| | water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 會水｜会水 and 水性) / (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy / (bound form) additional cost; extra income / classifier for washings of a garment | HSK 1 |
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| | north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River | HSK 2 |
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| | to remit / to converge (of rivers) / to exchange | HSK 4 |
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| | river (CL: 條｜条, 道) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉 | HSK 2 |
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| | to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research | HSK 4 |
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| | south; southern direction / (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River | HSK 2 |
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| | (literary) tributary; branch of a river / clique; school; group; faction / (bound form) style; manner / to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by 一) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Π, π); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie | HSK 3 |
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| | 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 |
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| | bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL: 張｜张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc | HSK 1 |
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| | strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | road; path (CL: 條｜条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | to rise (of prices, rivers) | HSK 5 |
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| | to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ) | HSK 2 |
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| | horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent | HSK 6 |
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| | long river; (fig.) long flow of time | |
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| | (bound form) river / creek / plain / an area of level country | |
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| | river sand | |
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| | lower reaches (of a river) / lower level / lower echelon / downstream | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River | |
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| | thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科 / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions | HSK 6 |
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| | (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom | |
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| | branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei | |
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| | the Han river in Guangdong | |
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| | Tigris River, Iraq | |
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| | Changjiang River / Yangtze River | |
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| | to flow together / confluence (of rivers, airflow, roads) / (international) cooperation | |
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| | name of a river | |
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| | thawing and opening up of frozen river in spring | |
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| | Heilongjiang River / Amur River (the border between northeast China and Russia) | |
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| | Miluo River in Hunan province, tributary of the Xiang River 湘江, flows into Dongting Lake 洞庭湖 | |
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| | lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains / a vast territory (idiom) | |
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| | upper reaches (of a river) / upper level / upper echelon / upstream | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Amazon River | |
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| | shoals; rapids; treacherous section of a river | |
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| | fertile / rich / to irrigate / to wash (of river) | |
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| | north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom) / (fig.) all over China | |
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| | Loire River, France | |
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| | Volga River | |
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| | the surface of the river | |
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| | a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe) | |
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| | Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg) | |
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| | Amazon River | |
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| | water source / water supply / headwaters of a river | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Ili River in central Asia | |
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| | Yangtze River Delta | |
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| | rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power | |
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| | mountains and rivers / landscape | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Wanxian port city on the Changjiang or Yangtze river in Sichuan, renamed Wanzhou district in Chongqing municipality in 1990 | |
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| | the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant | |
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| | Sanjiang or Three rivers plain in Heilongjiang, vast wetland watered by Heilongjiang 黑龍江｜黑龙江 or Amur, Songhua 松花江, Ussuri 烏蘇里江｜乌苏里江 | |
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| | Pudong, a district of Shanghai to the east of the Huangpu River, full name 浦東新區｜浦东新区 | |
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| | Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang | |
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| | edge of the water / waterside / shore (of sea, lake or river) | |
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| | lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦｜刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽｜项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion | |
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| | rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠｜武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld | |
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| | as rivers Jing and Wei separate clearly (idiom) / to be entirely different | |
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| | rafting on the Yangtze River (abbr. for 長江漂流｜长江漂流) | |
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| | the Chanshui river in Henan | |
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| | large river (esp the Yellow River) | |
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| | source of Changjiang or Yangtze river | |
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| | (archaeology) Yangshao culture, a Neolithic culture (c. 5000–3000 BC) in the central Yellow River basin, known for painted pottery, millet farming and village settlements | |
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| | great valley / Grand Canyon of Colorado River | |
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| | lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess | |
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| | period of plentiful water supply, with increased river flow due to snowmelt or higher rainfall | |
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| | name of a river in Shanxi | |
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| | Luding Bridge over Dadu river 大渡河 in Sichuan, built by Kangxi in 1706, linking Luding county Sichuan Luding county 瀘定縣｜泸定县 with Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州 | |
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| | Po River, longest river in Italy | |
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| | (of trains) up (i.e. towards the capital) / (of river boats) to go against the current / to submit (a document) to higher authorities | |
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| | lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene | |
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| | the middle stretches of a river / middle level / middle echelon / midstream | |
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| | edge of the water / shore or sea, lake or river / seashore | |
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| | mussels / bivalves grown in rivers and lakes | |
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| | river bank | |
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| | West China (region in the upper reaches of Yangtze River and Sichuan Province) | |
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| | rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) / rhesus monkey / lit. river Ganges monkey of north India | |
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| | cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests / obliged to collaborate towards common goals | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Bund, a waterfront promenade in central Shanghai, running along the western bank of the Huangpu River | |
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| | to flow into / to converge (of river) / (computing) to import (data) | |
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| | Ganges River | |
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| | confluence (of two rivers) / junction (of roads) / (transport) interchange | |
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| | mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line / nowhere to go | |
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| | He river in Shandong | |
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| | riverside / river bank | |
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| | riverside / river plain | HSK 7-9 |
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| | region of China immediately south of the lower Yangtze River, including Shanghai and adjoining parts of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang / see 江南省 / see 江南區｜江南区 | |
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| | the Great Bend of the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia | |
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| | river bend | |
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| | river valley | |
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| | Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk / Heixiazi (black blind man) Island | |
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| | to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward | |
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| | Yitong River in Siping 四平, Jilin | |
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| | inward flowing (of river) / flowing into desert | |
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| | Mississippi River | |
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| | Dongjiang River | |
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| | along the river / the region around the river | |
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