| | of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的｜跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs | HSK 1 |
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| | song (CL: 首, 支) / (bound form) to sing | HSK 1 |
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| | to send; to deliver; to transmit / to give (as a present) / to see (sb) off / to accompany; to go along with | HSK 1 |
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| | to sing a song | HSK 1 |
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| | word / statement; speech; lyrics / a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 (CL: 首) | HSK 2 |
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| | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread / to propagate / (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular / fashionable | HSK 2 |
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| | to support / to sustain / to erect / to raise / branch / division / to draw money / classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions | HSK 3 |
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| | head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc | HSK 4 |
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| | loose / to loosen / to relax / floss (dry, fluffy food product made from shredded, seasoned meat or fish, used as a topping or filling) | HSK 4 |
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| | to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem | HSK 5 |
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| | song | HSK 5 |
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| | song lyric / lyrics | HSK 6 |
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| | legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | triumphal hymn; victory song; paean | HSK 7-9 |
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| | popular song / folk tune / ballad | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song) / (coll.) to challenge | HSK 7-9 |
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| | theme song | HSK 7-9 |
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| | style of folk song popular in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia / CL: 首 | |
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| | to collect local cultural material (recording folk songs, taking photos etc) | |
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| | ode / eulogy / to praise in writing / to wish (in letters) | |
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| | start of literary work / opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞｜弹词 | |
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| | surname Song | |
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| | to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s) | |
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| | old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject | |
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| | song | |
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| | to chant; to recite / verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems) / (literary) to lament; to groan / (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects / (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴) (cf. 猱, wide vibrato) | |
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| | abbr. for Shijing 詩經｜诗经, the Book of Songs | |
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| | Jiading district of northwest Shanghai / final reign name 1208-1224 of South Song emperor Ningzong 寧宗｜宁宗 | |
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| | surname Song / the Song dynasty (960-1279) / Song of the Southern Dynasties (420-479) 南朝宋 | |
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| | Emperor Taizu of Song, posthumous title of the founding Song emperor Zhao Kuangyin 趙匡胤｜赵匡胤 (927-976), reigned from 960 | |
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| | Song Dynasty (960-1279) / also Song of Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479) | |
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| | Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經｜五经 | |
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| | the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) | |
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| | repertoire / program / song / piece of music | |
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| | oldie (song) | |
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| | school song | |
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| | branch / stem / stalk / CL: 根 / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏, initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc) | |
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| | Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷｜离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭｜楚辞 | |
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| | (of alcohol, love etc) to go to one’s head; (of an idea, a song etc) to get into one's head; to capture one's attention / (old) (of a girl on her wedding day) to start wearing one's hair in a bun (rather than a plait) | |
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| | Mincho / Song font | |
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| | xiaodiao, a Chinese folk song genre / minor key (in music) | |
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| | to cook on a skewer / barbecued food on a skewer / shish kebab / (fig.) to perform or play songs in sequence / sequence of songs / medley | |
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| | Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山｜孙中山, influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925 | |
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| | famous song / well-known piece of music | |
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| | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经 | |
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| | song cycle in Chinese opera / (fig.) a series of tricks / polite remarks / number of (things that are counted in 套, like houses) | |
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| | rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. [che4]) / (coll.) the direction of traffic / a rhyme (of a song, poem etc) / (dialect) (usu. after 有 or 沒｜没) way; idea | |
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| | On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原 in Songs of Chu 楚辭｜楚辞 | |
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| | Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan Marsh in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, whose exploits include killing a tiger with his bare hands | |
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| | (sentence-final particle expressing exhortation) / (syllable filler in a song) | |
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| | Lord Bao or Judge Bao, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty | |
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| | the Five Classics of Confucianism, namely: the Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经, the Book of History 書經｜书经, the Classic of Rites 禮記｜礼记, the Book of Changes 易經｜易经, and the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 | |
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| | Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山｜华山 in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山｜恒山 in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan | |
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| | Songs of Chu, an anthology of poetic songs, many from the state of Chu 楚, collected in the Han dynasty 漢朝｜汉朝 | |
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| | the Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经 and the Book of History 書經｜书经 | |
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| | frightened | |
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| | shepherd's song / pastoral | |
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| | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经 | |
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| | name of a river in Jiangsu Province | |
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| | to sing loudly / to lift one's voice in song | |
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| | guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times) | |
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| | to pass on a song | |
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| | ballad / folk song | |
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| | Mt Song in Henan | |
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| | (literary) (of mountains) lofty | |
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| | an unidentified fragrant plant mentioned in the Songs of Chu 楚辭｜楚辞 / used in 芭蕉 / used in transliteration | |
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| | most perfect song | |
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| | Song county in Luoyang 洛陽｜洛阳, Henan | |
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| | anew / from the beginning / (in poetry and song) repetition of a melody or rhythm | |
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| | love song | |
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| | to sing with solemn fervor / sad, stirring song; elegy; dirge; threnody | |
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| | to appear on the public roll of successful examinees (i.e. pass an exam) / to make the list / (of a song) to hit the charts | |
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| | sporting coach / military drill master (in Song times) | |
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| | Huangfu Song (-195), later Han general and warlord | |
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| | used in 慫恿｜怂恿 / (literary) terrified | |
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| | Song dynasty (960-1279) | |
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| | to excite / to raise up / to shrug / high / lofty / towering | |
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| | mournful song / dirge / elegy | |
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| | lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment | |
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| | Tang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil authority, but only civil authority in Song | |
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| | folk-song / forced labor | |
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| | love song | |
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| | song of cicadas / chirping of insects | |
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| | litigation | |
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| | to sing to a string accompaniment / education (a reference to teaching the people Confucian values by means of song in ancient times) | |
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| | to read aloud / to recite | |
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| | the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) | |
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| | Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi / "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces | |
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| | notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old) / a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties | |
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| | lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經｜诗经); fig. to plan ahead / to prepare for a rainy day | |
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| | imitation Song dynasty typeface / Fangsong font | |
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| | Katyusha (name) / name of a Russian wartime song / nickname of a rocket launcher used by the Red Army in WWII | |
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| | Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業｜杨业 of warriors | |
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| | Bianjing, Northern Song capital, now called Kaifeng 開封｜开封, Henan | |
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| | (literary) to end; to stop / one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞｜词 / classifier for songs or ci poems | |
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| | The East is Red, north Shaanxi folk song | |
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| | (cabbage) / Brassica chinensis | |
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