| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | (two, three etc) -fold / times (multiplier) / double / to increase or multiply | HSK 4 |
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| | individually; one by one / just one or two; exceptional; rare | HSK 4 |
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| | two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個|两个) / both / some | HSK 4 |
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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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| | 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 / 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | two-character surname Chunyu | |
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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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| | two sides; both sides | HSK 6 |
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| | (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ... | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, 幢, 座 | HSK 6 |
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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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| | (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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| | 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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| | 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 kill two birds with one stone (idiom) | |
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| | vertical space in a newspaper between two attached pages / vertical line on the back of clothing | |
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| | one-two or ace-deuce (smallest throw at dice) / a prostitute | |
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| | world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world | |
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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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| | deferred death sentence / commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal) | |
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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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| | peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH) | |
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| | in two minds about sth (idiom) / half-hearted / shilly-shallying | |
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| | between the two countries; bilateral | |
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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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| | one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) | |
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| | World War Two | |
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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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| | to become intoxicated after having only one or two drinks | |
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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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| | both ends (of a stick etc) / two extremes | |
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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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| | 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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| | the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences / incompatible standpoints | |
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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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| | in twos and threes | |
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| | second (of two parts) / next (week etc) / subsequent / the following | |
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| | World War Two | |
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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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| | second (i.e. number two) / second time / twice / (math.) quadratic (of degree two) | |
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| | lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath / incomparable | |
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| | lit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both (idiom) / fig. when two sides are locked in dispute, it's often a third party that benefits | |
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| | to proceed in parallel / side by side (of two processes, developments, thoughts etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | amphibious / dual-talented / able to work in two different lines | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one of a sequence of contests (or subdivisions of a contest) between the same two opponents / round (boxing etc) / rally (tennis etc) / frame (billiards etc) / inning / (tennis, soccer etc) rubber or leg / round (of negotiations) | |
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| | not much to choose between the two / tweedledum and tweedledee | |
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| | lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty | |
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| | (soccer) one-two / push-and-run | |
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| | two-character surname Zhuge / Taiwan pr. [Zhu1ge2] | |
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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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| | to discuss two disparate things together (idiom); to mention on equal terms / to place on a par with / (often with negatives: impossible to mention X in the same breath as Y) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | character with two or more readings | |
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| | (fig.) adaptable; able to deal with various kinds of people and situations / (derog.) insincere; two-faced | |
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| | dualism / two sided / double nature | |
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| | the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (traditional) | |
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| | the two poles / the north and south poles / both ends of sth / electric or magnetic poles | |
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| | two-faced, three knives (idiom); double-cross / double dealing and back stabbing | |
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| | distance between two poles / poles apart | |
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| | (Maoism) one divides into two | |
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| | Sichuan / originally two provinces of Qin and Han | |
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| | two or three | |
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| | first (of two parts) / last (week etc) / previous / the above | |
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| | soldier (from the two components of the 兵 character) (derog.) | |
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| | (idiom) you and me both; that makes two of us | |
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| | (of two vehicles traveling in opposite directions) to pass by each other | |
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| | to fit one into the other / to bring two things into contact | |
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| | relations between two countries / diplomatic relations | |
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| | (fig.) two sides of the same coin | |
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| | two-phase (physics) | |
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| | to be between two parties (as in mediation) / to be in the middle; to be in between / (page layout) to be centered | |
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| | to raise aloft with both hands / (of two or more people) to carry sth together | |
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| | qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony / marital harmony | |
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| | dance for two / pas de deux | |
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| | both countries; the two countries | |
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| | the two of us | |
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