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  *二* | 二* | *二
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
HSK 1
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  *好* | 好* | *好
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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  *和* | 和* | *和
(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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  *下* | 下* | *下
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
house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, , , , 間|间
HSK 1
emotion; sentiment / affection; feelings between two persons
HSK 3
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  *两* | 两* | *两
two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty (old)
HSK 1
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  *零* | 零* | *零
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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  *跟* | 跟* | *跟
heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns)
HSK 1
individually; one by one / just one or two; exceptional; rare
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *来* | 来* | *来
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 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俩* | 俩* | *俩
two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個|两个) / both / some
HSK 4
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  *倍* | 倍* | *倍
(two, three etc) -fold / times (multiplier) / double / to increase or multiply
HSK 4
two sides; both sides
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *券* | 券* | *券
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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  *双* | 双* | *双
two / double / pair / both / even (number)
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *归* | 归* | *归
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
amphibious / dual-talented / able to work in two different lines
HSK 7-9
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *421* | 421* | *421
four grandparents, two parents and an only child
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
to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable
HSK 5
preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils
HSK 7-9
one's two hands / two prongs (of a strategy) / both aspects, eventualities etc / skills / expertise
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抬* | 抬* | *抬
to lift / to raise / (of two or more persons) to carry
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *兼* | 兼* | *兼
double / twice / simultaneous / holding two or more (official) posts at the same time
HSK 7-9
(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
to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc)
HSK 7-9
(astronomy) binary star / (fig.) two prominent entities regarded as a pair (often complementary or in rivalry)
(coll.) two sisters; two close female friends
two-character surname Chunyu
not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking / without two sticks to rub together
HSK 7-9
"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)
(coll.) two brothers; two close male friends
one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
second (of two parts) / next (week etc) / subsequent / the following
two-party system
"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
(conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...
HSK 7-9
a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, ,
HSK 6
one or two; a few / a little; just a bit
lit. one is one, two is two (idiom) / fig. things are (or ought to be) perfectly clear-cut / unequivocal
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *担* | 担* | *担
picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole
HSK 7-9
(of two or more things) to occur at the same time; to be mingled; to accompany each other
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *CP* | CP* | *CP
an imagined romantic relationship between two characters in fiction (or in real life) that one wishes for or fantasizes about (abbr. of "coupling")
lit. one action, two gains (idiom) / fig. two birds with one stone
first (of two parts) / last (week etc) / previous / the above
World War Two
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *间* | 间* | *间
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
two-way translation
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *更* | 更* | *更
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)
two-dimensional / the fictional worlds of anime, comics and games
to count the number of seconds (between two events)
two-day weekend (abbr. for 雙休日|双休日)
(anatomy) round window (one of the two openings from the middle ear into the inner ear)
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
not much to choose between the two / tweedledum and tweedledee
(fig.) two sides of the same coin
two or three
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
one divides into two / to be two-sided / there are two sides to everything / to see both sb's good points and shortcomings (idiom)
one-two or ace-deuce (smallest throw at dice) / a prostitute
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *肽* | 肽* | *肽
peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
in twos and threes
in two minds about sth (idiom) / half-hearted / shilly-shallying
lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom) / to kill two birds with one stone
(music) tuba / (of clothes, print etc) large size; large format / (polite) your (given) name / (coll.) number two; poop; to defecate
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经)
to do two things at once (idiom) / to multitask / to divide one's attention
(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
distance between two poles / poles apart
to draw together / to place side by side (e.g. one's fingers, two halves of a torn sheet of paper etc)
both countries; the two countries
between the two countries; bilateral
time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day
HSK 7-9
dualism, belief that the universe is made of two different substance (e.g. mind and matter or good and evil)
two-dimensional
(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
to access / to transfer passengers between two railway lines
pubic region / point two inches below the navel where one's qi resides
two-character surname Shangguan
to do the splits (gymnastics) / (Tw) two-timing (in romantic relationships) / Taiwan pr. [pi1 tui3]
2-in-1 / two-in-one
both sides (in contract) / the two opposing sides (in a dispute)
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)
two things that are fundamentally different from each other; two very different things
to fit one into the other / to bring two things into contact
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
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
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)
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
buy one, get one free / two for the price of one
the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences / incompatible standpoints
9-11 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
two-day weekend
second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
(idiom) just a word or two; a few isolated phrases
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.)
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
the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (traditional)
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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