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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *在* | 在* | *在
to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
HSK 1
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
progress; improvement / to improve; to progress / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *着* | 着* | *着
aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
HSK 1
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  *还* | 还* | *还
still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else
HSK 1
to make headway; to make progress
HSK 3
(of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway / (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) / (of an army etc) to be on the march; to advance
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肝* | 肝* | *肝
liver (CL:葉|叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy
HSK 6
lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
uphill road / slope up / fig. upward trend / progress
to progress to (a higher-level school)
to make progress / to do better / fig. ambitious to improve oneself / to move forwards
to advance singing loudly (idiom); triumphant progress
it's better to make slow progress than no progress at all (proverb)
man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom) / one should constantly strive to make progress
material and spiritual culture / matter and mind / material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)
to spur on / to urge on / to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)
HSK 7-9
(coll.) (gaming) to progress to the next level / to level up
daily renewal, monthly change (idiom) / every day sees new developments / rapid progress
HSK 7-9
remarkable (progress, improvement, expansion etc)
HSK 7-9
lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will
battlefield situation / battle progress
to overtake on a bend (driving) / (fig.) taking opportunity of tight corners to make swift progress (economy etc)
depth (from front to rear) / depth (into a territory) / span (of time) / (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc)
HSK 7-9
(computing) progress bar
to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day / more (or better etc) with each passing day
to forge ahead vigorously / to dedicate oneself to progress
gradual progress / to go forward one stage at a time
rate of progress
HSK 7-9
progress step by step / gradual progress / to move forward (slowly)
in sequence, step by step (idiom); to make steady progress incrementally
HSK 7-9
Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851)
solid progress
every day sees new developments (idiom) / to make constant progress
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy / a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
to learn to walk / (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress / to get started on the learning curve
evolution / gradual forward progress
one step, one footprint (idiom); steady progress / reliable
term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气 and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气
neck of a bottle / (fig.) bottleneck / problem that impedes progress
HSK 7-9
in constant progress
rapid progress
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *邅* | 邅* | *邅
not making progress
to make progress while ensuring stability
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
to make progress / progress
(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress / (of media) to propagate errors / to lead people astray
to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school
lit. morning bell, evening drum, symbolizing monastic practice (idiom); fig. encouragement to study or progress
(literary) making no progress
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捗* | 捗* | *捗
to make progress
constantly increasing without limit (idiom); rapid progress in all directions
progress / to advance
progress chart; schedule
to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong (abbr. for 民主建港協進聯盟|民主建港协进联盟)
lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom) / fig. to move at a snail's pace / to make slow progress
to push back (progress, the times etc)
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong
to leap forward / to make rapid progress / a leap forward
progress / prospect of solution / sign of positive outcome
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
progress seems like regress (the Book of Dao 道德經|道德经, Chpt. 41)
progress seems like regress (alternative wording for 進道若退|进道若退)
Progress (name of Russian spaceship)
to hinder progress
(ancient Chinese astrology) Yuebei, a heavenly body postulated to exist at the apogee of the Moon's orbit, hindering the Moon's progress
income / (literary) improvement / progress
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烝* | 烝* | *烝
multitudinous / the masses / to present (to sb) / to rise / to advance / to progress / archaic variant of


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