shining (1980 Stanley Kubrick film from Stephen King's 1977 novel) / ChthoniC (Taiwanese metal band) | |
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| | (old) works of literature, including novels, plays etc | |
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| | Investiture of the Gods, major Ming dynasty vernacular novel of mythology and fantasy, very loosely based on King Wu of Zhou's 周武王 overthrow of the Shang, subsequent material for opera, film, TV series, computer games etc | |
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| | Rowling (name) / Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-), author of the Harry Potter series of novels | |
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| | online literature, esp. web novels (abbr. for 網絡文學｜网络文学) | |
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| | novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒｜新型冠状病毒) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19) | |
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| | Three Murder Cases Solved by Judge Dee, 1949 novel by R.H. van Gulik, featuring Tang Dynasty politician Di Renjie 狄仁傑｜狄仁杰 as master sleuth | |
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| | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 | |
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| | Pan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅 | |
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| | Li Kui, character in the novel Water Margin 水滸全傳｜水浒全传 | |
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| | the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, namely: A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢｜红楼梦, Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Demigods and Semidevils, wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its TV and screen adaptations | |
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| | "The Return of the Condor Heroes" (1959-61 wuxia novel by Jin Yong 金庸) | |
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| | Song Jiang, a principal hero of the novel Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传 | |
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| | Wei Wei (1920-2008), novelist and poet, author of award-winning novel The Orient 東方｜东方 about the Korean war | |
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| | Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 / Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠｜七龙珠 | |
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| | Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, wuxia ( 武俠｜武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations | |
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| | heroine (of a novel or film) / main female protagonist | |
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| | The Tale of Genji, classic Japanese novel by Murasaki Shikibu (c. 11th century) | |
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| | Ximen Qing, a fictional character in the novels "Jin Ping Mei" 金瓶梅 and "Water Margin" 水滸傳｜水浒传 | |
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| | to sideswipe (a car etc) / to generate (sparks) by striking a flint; (fig.) to produce (sth novel) through interaction | |
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| | murder mystery (novel); whodunit | |
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| | master (of the house) / main character in a novel etc / hero or heroine | |
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| | science fiction novel | |
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| | romance novel / romantic fiction | |
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| | The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶｜韩邦庆, long novel of lower life in Classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular / translated into Putonghua as 海上花 by Iris Chang | |
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| | "Red Poppies", novel by 阿來｜阿来 | |
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| | Observations on the Current State of Officialdom, late Qing novel by Li Baojia 李寶嘉｜李宝嘉 | |
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| | Ji Yun (1724-1805), Qing Dynasty writer, author of supernatural novel Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut 閱微草堂筆記｜阅微草堂笔记 | |
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| | Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content | |
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| | Vanity Fair (novel and magazine title) | |
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| | Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera | |
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| | Frankenstein (novel) | |
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| | Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记 | |
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| | Brave New World, novel by Aldous Huxley 阿道司·赫胥黎 | |
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| | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
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| | Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends / master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案 translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮｜高罗佩 | |
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| | Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut by Ji Yun 紀昀｜纪昀, novel of the supernatural / The Thatched Study of Close Scrutiny | |
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| | SHIBA Ryotarō (1923-1996), Japanese author of historical novels | |
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| | Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城｜围城 | |
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| | Bitter Herbs, 1958 novel by Feng Deying 馮德英｜冯德英, made into a film in 1965 | |
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| | Yao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成 | |
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| | The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize | |
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| | Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker / Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), nicknamed Vlad the Impaler or Dracula | |
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| | Peter Pan, the novel character | |
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| | La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克｜巴尔扎克 | |
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| | Legend of the Condor Heroes, wuxia ( 武俠｜武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations | |
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| | Li Ruzhen (c. 1763-c. 1830), Qing novelist and phonologist, author of fantasy novel Jinghua Yuan 鏡花緣｜镜花缘 or Flowers in the Mirror | |
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| | Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾｜乔治·奥威尔 / also translated 動物農場｜动物农场 | |
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| | A Flower in a Sinful Sea, late-Qing novel by Jin Tianhe 金天翮 and Zeng Pu 曾樸｜曾朴 | |
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| | the heroes of Liangshan Marsh (in the novel "Water Margin" 水滸傳｜水浒传) | |
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| | Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature / also written 水滸傳｜水浒传 | |
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