| | two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid | HSK 1 |
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| | good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello | HSK 1 |
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| | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]) / (math.) sum / to make peace / (sports) to draw; to tie / (bound form) harmonious / (bound form) Japan; Japanese | HSK 1 |
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| | down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action | HSK 1 |
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| | house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, 幢, 座, 套, 間|间 | HSK 1 |
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| | emotion; sentiment / affection; feelings between two persons | HSK 3 |
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| | two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤 (old) | HSK 1 |
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| | zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither | HSK 1 |
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| | heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns) | HSK 1 |
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| | individually; one by one / just one or two; exceptional; rare | HSK 4 |
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| | to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来) | HSK 1 |
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| | two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個|两个) / both / some | HSK 4 |
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| | (two, three etc) -fold / times (multiplier) / double / to increase or multiply | HSK 4 |
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| | two sides; both sides | HSK 6 |
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| | bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate | HSK 6 |
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| | two / double / pair / both / even (number) | HSK 3 |
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| | to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor | HSK 4 |
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| | amphibious / dual-talented / able to work in two different lines | HSK 7-9 |
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| | four grandparents, two parents and an only child | |
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| | apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他, 誰也沒來|除了他, 谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語, 他也會法語|除了英语, 他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B") | HSK 3 |
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| | to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable | HSK 5 |
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| | preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one's two hands / two prongs (of a strategy) / both aspects, eventualities etc / skills / expertise | HSK 6 |
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| | to lift / to raise / (of two or more persons) to carry | HSK 5 |
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| | double / twice / simultaneous / holding two or more (official) posts at the same time | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (astronomy) binary star / (fig.) two prominent entities regarded as a pair (often complementary or in rivalry) | |
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| | (coll.) two sisters; two close female friends | |
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| | two-character surname Chunyu | |
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| | not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking / without two sticks to rub together | HSK 7-9 |
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| | "lovers' avatar" – avatar that matches the avatar of a significant other (e.g. two halves of one image, two images drawn in a similar style etc), used to indicate a romantic relationship (abbr. for 情侶頭像|情侣头像) | |
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| | (coll.) two brothers; two close male friends | |
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| | one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) | |
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| | second (of two parts) / next (week etc) / subsequent / the following | |
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| | two-party system | |
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| | "lovers' avatar" – avatar that matches the avatar of a significant other (e.g. two halves of one image, two images drawn in a similar style etc), used to indicate a romantic relationship | |
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| | (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, 幢, 座 | HSK 6 |
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| | one or two; a few / a little; just a bit | |
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| | lit. one is one, two is two (idiom) / fig. things are (or ought to be) perfectly clear-cut / unequivocal | |
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| | picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of two or more things) to occur at the same time; to be mingled; to accompany each other | |
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| | an imagined romantic relationship between two characters in fiction (or in real life) that one wishes for or fantasizes about (abbr. of "coupling") | |
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| | lit. one action, two gains (idiom) / fig. two birds with one stone | |
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| | first (of two parts) / last (week etc) / previous / the above | |
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| | World War Two | |
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| | between / among / within a definite time or space / room / section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars / classifier for rooms | HSK 1 |
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| | two-way translation | |
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| | to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard) | |
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| | two-dimensional / the fictional worlds of anime, comics and games | |
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| | to count the number of seconds (between two events) | |
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| | two-day weekend (abbr. for 雙休日|双休日) | |
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| | (anatomy) round window (one of the two openings from the middle ear into the inner ear) | |
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| | world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world | |
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| | not much to choose between the two / tweedledum and tweedledee | |
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| | (fig.) two sides of the same coin | |
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| | two or three | |
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| | two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union | |
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| | one divides into two / to be two-sided / there are two sides to everything / to see both sb's good points and shortcomings (idiom) | |
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| | one-two or ace-deuce (smallest throw at dice) / a prostitute | |
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| | peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH) | |
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| | in twos and threes | |
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| | in two minds about sth (idiom) / half-hearted / shilly-shallying | |
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| | lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom) / to kill two birds with one stone | |
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| | (music) tuba / (of clothes, print etc) large size; large format / (polite) your (given) name / (coll.) number two; poop; to defecate | |
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| | man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经) | |
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| | to do two things at once (idiom) / to multitask / to divide one's attention | |
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| | (of two things) to come into contact / to meet / to hand over to / to take over from / to associate with / to have friendly relations with / to have sexual intercourse | HSK 7-9 |
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| | distance between two poles / poles apart | |
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| | to draw together / to place side by side (e.g. one's fingers, two halves of a torn sheet of paper etc) | |
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| | both countries; the two countries | |
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| | between the two countries; bilateral | |
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| | time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil) | |
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| | two-dimensional | |
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| | (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time / a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet) / to spare some time for a separate task / to cut a corpse into pieces / to pull a body apart by the four limbs / parturition | |
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| | to access / to transfer passengers between two railway lines | |
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| | pubic region / point two inches below the navel where one's qi resides | |
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| | two-character surname Shangguan | |
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| | to do the splits (gymnastics) / (Tw) two-timing (in romantic relationships) / Taiwan pr. [pi1 tui3] | |
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| | 2-in-1 / two-in-one | |
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| | both sides (in contract) / the two opposing sides (in a dispute) | |
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| | lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise) | |
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| | two things that are fundamentally different from each other; two very different things | |
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| | to fit one into the other / to bring two things into contact | |
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| | Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义, the two great beauties of ancient China | |
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| | special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia | |
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| | two-item combo (usu. referring to a food dish, esp. two types of meat served with rice or noodles) / (real estate) duplex; semi-detached / (computing) double pinyin (input method in which each syllable is typed using no more than two keystrokes: one for the initial consonant and one for the final) | |
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| | United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945) | |
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| | buy one, get one free / two for the price of one | |
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| | the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences / incompatible standpoints | |
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| | 9-11 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
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| | two-day weekend | |
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| | second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two) | |
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| | (idiom) just a word or two; a few isolated phrases | |
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| | lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom) / fig. everybody's business is nobody's business / (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.) | |
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| | lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts | |
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| | the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (traditional) | |
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| | lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb) / fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute / it takes two to tango / it's difficult to achieve anything without support | |
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