| | 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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| | to research / to check / to investigate / to examine / to refer to / to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary) | HSK 2 |
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| | quilt / to cover (with) / (literary) to suffer (a misfortune) / used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊｜被旅游 to "go on a trip") | HSK 3 |
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| | in a word; in short | HSK 5 |
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| | in a word / in short / in brief | HSK 4 |
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| | word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression | HSK 2 |
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| | to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word | HSK 1 |
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| | word / statement; speech; lyrics / a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝 (CL: 首) | HSK 2 |
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| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個｜个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter) | HSK 1 |
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| | new word (in textbook) / word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied / CL: 組｜组, 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | (bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly / (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat / (bound form) to put in order; to straighten / (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate / (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb / (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to | HSK 3 |
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| | vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word | HSK 4 |
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| | (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊 after a word ending in "n") | HSK 4 |
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| | to not say a word | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (linguistics) auxiliary word; function word; particle | |
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| | used in 喇舌 to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue" | |
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| | (slang) swearword / four-letter word | |
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| | compound word | |
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| | to introduce sb, putting in a good word for them in advance | |
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| | one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom) / (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect / each word is highly valued | |
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| | every word and action (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | euphemism / word used to avoid a taboo reference | |
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| | to associate (cognitively) / to make an associative connection / mental association / word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs | HSK 5 |
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| | without missing a word | |
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| | promise / one's word / pledge / abbreviation | |
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| | to avoid a taboo word or topic / to refrain from; to avoid | |
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| | there is a great deal of ... (typically followed by a bisyllabic word, as in 大有希望) / (literary) bumper harvest; abundance | |
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| | one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight | |
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| | one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell | |
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| | a nobleman's word is his bond (proverb) | |
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| | word processing | |
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| | basic word | |
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| | one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice / words of enormous weight | |
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| | to greet sb by word or action / to give prior notice | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) word for word; verbatim; without a single mistake or omission | |
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| | to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable) | |
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| | in short / in a word / in brief | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) / to keep silent | |
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| | one word says it all (idiom) / to hit the nail on the head / to be pithy and correct | |
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| | corrective influence / to reform (a criminal) / redemption (of a sinner) / to influence (a malefactor to a better life) / to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example | |
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| | etymology / origin of a word | |
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| | old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word / to blow hot and cold / to contradict oneself / inconsistent | |
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| | (of news etc) so thrilling that everyone is rejoicing and spreading the word (Internet slang) / acronym from 喜聞樂見｜喜闻乐见, 大快人心, 普天同慶｜普天同庆 and 奔走相告 | |
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| | friendly advice / words spoken on sb's behalf / a good word / kind words / words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions | |
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| | single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language) | |
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| | key word | |
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| | (idiom) just a word or two; a few isolated phrases | |
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| | to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom) | |
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| | not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers | |
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| | oral command / a word of command (used in drilling troops or gymnasts) / password (used by sentry) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | polyseme / polysemous word | |
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| | to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song) / (coll.) to challenge | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head) / I don't understand a word (idiom) / it's all Greek to me | |
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| | to spread (by word of mouth) | |
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| | to extend (the meaning of a word, an analogy etc) / derivation | |
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| | qualified word | |
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| | classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word | |
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| | (idiom) every word is a gem | |
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| | keep silent / not say a word | |
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| | native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄｜蝼蛄) | |
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| | weighing every word | |
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| | (linguistics) content word | |
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| | (slang) to cheer sb on; to show one's support ("call" read as the English word) | |
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| | to agree implicitly / of one mind / views coincide without a word exchanged | |
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| | sense (of a word) | |
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| | to utter a word | |
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| | etymology (of a non-Chinese word) / origin of a character | |
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| | compound word | |
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| | a guild / (in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild / the Japanese word for company | |
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| | variant spelling of the same Chinese word, e.g. 筆劃｜笔划 and 筆畫｜笔画 / exact synonym and homonym written with different characters | |
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| | disyllabic word / polysyllabic word | |
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| | to change one's mind / to go back on one's word | |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | number of written characters; number of words; word count | |
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| | ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子) | |
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| | abbreviated word / acronym | |
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| | to speak and keep one's promise (idiom); as good as one's word | |
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| | Iron Curtain (1945-1991) (In Taiwan, the word was used to refer to both the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain.) | |
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| | participle / word segmentation | |
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| | to combine words / word formation | |
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| | that one / that thing / that (as opposed to this) / (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis) / (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word) / (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc) / (euph.) menstruation / sex / also pr. [nei4 ge5] | |
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| | (linguistics) function word | |
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| | to copy word for word | |
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| | word / phrase / (old) (grammar) function word / predicate | |
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| | (linguistics) single-morpheme word / simple word | |
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| | to pronounce a word after mentally processing its spelling / (phonics) blending | |
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| | to use the tabooed name 名諱｜名讳 of hierarchical superiors (old) / to violate a taboo / to use a taboo word or character | |
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| | to write characters in simplified form / the simplified form of a character / to abbreviate (a word or expression) / to write in simple language | |
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| | capacity / quantity / amount / to estimate / abbr. for 量詞｜量词, classifier (in Chinese grammar) / measure word | |
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| | title word / entry (in dictionary) | |
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| | to tag sb with unfair label / power word | |
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| | to not say a word (idiom) | |
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| | to utter a word / to make a sound / to cheep / to squeak / also pr. [zi1 sheng1] | |
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| | rumors / the word on the street | |
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| | lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom); tight-lipped / reticent / not breathing a word | |
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| | children of officials / word created by analogy with 富二代 | |
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| | to take a letter / to send word | |
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| | Buddhist allegorical word or gesture; subtleties of Buddhist doctrine | |
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