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to promote sales
HSK 4
well-developed; flourishing / to develop; to promote; to expand / (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper
HSK 3
to promote (an idea or cause); to advance; boost
HSK 4
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  *升* | 升* | *升
to ascend; to rise / to promote; to elevate / liter / unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou )
HSK 3
to promote / to advocate
HSK 5
to implement; to carry out; to introduce (a policy, system, reform etc) / to promote; to advance (the practice of an art form, the use of a language etc) / to push along (a bicycle etc while walking)
HSK 5
to promote / to enhance / to further / to advance (a cause etc)
HSK 6
to help farmers (promote or sell their produce); to support the agricultural sector (through an economic policy etc)
to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
HSK 3
to promote (to a higher-ranking position) / to lift; to hoist / (fig.) to elevate; to raise; to improve
HSK 6
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
to go up by one grade; to be promoted / to escalate (in intensity) / (computing) to upgrade
HSK 6
to recommend (a product etc); to promote
to get promoted (at work etc) / promotion
to enhance / to promote / to enrich
HSK 7-9
to promote to a higher position
HSK 7-9
to promote to a higher job / to select for promotion
HSK 7-9
to uphold (e.g. justice or virtue) / to promote
HSK 7-9
Confucius Institute, organization established internationally by the PRC, promoting Chinese language and culture
(music) lead single; the main song promoted from an album
to get promoted
to develop and promote / to carry forward / to bring to great height of development
HSK 7-9
(sports, esp. soccer) newly promoted team (one that has advanced from a lower league to a higher league)
(of an employee) to be promoted to (a higher rank) / (of a student) to enter (a higher grade at school)
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  *升* | 升* | *升
to ascend; to rise (variant of ) / to promote; to elevate (variant of )
HSK 3
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  *升* | 升* | *升
to ascend; to rise (variant of ) / to promote; to elevate (variant of )
HSK 3
to advance to a higher-level position; to be promoted to a higher position in a new department
to promote to a higher post / (linguistics) rising intonation / (Chinese linguistics) rising tone
to promote and appoint
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  *迁* | 迁* | *迁
to move / to shift / to change (a position or location etc) / to promote
HSK 7-9
to agitate for / to enthusiastically promote
to contribute to; to promote
HSK 7-9
ideological and political education (abbr. for 思想政治教育) (state-directed education in China aimed at promoting Marxism, patriotism and socialist values, particularly in schools and universities – also, more broadly, ideological guidance in workplaces, media and public discourse)
to promote; to publicize; to market
to promote sleep
seat of honor / person in a high-ranking position / to be promoted to a more senior role / (genetics) epistatic
to be promoted to
to lobby / to campaign / to promote (an idea, a product) / (old) to visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period)
(neologism c. 2020) (of an Internet influencer etc) to showcase and promote products via live stream, providing links for viewers to make a purchase
to encourage and supervise (esp. state officials promoting agriculture)
to promote
to promote (sb) / to upgrade / to ascend
to promote urination / diuresis
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  *晋* | 晋* | *晋
to move forward / to promote / to advance
to promote ripening of fruit
to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom)
(music) theme; principal melody / (fig.) central theme; main idea / (of a movie) created with the purpose of promoting Party values and point of view
to promote estrus / to bring an animal to heat by artificial means
to make more youthful / to promote younger staff
to promote friendly relations
to promote lactation (TCM) / (coll.) underboob
to be promoted / additional government post
China Association for Promoting Democracy (abbr. for 中國民主促進會|中国民主促进会)
(Tw) serving chopsticks and serving spoons used in communal dining to promote hygiene
to promote again / reappointed
incantation (Sanskrit: dharani) / religious chant (promoting virtue and obstructing evil)
studying the old to promote the new (idiom)
to reassign a cadre / to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre
to promote / to reinstate (in a position or job)
"transparent kitchen" – a kitchen (in a restaurant, school cafeteria etc) in which food preparation processes are made visible to customers (by means of transparent glass, live video etc) to promote hygiene and ensure accountability in food safety practices
to promote sex and violence / to stir up lust and covetousness
to promote lactation / to stimulate lactation (e.g. with drug)
to draw water / (fig.) to promote sb to a more senior position
(of medicine or food) to relieve constipation; to promote bowel movement
to promote agriculture
(Internet slang) transcription of "not at all" – English words in a song promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics sung by Huang Xiaoming 黃曉明|黄晓明, who became a laughing stock in China because his pronunciation was perceived as embarrassingly bad / to be a laughing stock / to make a fool of oneself (i.e. equivalent to 鬧笑話|闹笑话)
lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital of in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of as "promote the wise"
to promote lactation / to stimulate lactation (e.g. with drug)
to promote / to publicize
to promote a martial spirit / to revere military skills / warlike
to promote what is useful and get rid of what is harmful (idiom)
to stir up lust / to promote sex / to encourage licentiousness
to get oneself promoted to a higher rank
to produce milk; to lactate / to promote lactation
to restrict access to a mountainous area to promote natural forest regeneration
promotion / to promote / to introduce and recommend
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  *掖* | 掖* | *掖
to support by the arm / to help / to promote / at the side / also pr. [yi4]
to restrict access to a sandy area to promote natural forest regeneration
China Association for Promoting Democracy (one of the non-Communist political parties in China)
to boost support or interest / to campaign / to promote
to promote (to official position in former times)
Li Ao (774-836), Tang dynasty scholar and writer, colleague of Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈 in promoting classical writing 古文運動|古文运动
to demand; to call for; to petition / demand; wish; request / to promote one's brand; to appeal to (consumers) / (marketing) message; pitch
(literary) to be promoted more than one grade or rank at a time / to be promoted ahead of time
to set sth upright or straight / to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal) / (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
(theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene) / (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly
(TCM) to promote the secretion of saliva
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  *陟* | 陟* | *陟
to advance / to ascend / to promote
uniform invoice, a standardized government-issued invoice used in Taiwan for recording financial transactions, including purchases and sales, and also serving as a ticket for a lottery program to promote transparency and tax compliance
to reward and promote
to get through by luck / to be promoted by a fluke
to reward and promote
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  *貤* | 貤* | *貤
to promote / to reward
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  *擢* | 擢* | *擢
to pull out / to select / to promote
fertilizer for potted flowers / fertilizer used to promote flowering in crop plants
envoy charge with promoting agriculture (in Han dynasty)


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