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HSK
common / ordinary / general / average
HSK 2
regular / normal / ordinary
HSK 2
same / ordinary / so-so / common / general / generally / in general
HSK 2
ordinary / common / usually / ordinarily
HSK 2
Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
HSK 2
ordinary people / the "person in the street" / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
commonplace / ordinary / mediocre
HSK 6
usual; common; ordinary
HSK 7-9
ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged) / civilian (contrasted with the military)
HSK 7-9
room temperature / ordinary temperatures
HSK 7-9
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  *凡* | 凡* | *凡
ordinary / commonplace / mundane / temporal / of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels) / every / all / whatever / altogether / gist / outline / note of Chinese musical scale
HSK 7-9
out of the ordinary / unusually (good, talented etc)
HSK 7-9
flat / dull / ordinary / nothing special
HSK 7-9
ordinary person
HSK 7-9
golden mean (Confucianism) / (literary) (of person) mediocre / ordinary
HSK 7-9
ordinary day / everyday / ordinarily / usually
HSK 7-9
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street
HSK 7-9
unremarkable / nothing out of the ordinary
HSK 7-9
out of the ordinary / unusual
HSK 7-9
in the ordinary course of events; ordinarily; normally
HSK 7-9
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  *恒* | 恒* | *恒
permanent / constant / fixed / usual / ordinary / rule (old) / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes ()
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  *庸* | 庸* | *庸
ordinary / to use
untrained, inexperienced person; layman; amateur / ordinary person; non-celebrity
out of the ordinary / exceedingly (good)
to volatilize / to vaporize / to evaporate (esp. at ordinary temperatures) / (in compound words) volatile
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  *庶* | 庶* | *庶
(bound form) ordinary; numerous / (bound form) pertaining to a concubine (contrasted with )
cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
according to reason; in the ordinary course of events; normally
closely cropped hair; crew cut / (of people) common; ordinary
ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
ordinary / common / unimportant / idly / for no reason
ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
to gold-plate; to gild / (fig.) to make sth quite ordinary seem special
social stratum below the level of ordinary people / untouchable / dalit (India caste)
not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary
ordinary soldier
lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace
ordinary tones / everyday harmony / common chord
common people; ordinary folk
ordinary mail (as opposed to air mail etc)
good people / ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class)
outstanding / above the common / out of the ordinary
everyday routine / ordinary affairs
ordinary / mediocre
large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth / (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶 for mid-level cadres and 小灶 for the most privileged)
all levels of society / the imperial court and the ordinary people
ordinary / mediocre
plain; ordinary / vegan; vegetarian
ordinary person / mortal / earthling
ordinary / mediocre / nothing special
ordinary people / the hoi polloi / commoner
ordinary / average / medium / mid-range / moderate
to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
the sage presents as an ordinary person (idiom)
impressive / out of the ordinary
ordinary differential equation (ODE)
otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life
(neologism c. 2020) an ordinary guy who imagines he is God's gift to womankind
local train / ordinary vehicle
out of the ordinary
lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine
(slang) the norm; typical behavior; nothing out of the ordinary; just what you'd expect (often used ironically) (abbr. for 基本操作)
lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才
to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine
ordinary people / commoner / civilian
ordinary people / the masses
woman from an ordinary family
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
outstanding talent (idiom) / incomparable artistic merit / accomplishment out of the ordinary
Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人
ordinary provision (law)
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
out of the ordinary / outstanding / egregious
ordinary people; commoners
my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression); my humble point is a familiar opinion / what I say is really nothing out of the ordinary
my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression); my humble point is a familiar opinion / what I say is really nothing out of the ordinary
at ordinary times
an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the woods; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
an ordinary hermit lives in the seclusion of the wild; the true recluse chooses the city (idiom)
not much different / similar / ordinary / nearly
ordinary person / common people
nothing out of the ordinary / unglamorous
common people; ordinary people
(math.) pseudosphere, a surface in ordinary space of constant negative curvature
phase plane (math., ordinary differential equations)
phase space (math., ordinary differential equations)
(idiom) nothing special; ordinary
out of the ordinary / exceptional
ordinary person A; generic person; some random person


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