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HSK
to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL: 個|个, , 項|项
HSK 1
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  *手* | 手* | *手
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只
HSK 1
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  *班* | 班* | *班
team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift / CL: 個|个 / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
HSK 1
to finish work; to get off work / next service (train, bus, etc)
HSK 1
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  *幹* | 幹* | *幹
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed
HSK 1
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  *累* | 累* | *累
tired / weary / to strain / to wear out / to work hard
HSK 1
to go to work / to be on duty / to start work / to go to the office
HSK 1
to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind
HSK 1
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  *事* | 事* | *事
matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL: , 樁|桩,
HSK 1
unit (of measure) / unit (group of people as a whole) / work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
HSK 2
to practice / field work / to intern / internship
HSK 2
won't do / be out of the question / be no good / not work / not be capable
HSK 2
school assignment / homework / work / task / operation / CL: 個|个 / to operate
HSK 2
way of handling sth / method for making / work method / recipe / practice / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to work a temporary or casual job / (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
HSK 2
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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
work (of art) / opus / CL: ,
HSK 3
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
HSK 3
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  *室* | 室* | *室
room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy
HSK 3
to show / to show off / to display / to manifest / expression / manifestation / show / display / performance (at work etc) / behavior
HSK 3
artificial / manpower / manual work
HSK 3
to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
HSK 3
duty; obligation (CL:項|项) / volunteer (work etc)
HSK 4
to handle (affairs) / to work
HSK 4
to exercise / to keep fit / to work out / physical exercise
HSK 4
to toughen / to temper / to engage in physical exercise / to work out / (fig.) to develop one's skills / to train oneself
HSK 4
to work / to operate / to manipulate
HSK 4
to work overtime
HSK 4
to work out / to formulate
HSK 4
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)
HSK 5
business / professional work / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 5
work / toil / physical labor / CL:
HSK 5
to work a shift / on duty
HSK 5
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  *劇* | 劇* | *劇
theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc) / dramatic (change, increase etc) / acute / severe
HSK 6
quality goods / premium product / fine work (of art)
HSK 6
to handle official business (usu. in an office); to do (office) work
HSK 6
to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night
HSK 6
to divide up the work / division of labor
HSK 6
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
workload; volume of work
HSK 7-9
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  *功* | 功* | *功
meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)
HSK 7-9
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  *宗* | 宗* | *宗
school / sect / purpose / model / ancestor / clan / to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work) / classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs
HSK 7-9
racing bicycle; racing car; sports car / to drive a vehicle (such as a truck or taxi) for a living / (of a conductor or attendant) to work on a train / (mining) (of a cable-car) to slip away (in an accident)
HSK 7-9
to work / to operate / to revolve / to turn around
HSK 7-9
service (work done for money) / services (as in "goods and services")
HSK 7-9
volunteer worker / volunteer work
HSK 7-9
work-related matters / documents
HSK 7-9
(political, economic etc) affairs / work / transaction (as in a computer database)
HSK 7-9
to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation) / to start a construction job
HSK 7-9
rate of work / power (output)
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
style / style of work / way
HSK 7-9
course / stream / sequence of processes / work flow in manufacturing
HSK 7-9
amphibious / dual-talented / able to work in two different lines
HSK 7-9
work / (lots of) things to do
HSK 7-9
bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
HSK 7-9
dedicated to one's work
HSK 7-9
to work with a common purpose (idiom); to make concerted efforts / to pull together / to work as one
HSK 7-9
to work hard / to look after
HSK 7-9
to work part-time while studying / work-study program
HSK 7-9
work more and get more
HSK 7-9
to work hard for sth / to resolve on improvement / determined not to fall short
HSK 7-9
major achievement / great work / triumphant success
HSK 7-9
to train hard / to practice diligently / hard work / blood, sweat, and tears
HSK 7-9
to take the big picture into consideration (idiom) / to work for the benefits of all
HSK 7-9
fine work / carefully and neatly done
HSK 7-9
to work hard for / to do all one can / to contend strongly
HSK 7-9
to seek one's livelihood / to work to support oneself / to earn a living
HSK 7-9
working hand; member of a work team; participant / the boss (short form of 第一把手)
HSK 7-9
to slacken off in one's work / to go slow (as a form of strike)
HSK 7-9
sense of movement (often in a static work of art) / dynamic / vivid / lifelike
HSK 7-9
time interval / work shift / time slot / the twelve two-hour divisions of the day
HSK 7-9
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
HSK 7-9
to create (sth original) / original / originality / original work
HSK 7-9
to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
HSK 7-9
original work (not translation or abridged)
to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom) / jerry-building / sloppy work
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  *工* | 工* | *工
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
plowing and weeding / farm work / fig. to work or study diligently
first publication; maiden work
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  *典* | 典* | *典
canon / law / standard work of scholarship / literary quotation or allusion / ceremony / to be in charge of / to mortgage or pawn
to work hard / to do one's very best / to throw oneself into the task at hand
lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom); fig. to work on two tasks at the same time / to attack one problem from two angles at the same time
happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom) / all take and no give
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
to finish work / to complete a project
to change shift / the next work shift / to relieve (a workman on the previous shift) / to take over the job
to lend sb a knife to kill sb / to get sb else to do one's dirty work / to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
to work / to handle matters / to have a job
background (academic and work) / curriculum vitae / résumé
opening (chess etc) / early stage of game, match, work, activity etc
(idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals; to be completely wrapped up in one's work
virgin; maiden / maiden (voyage etc); virgin (land); (a novelist's) first (work)
to go to work / to start work
to work one's shift
detective / to do detective work
(of a student) to work part-time (while continuing one's studies) / (of a delinquent) to be reformed through work and study

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