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  *最* | 最* | *最
(before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est / (after ) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最 "the greatest in the world")
HSK 1
shopping mall / shopping center / department store / emporium / CL: / the business world
HSK 1
nature (the natural world)
HSK 2
the whole world / worldwide; global
HSK 3
world / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
World Cup
HSK 3
the human world / the earth
HSK 5
the outside world / external
HSK 5
worldwide / entire world
HSK 5
land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule
HSK 6
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  *抖* | 抖* | *抖
to tremble / to shake out / to reveal / to make it in the world
HSK 7-9
heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity
HSK 7-9
time and place / world of a particular locale and era / (physics) space-time
HSK 7-9
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  *凡* | 凡* | *凡
ordinary / commonplace / mundane / temporal / of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels) / every / all / whatever / altogether / gist / outline / note of Chinese musical scale
HSK 7-9
peak / apex / world best / number one / finest (competitors) / top (figures in a certain field)
HSK 7-9
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  *坛* | 坛* | *坛
altar / platform; rostrum / (bound form) (sporting, literary etc) circles; world
HSK 7-9
around the world / worldwide
HSK 7-9
personnel / human resources / human affairs / ways of the world / (euphemism) sexuality / the facts of life
HSK 7-9
enduring while the world lasts (idiom) / eternal
HSK 7-9
unrivaled (idiom); world number one / unique / unequaled
HSK 7-9
world-famous (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world / (esp. of a child) sensible; thoughtful; intelligent
HSK 7-9
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
industry / the world of business
HSK 7-9
nature / the natural world
HSK 7-9
world-class
HSK 7-9
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  *物* | 物* | *物
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
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  *世* | 世* | *世
life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
World Pi Day, a celebration of the mathematical constant π on March 14 each year
World War II
the other end of the world / a faraway place
ghost world
the teeming world / the world of sensual pleasures
enduring while the world lasts (idiom, from Laozi); eternal / for ever and ever (of friendship, hate etc) / also written 天長地久|天长地久
(fig.) the whole world
World University Games (formerly "Universiade") (abbr. for 大學生運動會|大学生运动会)
(Buddhism) the world of the living
the world / this world / the world of the living
time immemorial / origin of the universe / the world
World Trade Organization (WTO) / abbr. for 世界貿易組織|世界贸易组织
the ends of the earth / separated worlds apart
to cut off; to isolate / isolated (from the world)
all black, no daylight (idiom); a world without justice
affairs of life / things of the world
underneath / below / the underside / world of mortals / to descend to the world of mortals (of gods)
the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce)
people (in general); people around the world; everyone
to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status
the whole world / throughout the land / everything under the sun
Jeju Island special autonomous province (Cheju Island), South Korea, a World Heritage site
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun
the world of the living
generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)
world championship
sporting circles / the world of sport
(of immortals) to descend to the human world
the literary world
world of the immortals; a fairyland; a paradise
the world of mortals (Buddhism) / human society / worldly affairs
lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world
the world in chaos / troubled times / (in Buddhism) the mortal world
mundane world (in religious context) / this mortal coil
a world of ice and snow
the past / impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism)
to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
World Expo (abbr. for 世界博覽會|世界博览会)
to see through / disillusioned with / to reject (the world of mortals)
Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), leading French general at the start of World War One
(idiom) world-shaking
academic world / academic circles / academia
hell / the nether world / Hades
to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
to rapidly go up in the world / meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)
with great virtue one can take charge of the world (idiom)
outside world / society
lit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world / all-powerful
lit. the difference between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference; a world of difference; a far cry (from)
Deep Blue, chess-playing computer, first to defeat reigning world champion, developed by IBM (1985-1997)
(idiom) to consider oneself unexcelled in the world; to be insufferably arrogant
to shun the world
World Honored One / Revered One of the World (Buddha)
throughout the world / world ranking (e.g. first)
Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site / Dujiangyan, county-level city in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan
World Bank (abbr. for 世界銀行|世界银行)
world-famous
lower bound (math.) / world of mortals / (of gods) to descend to the world of mortals
perfect (idiom); perfection / the best of all possible worlds / as good as it gets
the mundane world; the world of mortals
the whole world at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
abbr. for 世界博覽會|世界博览会, World Expo
place of charm and beauty / scenery of exceptional charm / completely different world
so close, yet worlds apart (idiom)
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang)
Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal / Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname)
to make known to the masses (idiom); to publicize widely / to let the world know
the ways of the world
everything is fine (idiom); all is well with the world
(religion) this mortal life; the mundane world
World Economic Forum

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