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  *干* | 干* | *干
(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 / (archaic) shield
HSK 1
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  *先* | 先* | *先
beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
HSK 1
individual / personal / oneself
HSK 3
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  *乘* | 乘* | *乘
to ride / to mount / to make use of / to avail oneself of / to take advantage of / to multiply (math.) / Buddhist sect or creed
HSK 5
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  *自* | 自* | *自
(bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course
HSK 4
oneself; (attributive) one's own
HSK 2
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  *搬* | 搬* | *搬
to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately
HSK 3
to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end
HSK 5
convenient; suitable / to facilitate; to make things easy / having money to spare / (euphemism) to relieve oneself
HSK 2
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  *投* | 投* | *投
to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc) / to cast (a ballot) / to cast (a glance, a shadow etc) / to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine) / to send (a letter, a manuscript etc) / to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide) / to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of / (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
HSK 4
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
pleasantly cool (weather etc) / to cool oneself; to cool off / (Tw) (slang) (of clothing) scanty; revealing / (coll.) to stay out of it; to butt out
HSK 2
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
proud of oneself / pleased with oneself / complacent
HSK 4
itself / oneself / one's own
HSK 3
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  *猫* | 猫* | *猫
cat (CL:隻|只) / (dialect) to hide oneself / (loanword) (coll.) modem
HSK 2
alone / by oneself / on one's own
HSK 4
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  *寄* | 寄* | *寄
to entrust; to place in sb's care / (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily / (bound form) foster (as in 寄女 foster daughter) / to send by post; to mail
HSK 4
eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss
HSK 4
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  *美* | 美* | *美
beautiful / very satisfactory; good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself
HSK 3
I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
HSK 5
to have confidence in oneself / self-confidence
HSK 4
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  *扑* | 扑* | *扑
to throw oneself at / to pounce on / to devote one's energies / to flap / to flutter / to dab / to pat / to bend over
HSK 6
to take care of oneself
HSK 7-9
lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom) / fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
HSK 7-9
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  *借* | 借* | *借
to borrow / (used in combination with 給|给 or etc) to lend / to make use of; to avail oneself of / (sometimes followed by 著|着) by; with
HSK 2
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  *忍* | 忍* | *忍
to bear / to endure / to tolerate / to restrain oneself
HSK 5
to throw into / to put into / to throw oneself into / to participate in / to invest in / absorbed / engrossed
HSK 4
to be situated at / to find oneself at
HSK 5
a skill / mastery of a trade / by oneself / without outside help
HSK 7-9
to set oneself against / to oppose / to make a pair
HSK 7-9
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  *赶* | 赶* | *赶
to overtake; to catch up with / to hurry; to rush / to try to catch (the bus etc) / to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away / to avail oneself of (an opportunity) / until; by (a certain time)
HSK 3
to toughen / to temper / to engage in physical exercise / to work out / (fig.) to develop one's skills / to train oneself
HSK 4
to experience for oneself
HSK 3
the self; oneself; self- / (psychology) ego
HSK 6
personally / in person / oneself
HSK 3
to pretend to be (asleep etc) / to disguise oneself as / pretense / disguise / (military) to camouflage / camouflage
HSK 7-9
to kill oneself / to commit suicide / to attempt suicide
HSK 5
to conduct oneself / behavior; conduct; personal character
HSK 7-9
to surrender oneself for execution; (fig.) to come forward to take the blame; to face punishment
to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself
HSK 4
to improve one's appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery) / to make oneself more attractive / to beautify
HSK 6
to pit oneself against sb / to compete with sb / contest / battle / to haggle / to quibble
HSK 7-9
to realize; to be aware of; to feel that; to be conscious of (sth relating to oneself) / responsible; predisposed to do the right thing; considerate of others
HSK 3
person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character
HSK 7-9
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
HSK 5
by oneself (without assistance) / alone (without company)
to approve of / to endorse / to acknowledge / to recognize / to identify oneself with
HSK 6
to play (as children do) / to amuse oneself
HSK 7-9
the way one carries oneself
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  *扶* | 扶* | *扶
to support with the hand / to help sb up / to support oneself by holding onto something / to help
HSK 5
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  *闯* | 闯* | *闯
to rush / to charge / to dash / to break through / to temper oneself (through battling hardships)
HSK 5
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  *伏* | 伏* | *伏
to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt
to push oneself forward / to seek fame / to be in the limelight / same as 出鋒頭|出锋头
HSK 7-9
to believe oneself infallible (idiom) / to be opinionated
HSK 7-9
to compete against / to measure oneself against / to go head to head (see who is best)
to amuse oneself / to have fun / to go sightseeing / to take a stroll
HSK 6
to make a fool of oneself
HSK 7-9
direct / concerning oneself / personal
HSK 7-9
to enter oneself for an examination
HSK 6
to be a good fit / to be identical with / to adjust oneself to / to fit in
HSK 7-9
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  *扮* | 扮* | *扮
to disguise oneself as / to dress up / to play (a role) / to put on (an expression)
HSK 7-9
to believe (sth in relation to oneself) / to regard oneself as / to acknowledge (sth in relation to oneself) / to resign oneself to
(idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize
HSK 6
wholeheartedly / (to devote oneself) heart and soul
to contradict oneself / self-contradictory / inconsistent
HSK 7-9
to take care of a matter all by oneself / to run the whole show
to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself
to exert oneself
to worry oneself sick / to fret
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect
HSK 7-9
automated / automatically regulated / to control oneself / self-control
to engage with secular society / to involve oneself in human affairs / to join the WTO (abbr. for 加入世界貿易組織|加入世界贸易组织)
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  *忧* | 忧* | *忧
to worry / to concern oneself with / worried / anxiety / sorrow / (literary) to observe mourning
to pretend / to feign / to disguise oneself
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
to lie prostrate; to prostrate oneself (in veneration)
to make progress / to do better / fig. ambitious to improve oneself / to move forwards
to liken oneself to (sb or sth)
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  *妆* | 妆* | *妆
(of a woman) to adorn oneself / makeup / adornment / trousseau / stage makeup and costume
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul
HSK 7-9
to decorate; to adorn; to dress up / to disguise oneself
HSK 7-9
to adhere / to attach oneself to / to append
to give up / to admit failure / to drop the matter / to reconcile oneself to loss / to have no more illusions about
HSK 7-9
to be willing to / to resign oneself to
HSK 7-9
to keep one's emotions inside oneself / to restrain one's emotions
(idiom) (of one's circumstances) beyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; (of one's actions) not subject to conscious control (i.e. done in spite of oneself)
HSK 7-9
to be worthy of / to deserve to be called / to prove oneself to be
to warm oneself (by a fire, heater etc)
HSK 7-9
to feign / to pretend to be / to pass oneself off as
HSK 7-9
(Internet slang) to post a photo of oneself online
to do sth oneself
to temper oneself / to steel oneself / self-discipline / endurance
mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
HSK 7-9
one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with) / subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself) / belonging to / affiliated / under one's command
HSK 7-9
to be oneself
not to become attached to material things, not to pity oneself
independent / self-reliant / self-sustaining / to stand on one's own feet / to support oneself
HSK 7-9
to conduct oneself in society

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