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  *做* | 做* | *做
to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)
HSK 1
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  *成* | 成* | *成
to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth
HSK 2
to become; to turn into
HSK 2
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  *变* | 变* | *变
to change / to become different / to transform / to vary / rebellion
HSK 2
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  *准* | 准* | *准
accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-
HSK 3
to change into / to turn into / to become
HSK 2
to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect / a discovery
HSK 2
matching / fitting in with / compatible with / to correspond / to fit / to conform to / rapport / to coordinate with / to act in concert with / to cooperate / to become man and wife / to combine parts of machine
HSK 3
to become invalid / to cancel / to delete / to nullify
HSK 6
to go bankrupt / to become impoverished / bankruptcy
HSK 4
to know; to become aware of / also pr. [zhi1dao5]
HSK 1
well-known for sth / to become well known / to make one's mark / to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
HSK 6
bright / shining / glittering / to become clear
HSK 5
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  *烧* | 烧* | *烧
to burn; to set on fire / to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc) / to braise / to cook; to prepare food / to run a fever / fever / (coll.) to become full of oneself; to get carried away
HSK 4
to become a member / to join / to mix into / to participate in / to add in
HSK 4
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  *入* | 入* | *入
to enter; to go into / to join; to become a member of / (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时) / abbr. for 入聲|入声 / (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese "iri")
HSK 6
to become deformed; to change shape; to morph
HSK 6
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  *肥* | 肥* | *肥
fat / fertile / loose-fitting or large / to fertilize / to become rich by illegal means / fertilizer / manure
HSK 4
to become rigid
HSK 7-9
to become inflamed / inflammation
HSK 6
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  *为* | 为* | *为
as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)
HSK 3
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  *届* | 届* | *届
to arrive at (place or time) / period / to become due / classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
HSK 5
to do an encore / (gaming) (of an item or character) to become available for purchase again
to become rich
HSK 7-9
(lit.) break one's arm three times to become a good doctor (idiom) / (fig.) experience is a good teacher
(derog.) to become powerful or influential
to become sick of a food after eating it too much
(lit.) break one's arm three times (to become a good doctor); (fig.) extensive experience (esp. gained through repeated hardship)
(embryology) to involute; involution / (neologism, attested by 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race; to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources)
to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *醒* | 醒* | *醒
to wake up / to be awake / to become aware / to sober up / to come to
HSK 4
to change into / to turn into / to become
to become hot / temperature rise / (fig.) to intensify / to hot up / to escalate / to get a boost
HSK 7-9
to lose one's eyesight / to become blind / blindness
HSK 7-9
to become aware / to detect / to realize / to perceive
HSK 5
to worry / to fret / to be anxious / to become sad
HSK 7-9
(literary) to become an official
(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism, attested by 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called "大白" in Chinese)
to intensify; to become acute; to come to a head
to become extinct; to die out / to lose (sth abstract) completely / to exterminate
HSK 7-9
(of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
HSK 7-9
to achieve the Dao / to become an immortal
to sense / to perceive / to become aware of / to detect
HSK 7-9
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect
HSK 7-9
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  *霉* | 霉* | *霉
mold / mildew / to become moldy
to get into a habit / to become addicted
HSK 7-9
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  *映* | 映* | *映
(bound form) to become visible (esp. on a surface or in perception)
HSK 7-9
(of food, books etc) to become infested with bugs
to become popular overnight
(idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable
to demagnetize; to become demagnetized
to feel / to sense / to detect / to perceive / to become aware
to change into / to turn into / to become
to become visible; to reveal
not to become attached to material things, not to pity oneself
(of people or relationships) close; intimate / to draw close to; to engage with; to become familiar with (nature, places, ideas, art etc)
HSK 7-9
to water down / to play down / to trivialize / to weaken / to become dull with time / to desalinate / desalination
HSK 7-9
to awaken / to come to realize / awakened to the truth / the truth dawns upon one / scales fall from the eyes / to become aware
HSK 7-9
to become moldy
to become more youthful
(statistics) normalized / to normalize (relations etc) / to become the norm
to become rich / enrichment
to harden / (medicine) sclerosis / (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
to take an official post / to become a government employee
(idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies
to become warm
to bury the hatchet / to become reconciled
to become agitated / to feel nervous
to become intoxicated
to rot / to decay / to become corrupt
HSK 7-9
to settle (a dispute out of court) / to reconcile / settlement / conciliation / to become reconciled
HSK 7-9
to win instant success (idiom) / to become an instant hit
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
to lay down a family fortune / to get rich / to become prosperous
lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
(of a certain group of people, e.g. recreational drug users) to become younger, on average, than before
to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
to change color / to discolor / to change countenance / to become angry
to become more and more / to gradually become
to become cooler / to lower the temperature / cooling / (of interest, activity etc) to decline
HSK 4
to figure out / to realize / to become convinced / to come round (to an idea) / to get over it
to become a Buddha / to attain enlightenment
to waste away / to become thin
to fall out with sb and become hostile
to drift apart / to become estranged / to alienate / estrangement
see 龍門縣|龙门县 / see 龍門石窟|龙门石窟 / see 龍門山|龙门山 / Dragon Gate, mythical gate at the crest of a waterfall over which a carp may leap to become a dragon; (fig.) gateway to success or greatness
to become shaped / to become formed
HSK 7-9
to become exhilarated (idiom); in high spirits / full of zest
to become pregnant / to conceive / impregnated / insemination
to become a common practice; to become a trend
suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing / fig. everything becomes clear at once / to achieve speedy enlightenment
to become suddenly popular
to become reconciled; on good terms with each other
to become known far and wide (idiom) / famous
(idiom) to become enraged over a perceived humiliation
HSK 7-9
lit. to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal / practice makes perfect
to enter the Way / to become a Daoist
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect / (of a tree) to grow to full size / to become useful for timber
to degrade / to degenerate / to become depraved / corrupt / a fall from grace
HSK 7-9

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