| | coin / money / CL: 筆｜笔 / unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩｜两 | HSK 1 |
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| | front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293 年) / former / formerly | HSK 1 |
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| | thousand | HSK 2 |
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| | shallow / light (color) | HSK 4 |
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| | to owe / to lack / (literary) to be deficient in / (bound form) yawn / to raise slightly (a part of one's body) | HSK 5 |
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| | inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag | HSK 5 |
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| | to sign one's name / to write brief comments on a document / inscribed bamboo stick (variant of 籤｜签) / visa | HSK 5 |
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| | to lead along / to pull (an animal on a tether) / (bound form) to involve / to draw in | HSK 6 |
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| | lead (chemistry) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to move / to shift / to change (a position or location etc) / to promote | HSK 7-9 |
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| | surname Qian | |
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| | modest | |
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| | pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) | |
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| | hidden / secret / latent / to hide / to conceal / to submerge / to dive | |
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| | Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin | |
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| | pliers / pincers / to clamp | |
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| | surname Qian | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest) | |
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| | a drill (for boring through rock) | |
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| | stingy | |
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| | (bound form) to dispatch; to send / (bound form) to drive away; to dispel | |
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| | luxuriant growth | |
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| | name of a river flowing through Gansu to Shaanxi Province | |
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| | marsh / float | |
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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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| | thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral) | |
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| | to inlay / to embed / Taiwan pr. [qian1] | |
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| | dissatisfied | |
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| | pincers / pliers / tongs / claw (of animal) / to grasp with pincers / to pinch / to clamp / to restrain / to restrict / to gag | |
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| | (Minnan dialect) beside / near / (used in place names) | |
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| | planet Venus in the morning | |
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| | carry | |
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| | to seize / to pull / to hold up the hem of clothes | |
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| | Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司馬遷｜司马迁 refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史記｜史记 | |
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| | Qian'an, county-level city in Tangshan 唐山, Hebei | |
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| | Qian County in Xianyang 咸陽｜咸阳, Shaanxi | |
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| | to apologize / to regret / deficient | |
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| | fault / transgression | |
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| | history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian | |
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| | boatman's tow-rope | |
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| | name of a mountain | |
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| | Tao Qian or Tao Yuanming 陶淵明｜陶渊明 (c. 365-427), Jin dynasty writer and poet | |
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| | (literary) to hold high | |
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| | Qian'an county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin | |
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| | Qian Gorlos Mongol autonomous county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin | |
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| | used in 犍為｜犍为, a country in Sichuan | |
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| | (bound form) moat; chasm | |
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| | to censure / to reprimand | |
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| | all | |
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| | (of a bird) to peck / (fig.) to ridicule (sb) | |
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| | to lift (clothes, sheets) / lower garments | |
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| | luxuriant growth of bamboo | |
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| | (old) like / as | |
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| | to heat / to scorch | |
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| | Gorgon plant / fox nut (Gorgon euryale or Euryale ferox) / makhana (Hindi) | |
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| | lead along / substantial | |
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| | servant | |
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| | pelvic cavity / lower abdomen | |
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| | short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc) | |
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| | wooden tablet / edition | |
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| | abbr. for Guizhou province 貴州｜贵州 | |
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| | white | |
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| | used in 蕁麻｜荨麻 / also pr. [xun2] | |
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| | (literary) flat; level | |
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| | pliers / pincers / to clamp | |
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| | Rubus palmatus | |
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| | (arch.) firefly | |
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| | dismal / somber / also written 淒暗｜凄暗 | |
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| | character used in place names | |
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| | dark red color (of silk product) | |
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| | to act with reverence / reverent | |
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| | pouch / hold / content | |
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| | a field of three li / old variant of 阡 | |
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| | variant of 褰, to hold up the hem of clothes / to lift up the skirts | |
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| | Qian Xuesen (1911-2009), Chinese scientist and aeronautical engineer | |
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| | road leading north and south | |
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| | (usu. of an animal) the part of the side of the body between the ribs and the hipbone | |
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| | kilometer | |
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| | to carry on the shoulder | |
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| | big iron pot / cauldron / variant of 甑, rice pot | |
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| | Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC | |
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| | Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記｜史记, known as the father of Chinese historiography | |
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| | dismal / somber | |
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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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| | (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛｜陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary | |
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| | Qian Qi (c. 710-780), Tang Dynasty poet | |
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| | Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator | |
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| | Qian Qichen (1928-2017), former Chinese vice premier | |
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