| | thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal | HSK 4 |
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| | flour / noodles / (of food) soft (not crunchy) / (slang) (of a person) ineffectual / spineless | HSK 2 |
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| | round / lump / ball / to roll into a ball / to gather / regiment / group / society / classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) | HSK 3 |
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| | light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage | HSK 2 |
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| | soda pop; carbonated soft drink | HSK 4 |
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| | soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad | HSK 5 |
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| | soft / flexible | HSK 5 |
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| | in a fine voice (idiom); softly spoken | |
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| | young and tender / puerile / soft and immature | |
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| | wattle-necked soft-shelled turtle (Palea steindachneri) | |
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| | comfort / soft and fragrant / warm | HSK 7-9 |
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| | snow skin mooncake (with a soft casing which is not baked, instead of the traditional baked pastry casing) | |
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| | in a quiet voice; softly / (linguistics) neutral tone | |
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| | low-gluten flour / cake flour / pastry flour / soft flour | |
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| | tactful / euphemistic / (of voice etc) suave / soft | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soft power (in international relations) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soft-spoken / afraid to speak out | |
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| | to weaken / to go soft (at the knees) | |
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| | gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in a low voice / softly | |
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| | 7 Up (soft drink) / Hedy Holding Co., PRC computer manufacturer | |
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| | soft, misty rain | |
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| | to use softness to conquer strength (idiom) | |
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| | tender green; soft green | |
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| | soft / flexible / supple / yielding / rho (Greek letter Ρρ) | |
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| | handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status) | |
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| | excessive tendency to clemency (idiom) / soft-hearted (pejorative) | |
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| | soft drink | |
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| | (of an animal) soft-bodied / (Tw) software | |
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| | flaky pastry / crunchy / limp / soft / silky | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (loanword) soda / (loanword) carbonated drink; soft drink | |
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| | Sprite (soft drink) | |
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| | crumb (soft interior of a loaf of bread) | |
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| | to have a sharp tongue but a soft heart (idiom) | |
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| | lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted | |
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| | lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion | |
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| | soft yolk (of a cooked egg) | |
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| | hair / soft hair / down | |
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| | soft seat (= first class in PRC trains) | |
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| | reluctant to part / (of grass etc) soft and pliable, swaying in the wind | |
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| | soft on the inside despite one's hard shell / appearing tough on the outside as to mask one's inner vulnerability / also written 內柔外剛|内柔外刚 | |
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| | jellied tofu / soft bean curd | |
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| | Fanta (soft drink brand) / Fender (guitar brand) | |
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| | jellied tofu / soft bean curd | |
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| | to speak softly | |
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| | half-cooked; (of vegetables) parboiled; (of steak) medium; (of eggs) soft-boiled | |
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| | to stay for a time / to stop over / to lodge / to sink down (into soft ground) / leftovers | |
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| | (aviation) soft landing / (economics) soft landing | |
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| | soft; gentle; pliable | |
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| | flexible / not rigid / spongy / soft or runny (not set hard) / loose (soil) | |
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| | soft-spoken / affable / full of honeyed words | |
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| | the soft and melodic Wu dialect | |
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| | (loanword) sarsaparilla (carbonated soft drink) / (HK) (loanword) SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) | |
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| | onsen tamago; hot spring egg (soft-boiled egg cooked slowly in hot spring water) | |
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| | soft mixed vegetable and meat roll-up | |
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| | (idiom) (to move or do sth) softly; quietly; gently | |
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| | soft sleeper (a type of sleeper train ticket class with a softer bunk) | |
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| | (loanword) macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells | |
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| | soft | HSK 7-9 |
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| | gentle and reserved / soft / feminine | |
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| | silk floss / continuous / soft / weak / mild-mannered (dialect) | |
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| | soft measuring tape (non-retractable type used for body measurements etc) | |
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| | soft water (cf. 硬水, hard water) | |
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| | soft candy (gummi candy, gumdrop, jellybean etc) | |
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| | lit. a tortoise laughing at a soft-shelled turtle for having no tail (idiom) / fig. the pot calling the kettle black | |
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| | sweet / soft / lovely (of sounds and voices) | |
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| | (of food) starchy and soft | |
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| | not to fight back / to take it lying down / to show weakness / to show one's softer side | |
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| | soft, ineffectual fist (usu. of a woman) | |
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| | delicate hands / woman's tender and soft hands | |
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| | (bound form) (of newly sprouted grass) soft and fine; downy | |
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| | soft palate | |
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| | soft-shelled turtle / also termed 鱉|鳖 | |
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| | (coll.) pleasantly soft / comfy / (of words) gentle / soothing | |
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| | (of food etc) soft; pulpy / (Tw) (of a person) lacking drive; shiftless; lazy | |
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| | gradually; slowly / (of branches or hair) softly drooping | |
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| | soft (bread) roll | |
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| | to chant softly / to murmur | |
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| | lit. a soft nail / fig. a tactful retort or rejection | |
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| | water roux (aka tangzhong), a gelatinous paste made by heating a mixture of flour and water, used in breadmaking to produce a softer, fluffier loaf (loanword from Japanese 湯種 yudane) | |
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| | greasy / soft / unctuous / intimate / tired of | |
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| | soft seat (= first class in PRC trains) | |
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| | soft ice-cream | |
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| | gentle / soft | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soft leather | |
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| | soft-boiled egg | |
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| | to have lost one's mind / crazy / soft in the head | |
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| | beefsteak plant (Perilla frutescens) / soft / weak | |
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| | hard water (cf. 軟水|软水, soft water) | |
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| | fine and soft / valuables | |
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| | (finance) concessional loan; soft loan | |
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| | soft, fat meat of pig's belly / sow's sagging teats / weakling / flabby person / also written 囊膪 | |
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| | overcooked / soft | |
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| | tender and soft as water / deeply attached to sb | |
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| | jellied tofu / soft bean curd | |
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| | soft and chewy (mouthfeel) / (of a voice) tender; coaxing; clinging | |
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| | soft drink | |
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| | soft and warm (of bread) | |
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| | soft-scrambled egg (cooked until smooth and tender) | |
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| | to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom) / life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure | |
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