| | of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的｜跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs | HSK 1 |
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| | who / also pr. [shui2] | HSK 1 |
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| | whatever / no matter what (who, how etc) / regardless of / not to discuss | HSK 3 |
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| | to walk; to go on foot / to leave; to depart / (informal) to clear off; to beat it / (of sb who gets fired or resigns) to leave the job; to get out | HSK 1 |
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| | (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後｜后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this | HSK 3 |
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| | (there are) some (who are...) / some (exist) | HSK 1 |
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| | good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle | HSK 2 |
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| | (raw) material / data / (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job | HSK 4 |
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| | which ones? / who? / what? | HSK 1 |
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| | only have ...; there is only ... / (used in combination with 才) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈｜只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy") / it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要 "only men would have such a requirement") / (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | HSK 3 |
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| | to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam / to admit (a student) / to hire (a job candidate) | HSK 4 |
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| | green tea / (slang) (of a girl) seemingly innocent and charming but actually calculating and manipulative; a girl who has these qualities | HSK 3 |
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| | "The Wind Blows", a game in which one player calls out a category, all players who match it must change seats, and the person left without a seat becomes "it" ( 鬼) | |
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| | to meet with (sb who is paying a visit) / CL: 次 | HSK 6 |
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| | migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project | HSK 6 |
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| | a benefactor / a person who has significantly helped sb else | HSK 6 |
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| | master's degree / person who has a master's degree / learned person | HSK 5 |
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| | (derog.) young woman who works in a factory | |
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| | (derog.) young man who works in a factory | |
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| | ice queen (beautiful woman who appears to be emotionless and distant) | |
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| | unexpected / hard to imagine / it had not occurred to me / who could have thought that | HSK 6 |
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| | maker (innovative enthusiast who builds objects using technology) | |
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| | (coll.) "leftover man" – a man who remains single beyond the typical marrying age | |
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| | to go online; to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc) | |
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| | (literary) commoner; unlearned person (in former times, one who had not obtained an official degree) / (old) temporary conscript | |
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| | overseas Chinese / (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality / CL: 個｜个, 位, 名 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pray for / to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc) / person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies | HSK 3 |
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| | (derog.) father who sexually abuses his own child | |
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| | do not / there is none who | |
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| | to lose (money); to have a deficit / to be deficient / to treat unfairly / luckily; fortunately; thanks to / (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations) | HSK 5 |
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| | (neologism, attested by 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society) | |
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| | to compete against / to measure oneself against / to go head to head (see who is best) | |
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| | World Health Organization (WHO) | |
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| | Fu Zuoyi (1895–1974), Chinese general and politician, Nationalist commander who negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beiping (Beijing) to the Communists in 1949, and later held senior posts in the PRC government | |
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| | (of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together | HSK 7-9 |
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| | peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016) | |
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| | shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace | |
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| | a neglected branch (of arts, science, sports etc) / fig. a complete unknown who wins a competition | HSK 7-9 |
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| | migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | group buying / collective buying / buying by a group of individuals who negotiate a discount for the group | |
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| | (Internet slang) uploader (person who uploads a video or other content to the Internet) / pronounced [a4 pu5 zhu3] / (loanword from Japanese うｐ 主, "upunushi") | |
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| | wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic | |
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| | housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them | |
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| | to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect | HSK 7-9 |
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| | outsourcing / people who judge others by their looks (abbr. for 外貌協會｜外貌协会) | |
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| | who would believe it! / what rubbish! | |
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| | exorcising God / God who drives away plague and evil spirits | |
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| | (idiom) to observe with an indifferent attitude; to be a bystander (usually referring to someone who could get involved but chooses not to) | |
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| | thief; bandit (esp. one who has gained notoriety) | |
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| | (neologism, attested by 2019) to exert control over (sb) by means of psychological manipulation (e.g. negging) / a person who does so (loanword from "pickup artist") | |
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| | He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow. | |
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| | lit. at whose hand will the deer die (idiom) / fig. who will emerge victorious | |
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| | little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older) | |
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| | person who is wise after the event | |
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| | (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly) | |
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| | (coll.) "leftover woman" – a woman who remains single beyond the typical marrying age | |
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| | medical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生｜外科医生 | |
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| | the "good-looks club": people who attach great importance to a person's appearance (pun on 外貿協會｜外贸协会 foreign trade association) | |
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| | (dialect) close childhood friend whom one grew up with / a couple who grew up as childhood friends | |
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| | a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe) | |
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| | (fig.) (coll.) sensitivity to hot food or drink; person who has such a sensitivity | |
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| | a slave to one's credit card / sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings | |
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| | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥｜崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓｜岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣｜滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
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| | a treacherous court official / a minister who conspires against the state | |
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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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| | Bole (a man who lived during Spring and Autumn Period, reputed to be able to spot a good horse) / a person who is good at spotting talent | |
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| | Li Bing (c. 3rd century BC) hydraulic engineer who designed the Dujiangyan 都江堰 irrigation system in Sichuan | |
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| | percentage of children who enter school | |
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| | (slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.) | |
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| | fellmonger / a dealer who works with animal hides and skins | |
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| | meritorious official / person who renders exceptional service; hero / (fig.) sth that plays a vital role | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds? | |
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| | aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) | |
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| | (coll.) shill; tout; phony customer who pretends to buys things so as to lure real customers | |
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| | Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent; (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia | |
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| | person who is deaf and nonverbal | |
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| | 3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination / (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三級甲等｜三级甲等) | |
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| | equally matched / not much to distinguish who is stronger | |
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| | Buddha (a person who has attained Buddhahood, or specifically Siddhartha Gautama) | |
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| | young person who pursues multiple careers simultaneously; a young slashie | |
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| | sb who gets things done / doer | |
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| | (idiom) it's the most capable people who do the most work (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc) | |
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| | (of an organization that has a duty of care) to give financial support to relatives of sb who has died or suffered serious injury | HSK 7-9 |
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| | "sensational headline writers", people who write misleading titles in order to generate clicks from Internet users / clickbait | |
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| | (onom.) sound of the wind or the breathing of sb who is sound asleep | |
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| | honeybee; (fig.) industrious person (esp. one who shuttles back and forth) / voice booster (microphone headset with a wearable speaker) | |
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| | which / who | |
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| | one who can correct a misread or misspelt character and thus be your master | |
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| | monk who has mastered the scriptures; (esp.) Xuanzang 玄奘 (602-664) | |
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| | little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older | |
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| | (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛｜陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary | |
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| | to rent a room in a hotel / (of two people who are not married to each other) to rent a room for sex | |
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| | (slang) young boy who displays skills, maturity, or coolness beyond his age | |
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| | big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL: 門｜门, 尊 | |
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| | who's this big shot? | |
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| | Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods | |
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| | Shide, Tang Buddhist poet who lived at the Guoqing Temple on Mt Tiantai 天台山 | |
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| | one who is not prepared to risk his child will never catch the wolf (proverb) / (fig.) one who is unwilling to take risks will not achieve great things | |
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