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  *上* | 上* | *上
(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above
HSK 1
to rise / to go up / to ascend
HSK 3
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  *及* | 及* | *及
and / to reach / up to / in time for
HSK 7-9
(try to) overcome (hardships etc) / to conquer / to put up with / to endure
HSK 3
to go up
HSK 3
down to / up to / to such an extent as to ... / also written 以至於|以至于
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  *係* | 係* | *係
to connect / to relate to / to tie up / to bind / to be (literary)
HSK 3
the top and bottom of sth / the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom / to go up and down / before and after (as in 上下文 "context") / (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so / (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦 "harmony between superiors and subordinates") / all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下 "the entire nation") / relative superiority (as in 不相上下 "evenly matched")
HSK 5
to take up space / to occupy (space)
to drink a toast / Cheers! (proposing a toast) / Here's to you! / Bottoms up! / lit. dry cup
HSK 2
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  *任* | 任* | *任
to assign / to appoint / to take up a post / office / responsibility / to let / to allow / to give free rein to / no matter (how, what etc) / classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
HSK 3
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  *品* | 品* | *品
(bound form) article; commodity; product; goods / (bound form) grade; rank / kind; type; variety / character; disposition; nature; temperament / to taste sth; to sample / to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up / fret (on a guitar or lute)
HSK 5
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  *cos* | cos* | *cos
(Internet slang) cosplay / to cosplay / to dress up as
to form / to make up / to constitute
HSK 2
to roll up / to curl up / (of dust etc) to swirl up
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  *到* | 到* | *到
to reach; to arrive / to leave for; to go to / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) / considerate; thoughtful; thorough
HSK 1
to go up by one grade; to be promoted / to escalate (in intensity) / (computing) to upgrade
HSK 6
pop-up window (computing)
to connect (a cable etc) / to hook up (a device) / to resume (a conversation) / to set (a bone)
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  *光* | 光* | *光
light; ray (CL:) / bright; shiny / only; merely / used up; finished / to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
HSK 3
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  *占* | 占* | *占
to take possession of / to occupy / to take up
HSK 2
to appear personally / to step in / to step forth / to show up
HSK 6
to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel / to accelerate; to step on the gas / (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on
HSK 2
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  *查* | 查* | *查
to research / to check / to investigate / to examine / to refer to / to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)
HSK 2
shouting and screaming (idiom); to scream loudly / to rant / to kick up a racket / to conduct vigorous propaganda
to take sb's measurements / to measure sb up
to such an extent as to / down to / up to
HSK 7-9
to hold up / to hinder / to stall
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  *樹* | 樹* | *樹
tree / CL: / to cultivate / to set up
HSK 1
uphill road / slope up / fig. upward trend / progress
to climb a hill / to go to the mountains / (of silkworms) to go up bundles of straw (to spin cocoons) / to pass away / (of the sun or moon) to rise
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
to resume smoking (after giving up) / to relapse into smoking or drug abuse
to draw up / to draft / to formulate
HSK 7-9
to stir up / to turn over
(Tw) to divide up an area / to assign a spot; to allocate a seat / one's assigned spot
to arrange; to lay out; (esp.) to set up (a trap)
to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute) / (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
HSK 4
to scatter / to break sth up / to beat (an egg)
(of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
to open up a port for trade / to open treaty ports
(coll.) to doll up / to spruce up / to zhoosh up
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
HSK 7-9
to take a tonic or nourishing food to build up one's health
(finance) to snap up undervalued stocks / bargain-hunting; bottom-fishing
to set up; to open (an account, a branch store etc) / to draw up (a certificate, receipt, prescription etc)
to swallow in one gulp (idiom) / (fig.) to accept without thinking / to lap up
to sew together / suture (in surgery) / to sew up (a wound)
HSK 7-9
to summarize / to sum up
to ignite / to light a fire / to agitate / to start an engine / ignition / fig. to stir up trouble
HSK 7-9
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  *冒* | 冒* | *冒
to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth) / to brave; to face / (bound form) reckless / to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign / (literary) to cover
HSK 5
to take up one's post; to go on duty / to take up a job
HSK 7-9
to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations)
to open up land (for agriculture)
flower bud / young flower still tightly rolled up
to give up evil and return to virtue
ad hoc / to set up specially
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  *串* | 串* | *串
to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across
HSK 6
to make up one's mind
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  *斷* | 斷* | *斷
to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly
HSK 3
to sit properly / to sit up straight
a period of time in the recent past / (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along; the whole time
HSK 5
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  *厭* | 厭* | *厭
(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with / (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
to viciously beat (sb) up / CL: 頓|顿
determination / resolution / determined / firm and resolute / to make up one's mind / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
Tangut branch of the Qiang ethnic group / ancient ethnic group who made up the Xixia dynasty 西夏 1038-1227
lit. Even if we don't see each other, don't give up and leave (idiom) / fig. Be sure to wait! / See you there!
second place (in a sports contest) / runner-up
HSK 5
What's up?; Is something the matter? / (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 關|关 + {person} + 什麼事|什么事 "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")
down to / up to / to the extent that...
HSK 7-9
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  *理* | 理* | *理
texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up
HSK 6
to confuse / to muddle / to mix up
to pair up / to match / to arrange in pairs / to add sth into a group
HSK 6
mix-up / mish-mash / potpourri
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei as villains
up until now / to date
to attain; to reach up to
lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom) / fig. to scoop up the whole lot / to capture them all in one go
to pile up like a mountain (idiom) / a mountain of (paperwork etc) / a large number of sth
to put up with / to tolerate
HSK 7-9
to sum up / to summarize / to conclude from facts / induction (method of deduction in logic)
HSK 7-9
to divide up / to partition / to differentiate
HSK 5
lacking in strength; weak; feeble / not up to the task
wide / open (spaces) / to open up
HSK 7-9
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  *窮* | 窮* | *窮
poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
HSK 4
to summon one's (courage, faith etc) / to puff up (one's cheeks etc) / to bulge / to swell out
to pay up / to shell out / to hand over the money to cover sth
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  *排* | 排* | *排
a row / a line / to set in order / to arrange / to line up / to eliminate / to drain / to push open / platoon / raft / classifier for lines, rows etc
HSK 2
to arrange / to tidy up / to sort out / to straighten out / to list systematically / to collate (data, files) / to pack (luggage)
HSK 3
face light up with delight (idiom); to beam with joy
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
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  *編* | 編* | *編
to weave / to plait / to organize / to group / to arrange / to edit / to compile / to write / to compose / to fabricate / to make up
HSK 4
to enjoy / to live it up / pleasure / CL: 種|种
HSK 5
to rise / to go up
HSK 5
unwilling to give up / unresigned
to live up to
to ratchet up / to raise (expectations etc) / to increase (a quota, a position in the market etc) / to up the ante / (computing) to encode
to order people about / to stir up / to sow discord
to clear up (of weather after rain)
to dress up

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