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  *气* | 气* | *气
gas; air / smell / weather / to make angry; to annoy; to get angry / vital energy; qi
HSK 2
flavor; taste / (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...) / (fig.) interest; delight / (dialect) smell; odor
HSK 2
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  *香* | 香* | *香
fragrant / sweet smelling / aromatic / savory or appetizing / (to eat) with relish / (of sleep) sound / perfume or spice / joss or incense stick / CL:
HSK 3
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  *浓* | 浓* | *浓
concentrated / dense / strong (smell etc)
HSK 4
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  *闻* | 闻* | *闻
to hear / news / well-known / famous / reputation / fame / to smell / to sniff at
HSK 2
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  *臭* | 臭* | *臭
stench / smelly / to smell (bad) / repulsive / loathsome / terrible / bad / severely / ruthlessly / dud (ammunition)
HSK 5
(fig.) to smell fishy
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  *股* | 股* | *股
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 / 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
breath / smell / odor / flavor
HSK 7-9
sense of smell
HSK 7-9
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
strong (taste, flavor, smell)
fragrance / bouquet / sweet smell / CL:
HSK 7-9
a moldy smell / damp and rotten / fig. rotten bad luck
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  *臭* | 臭* | *臭
sense of smell / smell bad
lit. when someone tells you you're fat, you pant (as if you were actually fat) (idiom) / fig. Hey! I pay you a compliment, and you start bragging! (typically jocular and teasing) / flattery, like perfume, should be smelled, not swallowed
lit. sth hits one in the face / directly in one's face / sth assaults the senses / blatant (advertising) / eye-catching / (a smell) assaults the nostrils
HSK 7-9
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  *喷* | 喷* | *喷
(of a smell) strong / peak season (of a crop) / (classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)
lit. sth hits one in the face / directly in one's face / sth assaults the senses / blatant (advertising) / eye-catching / (a smell) assaults the nostrils
stinky tofu / strong-smelling preserved beancurd / fig. rough exterior but lovable person
(adjective) non-Buddhist vegetarian (allowing strong-smelling vegetables like garlic and onions)
smell of alcohol / flavoring of rum or other liquor in food / aroma or nose (of wine)
strong smell of gunpowder / fig. tense situation / standoff
foul smell / stench / smell of urine
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  *荤* | 荤* | *荤
strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc) / non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc) / vulgar / obscene
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  *薰* | 薰* | *薰
sweet-smelling grass / Coumarouna odorata / tonka beans / coumarin
smelly / to smell bad
foul smell
to become tainted with the smell of sth else / to pick up an odor
evil smell / resentment / unpleasant manner
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  *味* | 味* | *味
taste / smell / (fig.) (noun suffix) feel / quality / sense / (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription
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  *嗅* | 嗅* | *嗅
to smell / to sniff / to nose
rotten (smell) / stinking / putrid
organic function; physical faculty; sense (of sight, hearing, smell etc)
(TCM) auscultation and smelling, one of the four methods of diagnosis 四診|四诊
(of a taste or smell) earthy
smelling salts
scent (smell of person or animal used for tracking)
cooking smells / (fig.) lively atmosphere
bad smell; foul odor
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  *茹* | 茹* | *茹
to eat / (extended meaning) to endure / putrid smell / vegetables / roots (inextricably attached to the plant)
to smell / to hear / knowledge / information
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  *臊* | 臊* | *臊
to smell of urine (or sweat etc)
to smell / to sniff sth out / to perceive by smelling
to smell, look and taste great
smell of gunpowder / (fig.) combative tone / belligerence
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  *腥* | 腥* | *腥
fishy (smell)
HSK 7-9
to identify by smell / to detect a scent / to sniff out
unpleasant smell / stink
to smell of sth / to smell like sth
strong (smell) / thick (fog)
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  *呛* | 呛* | *呛
to irritate the nose / to choke (of smoke, smell etc) / pungent / (coll.) (Tw) to shout at sb / to scold / to speak out against sb
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  *骚* | 骚* | *骚
(bound form) to disturb; to disrupt / flirty; coquettish / abbr. for 離騷|离骚 / (literary) literary writings; poetry / foul-smelling (variant of ) / (dialect) (of certain domestic animals) male


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