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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
world
HSK 3
World Cup
HSK 3
nature (the natural world)
HSK 2
the human world / the earth
HSK 5
the whole world / worldwide; global
HSK 3
shopping mall / shopping center / department store / emporium / CL: / the business world
HSK 1
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
(soccer slang) spectacular, world-class goal; wonder goal (originally Cantonese: is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bo1])
(idiom) world-shaking
HSK 7-9
(ACG) another world; parallel universe (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 異世界 "isekai")
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
World Trade Organization (WTO)
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
World War II
the netherworld; the world of the dead
ranked number one in the world / the world's first
industry / the world of business
HSK 7-9
the ways of the world
underneath / below / the underside / world of mortals / to descend to the world of mortals (of gods)
World Health Organization (WHO)
two-dimensional / the fictional worlds of anime, comics and games
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *世* | 世* | *世
life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble
world famous
global economy; world economy
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
nature / the natural world
HSK 7-9
throughout the world
lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world
World Health Organization (WHO) (abbr. for 世界衛生組織|世界卫生组织)
peak / apex / world best / number one / finest (competitors) / top (figures in a certain field)
HSK 7-9
worldly affairs / the ways of the world
five continents / the whole world
tech tree; pattern or sequence of technological development (in gaming or metaphorically in real-world innovation)
world war
the wider world / diverse aspects of society
personnel / human resources / human affairs / ways of the world / (euphemism) sexuality / the facts of life
HSK 7-9
Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day
Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist and author of "Brave New World" 美麗新世界|美丽新世界
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
enduring while the world lasts (idiom) / eternal
HSK 7-9
World Expo (abbr. for 世界博覽會|世界博览会)
World Health Organization (WHO) (abbr. for 世界衛生組織|世界卫生组织)
WTO (World Trade Organization)
abbr. for 世界博覽會|世界博览会, World Expo
World War Two
mountain resort / Qing imperial summer residence at Chengde, a world heritage site
World Economic Forum
world famous
the creation of the world
three-dimensional / the real world (cf. 二次元)
world record
the past / impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism)
worldview / world outlook / Weltanschauung
worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world
business world / business community
people (in general); people around the world; everyone
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *物* | 物* | *物
(bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
the world / this world / the world of the living
heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity
HSK 7-9
world trade / global trade
A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆
World Trade Center
World War II
the other end of the world / a faraway place
generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)
World Bank
world championship
the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce)
to die / to depart from the world forever
(slang) (jocular) "city bumpkin", city person lacking basic rural or natural-world knowledge (play on 鄉巴佬|乡巴佬)
World food program (United Nations aid agency)
World Trade Organization (WTO) / abbr. for 世界貿易組織|世界贸易组织
around the world / worldwide
HSK 7-9
World Trade Center
the entertainment world; show business
World War I (1914–1918)
world power
end of the world
World War Two
to make known to the masses (idiom); to publicize widely / to let the world know
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
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun
the world in chaos / troubled times / (in Buddhism) the mortal world
in the wider world there are people more talented than oneself (idiom)
(fig.) the whole world
Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC), skyscraper
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
Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙 published in 1624
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抖* | 抖* | *抖
to tremble / to shake out / to reveal / to make it in the world
HSK 7-9
World Wide Web
a world of ice and snow
affairs of life / things of the world
World Expo / abbr. to 世博
everything is fine (idiom); all is well with the world

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