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  *帅* | 帅* | *帅
(bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
HSK 4
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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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  *甜* | 甜* | *甜
sweet / (fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely
HSK 3
to have as a feature or characteristic; to have an element of (confidence, sweetness, malevolence etc); to carry (a pathogen, connotation etc)
HSK 5
sweet cherry
(coll.) girl with a sweet, cute demeanor
sweet taste (of power, success etc); benefit
HSK 7-9
(lit.) sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) / (fig.) all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
HSK 5
sweet given on a happy occasion (esp. wedding)
HSK 7-9
"wife cake" – a thin, flaky Cantonese pastry filled with sweetened winter melon (or other mild sweet fillings)
salted egg custard bun; lava bun (steamed bun with a sweet runny egg custard filling, a popular dim sum)
lit. the dishes are cold (idiom) / fig. to arrive late; to take one's sweet time
sweet / happy
HSK 7-9
bell pepper, aka sweet pepper
sweet granadilla (Passiflora ligularis)
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) / yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus) / (TCM) digua fig (Ficus tikoua Bur.)
sweet-sounding / beautiful (of sound)
HSK 7-9
honey peach (juicy sweet peach variety)
traditional Xinjiang sweet walnut cake
very sweet
fragrance / bouquet / sweet smell / CL:
HSK 7-9
sweet fermented rice / glutinous rice wine
gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman)
HSK 7-9
sweet liquor
(idiom) to smile sweetly
sweet
sweet orange (Citrus sinensis)
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
(Internet slang) sweet, naive young woman
five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)
sweet potato
HSK 7-9
sweet-tempered / acquiescent
beautiful / sweet / engaging
(of a couple) to be sweet to each other; lovey-dovey / tired of; fed up with; sick of (synonym of 膩味|腻味)
sweet scent / fragrant odor
sweet potato
sweet and sour pork
flattering and fawning (idiom) / sweet-talking
maltose (sweet syrup)
melancholy / moving and sad / sweet and piteous
fragrant and sweet / sound (sleep)
lit. to give sb a slap, then offer a sweet date (idiom) / fig. to deal harshly with sb, then offer sth by way of consolation
lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
sweet / pleasant / happy
HSK 7-9
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  *稀* | 稀* | *稀
sparse; scattered / rare; uncommon / diluted; thin; watery / (bound form) sth liquid or of thin consistency (as in 綠豆稀|绿豆稀 "sweet mung bean soup") / (bound form) totally; extremely (used with negative attributes, as in 稀糟 "utterly ruined")
HSK 7-9
sweet sorghum
sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
sweet and sour meat (pork)
nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour
sweet / cute / delicately pretty
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  *薰* | 薰* | *薰
sweet-smelling grass / Coumarouna odorata / tonka beans / coumarin
sour and sweet
pineapple bun, a sweet bun popular esp. in Hong Kong (typically does not contain pineapple – the name comes from the rough top crust which resembles pineapple skin)
the five flavors, namely: sweet , sour , bitter , spicy hot , salty 鹹|咸 / all kinds of flavors
to bill and coo (idiom) / to whisper sweet nothings to one another / to be very much in love
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  *嫣* | 嫣* | *嫣
(literary) lovely; sweet
taiyaki, Japanese-style waffle made with a fish-shaped mold, typically filled with a sweet bean paste
sweet / soft / lovely (of sounds and voices)
sweet and mellow / fresh and moist (air)
sweet and sour
sweet fermented rice / glutinous rice wine
(dialect) (of food) excessively sweet; cloying / (dialect) (of words, affection etc) sickenly sweet; overly sentimental
sweet dream / sleeping soundly
sweet-talking / ingratiating
haw jelly, a sweet jelly popular in northern China, made from Chinese hawthorn fruit
monk fruit, the sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine of the Curcubitaceae family native to southern China and northern Thailand, used in Chinese medicine
(loanword) sweet cherry
lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment
(idiom) sweet words / sweet talk / cajolery
(dialect) sweet potato or yam
sachima, sweet (Manchu) pastry made of fried strips of dough coated with syrup, pressed together, then cut into blocks
sweet potato / Ipomoea batatas
sweet sorghum
(idiom) pitiable; sweet, innocent and vulnerable
Acorus calamus / sweet sedge or sweet flag
(dialect) sweet potato / yam
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  *甘* | 甘* | *甘
(bound form) sweet; pleasant (contrasted with : bitter, unpleasant) / to be willing (to do sth)
sweet and delicious
to have a sweet aftertaste
ching bo leung, an icy, sweet dessert soup
sweet words / fine talk
pineapple cake, traditional Taiwanese sweet pastry
imagawayaki (sweet snack made of batter cooked in the shape of a car wheel, stuffed with azuki bean paste or other fillings)
Dioscorea alata (Kinampay or aromatic purple yam, a sweet root crop)
sweet potato
sweet-tempered / gentle
sweet and sour fish
Acorus calamus / sweet sedge or sweet flag
sweet words / sweet talk
to cajole / to sweet talk sb into doing sth
whisperings / private words / confidences / sweet nothings
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  *齁* | 齁* | *齁
to snore / thirsty from excessively salty or sweet food / (dialect) very / extremely
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
flirtatious / coquettish / sweet and charming / beautiful young woman (old)
to have a sweet aftertaste
(of flavor, voice etc) clear and sweet
syrup / sweetened water / tong sui (sweet soup)
sweetness; sweet taste
sweet mouth, bitter heart (idiom); insincere flattery
sweet and sour meat (pork)

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