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| | li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇 and neighborhood 鄰|邻 levels | HSK 1 |
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| | computer / (Tw) calculator / CL: 臺|台 | HSK 2 |
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| | taxi / (Tw) rental car | HSK 2 |
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| | catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g | HSK 2 |
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| | wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club | HSK 2 |
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| | a copy of a film / film; motion picture; movie / (Tw) video; video clip / CL: 部 | HSK 2 |
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| | to arrange / to line up / file / series / (in data tables) column / (Tw) row | HSK 4 |
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| | to visit; to call on (a person or place) / (computing) to visit (a website); to access (a network resource etc) / (Tw) to interview (e.g. for a report or feature story) / CL: 次 | HSK 3 |
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| | potato / (Tw) peanut (CL: 顆|颗) | HSK 5 |
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| | pleasantly cool (weather etc) / to cool oneself; to cool off / (Tw) (slang) (of clothing) scanty; revealing / (coll.) to stay out of it; to butt out | HSK 2 |
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| | (bound form) row; line / (bound form) line of business; trade; profession / (bound form) commercial firm / (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row; (Tw) column / classifier for rows or lines | HSK 3 |
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| | journey; travel route; itinerary / distance of travel / course (of history) / stroke (of a piston) / (Tw) (computing) process | HSK 6 |
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| | to catch cold / (common) cold / CL: 場|场, 次 / (coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative) / (Tw) to detest / can't stand | HSK 3 |
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| | host; master of ceremonies; (TV or radio) presenter; anchor / (Tw) (research project) principal investigator (PI); program director | HSK 6 |
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| | (Tw) President Chain Store Corp., the operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain in Taiwan | |
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| | steamed bun with sweetened bean paste filling / (Tw) beancurd skin sheet folded into a small square packet shape then dried | |
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| | (Tw) personal information (abbr. for 個人資料|个人资料) | |
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| | (Tw) nightlife venue where hostesses wear themed uniforms (e.g. nurse, student, maid etc), often featuring a more openly flirtatious or physically intimate style of service | |
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| | baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒) | HSK 5 |
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| | (Tw) nightlife venue where hostesses wear their own casual clothes (as opposed to costumes or formalwear) | |
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| | used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 / (Tw) (coll.) what? | |
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| | to face; to turn towards; geared towards; catering for; -oriented / (Tw) aspect; facet | HSK 6 |
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| | (Tw) nightlife venue where hostesses wear formal evening gowns | |
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| | (Tw) Gothic / (Tw) Goethe (1749–1832), German poet and playwright | |
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| | (Tw) pengbing, a hollow bun lined with brown sugar (from Taiwanese 膨餅, Tai-lo pr. [phòng-piánn]) | |
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| | (Tw) Sherpa | |
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| | (Tw) to transition smoothly with no gap, interruption or adjustment period; to move directly from one position, stage or relationship to another; to dovetail seamlessly | |
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| | (Tw) liberal profession; profession practiced independently rather than as an employee | |
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| | (Tw) chief marketing officer (CMO) | |
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| | (Tw) seal of approval; certification mark (logo indicating compliance with specified standards) | |
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| | (Tw) to remove the background from an image | |
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| | (PRC) national civil service exam (abbr. for 國家公務員考試|国家公务员考试) / (Tw) national examination for civil service recruitment or professional licensing | |
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| | passenger transportation / (Tw) intercity bus | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cover; to spread over / a cover; a shade; a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住) to have things under control; to be able to handle it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (Tw) (esp. baseball) professional sports club (as a business entity) | |
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| | (Tw) associate technical specialist (a technical-staff rank in Taiwan's civil service) | |
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| | convenience store (Tw) | |
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| | Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar (Tw) | |
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| | (Tw) senior technical specialist (a technical-staff rank in Taiwan's civil service) | |
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| | (Tw) (coll.) menstruation (from "menstrual cycle") | |
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| | (Tw) (folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯 (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pua̍h-pue]) (equivalent to Mandarin 擲筊|掷筊) | |
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| | tweet (on Twitter) / (HK, Tw) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile / to reply to original poster (or recommend a post) on PTT bulletin board | |
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| | to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc) / (of a locality) to have a transportation service / (Tw) to commute | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia (Tw) | |
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| | (Tw) (of a teacher or parent volunteer) to perform student safety duty, guiding students and maintaining traffic order during arrival and dismissal | |
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| | thunder / (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷 land mine / (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound / (Tw) (coll.) spoiler / (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | |
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| | (Tw) (computing) denial-of-service attack (DDOS) | |
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| | (Tw) (of a film, TV drama etc) to end its run; to stop being shown | |
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| | (coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals) | |
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| | single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language) | |
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| | (Tw) Mercedes-Benz, German car maker | |
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| | (bound form) omen / to foretell / million; mega- / (Tw) trillion; tera- / (old) billion | |
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| | (bound form) shelves (for files); pigeonholes / (bound form) files / crosspiece (of a table etc) / (bound form) (of goods) grade / vendor's open-air stall / (Tw) timeslot for a show or program / classifier for shows / classifier for events, affairs etc / Taiwan pr. [dang3] | HSK 6 |
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| | Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起義|武昌起义 of October 10th, 1911 / (Tw) National Day | |
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| | (Tw) to divide up an area / to assign a spot; to allocate a seat / one's assigned spot | |
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| | junior high school (Tw) / abbr. for 國民中學|国民中学 | |
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| | the key (to solving a problem etc) / (Tw) (cryptography) key | |
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| | menstrual leave (Tw) | |
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| | fentanyl (loanword) (Tw) | |
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| | (coll.) (usu. in the negative) to be able to bear (doing sth); to feel it is acceptable / (Tw) to feel one cannot bear it; to feel bad about (doing sth) | |
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| | (Tw) assistant technical specialist (a technical-staff rank in Taiwan's civil service) | |
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| | (Tw) to combat (bullying, money laundering etc) / to counter | |
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| | (Tw) long-grained non-glutinous rice | |
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| | Mali (Tw) | |
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| | (Tw) Kurd ethnic group | |
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| | server (computer) (Tw) | |
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| | the skies above a certain place; (aviation) airspace / (Tw) topless | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (Tw) life skills education; education in practical, emotional, social and moral aspects of daily living | |
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| | (Tw) Matsusaka pork – premium cut of pork, usually from the neck or jowl, noted for its fine marbling and tenderness, named by analogy with Japan's famous Matsusaka beef, not by origin | |
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| | (Tw, HK) South Korea | |
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| | (Tw) to educate the public; to raise awareness | |
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| | (Tw) Mbabane, administrative capital of Eswatini | |
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| | to play house (Tw) | |
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| | electric-powered / (Tw) video game | HSK 6 |
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| | (Tw) value for money; bang for your buck | |
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| | 8:00 p.m. time slot (on television) / (Tw) (coll.) television drama series that airs in the prime time slot of 8:00 p.m. | |
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| | (Tw) evacuation to an air-raid shelter | |
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| | (Tw) (swimming) the crawl (front crawl stroke) | |
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| | (Tw) (coll.) mouthy; cocky and verbally provocative | |
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| | (Tw) to hike | |
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| | (Tw) (loanword) bassoon | |
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| | scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning / (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense / (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Gundam, Japanese animation franchise / (Tw) Gouda (cheese) | |
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| | the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during festivities) / (slang) (Tw) the first reply to a blog post etc | |
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| | to fasten / to button / button / buckle / knot / to arrest / to confiscate / to deduct (money) / discount / to knock / to smash, spike or dunk (a ball) / to cover (with a bowl etc) / (fig.) to tag a label on sb / (Tw) (loanword) code | HSK 6 |
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| | (Buddhism) (from Sanskrit "adhiṣṭhāna") blessings / (fig.) empowerment; boost; support; backing / to give one's blessing; to empower / (Tw) to hold an additional (passport etc) | |
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| | to pay one's respects by bowing with hands in front of one's chest clasping joss sticks, or with palms pressed together / (Tw) religious ceremony in which offerings are made to a deity | |
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| | to drive oneself somewhere / private vehicle / (Tw) self-driving car; autonomous car | |
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| | neptunium (chemistry) (Tw) | |
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| | (Tw) sanitary sewer system | |
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| | (Tw) highway interchange / (fig.) channel of communication | |
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| | (Tw) to contain / to include / to encompass | |
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| | (Tw) Zika virus | |
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| | synthetic resin; plastic cement / (Tw) plastic | |
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| | Michigan, US state (Tw) | |
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| | (Tw) disposable chopsticks | |
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| | (Tw) Star Wars | |
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| | strawberry / CL: 顆|颗 / (Tw) hickey / love bite | |
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