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  *元* | 元* | *元
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first; original; primary / (bound form) basic; fundamental / (bound form) constituent; part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument; variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon
HSK 1
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  *毛* | 毛* | *毛
hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen )
HSK 1
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  *遠* | 遠* | *遠
far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc)
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  *分* | 分* | *分
to divide; to separate / to distribute; to allocate / to distinguish (good and bad) / (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局) / fraction / one tenth (of certain units) / unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm / minute (unit of time) / minute (angular measurement unit) / a point (in sports or games) / 0.01 yuan (unit of money)
HSK 1
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  *米* | 米* | *米
uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan
HSK 2
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  *院* | 院* | *院
courtyard / institution / CL: 個|个
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  *角* | 角* | *角
angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY)
HSK 3
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  *員* | 員* | *員
(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity / (bound form) member / classifier for military generals
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  *圓* | 圓* | *圓
circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)
HSK 4
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  *怨* | 怨* | *怨
to blame / (bound form) resentment; hatred; grudge
HSK 5
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  *願* | 願* | *願
(bound form) wish; hope; desire / to be willing / to wish (that sth may happen); may ... / vow; pledge
HSK 5
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  *愿* | 愿* | *愿
honest and prudent / variant of 願|愿
HSK 5
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  *原* | 原* | *原
former / original / primary / raw / level / cause / source
HSK 6
Parliament (UK) / Congress (US) / Diet (Japan) / Legislative Yuan (Taiwan)
HSK 6
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  *園* | 園* | *園
land used for growing plants / site used for public recreation / abbr. for a place ending in 園|园, such as a botanical garden 植物園|植物园, kindergarten 幼兒園|幼儿园 etc
HSK 6
fireworks / prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
HSK 6
paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張|张, 紮|扎
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  *冤* | 冤* | *冤
injustice / grievance / wrong
HSK 7-9
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  *寃* | 寃* | *寃
old variant of
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  *元* | 元* | *元
surname Yuan / Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
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  *原* | 原* | *原
surname Yuan / (Japanese surname) Hara
lit. progenitor of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), title of Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294
wedge / peg / stopper / prologue (in some modern novels) / prologue or interlude in Yuan dynasty drama
Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)
Li Ruzhen (c. 1763-c. 1830), Qing novelist and phonologist, author of fantasy novel Jinghua Yuan 鏡花緣|镜花缘 or Flowers in the Mirror
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  *遠* | 遠* | *遠
to distance oneself from (classical)
Executive Yuan, the executive branch of government under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan
Legislative Yuan, the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China
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  *援* | 援* | *援
to help / to assist / to aid
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  *緣* | 緣* | *緣
cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along
Yuan dynasty theater, including poetry, music and comedy
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  *苑* | 苑* | *苑
surname Yuan
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  *苑* | 苑* | *苑
(literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park / (literary) center (of arts, literature etc)
a piece; a chunk / (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as 這|这) aspect; area; dimension (Example: 情感這一塊|情感这一块 "the emotional aspect (of it)") / (coll.) one yuan; a dollar / together; in the same place; in company
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  *毫* | 毫* | *毫
hair / drawing brush / (in the) least / one thousandth / currency unit, 0.1 yuan
Dadu, capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), modern day Beijing
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  *袁* | 袁* | *袁
surname Yuan
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  *袁* | 袁* | *袁
long robe (old)
Judicial Yuan, the high court under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan
household with savings or annual income of 10,000 yuan or more (considered a large amount in the 1970s, when the term became established)
Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan 成吉思汗, first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294
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  *貟* | 貟* | *貟
old variant of 員|员
big head / mask in the shape of a big head / the larger end of sth / the main part / the lion's share / dupe / sucker / (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 on the obverse side
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
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  *源* | 源* | *源
root / source / origin
Control Yuan, a watchdog under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan
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  *垣* | 垣* | *垣
wall
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  *園* | 園* | *園
surname Yuan
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  *蝝* | 蝝* | *蝝
locust larva without wings
Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords
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  *猿* | 猿* | *猿
ape
Chung Yuan Christian University, in Taiwan
Xuan Yuan, personal name of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝
Examination Yuan, the qualification and appointment board under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan / exam board
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  *爰* | 爰* | *爰
surname Yuan
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  *爰* | 爰* | *爰
therefore / consequently / thus / hence / thereupon / it follows that / where? / to change (into) / ancient unit of weight and money
prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
perpetual calendar / ten thousand year calendar / Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁
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  *瑗* | 瑗* | *瑗
large jade ring
Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories
ocean / (old) silver dollar / (slang) Chinese yuan
National Protection Army of 1915 (in rebellion against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯)
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  *縁* | 縁* | *縁
Japanese variant of 緣|缘
On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原 in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
Wenzong Emperor, reign name of Yuan Dynasty emperor Tugh Temür (1304-1332), reigned 1328-1332
Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, now the site of Nanhaizi Park in the south of Beijing
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  *惌* | 惌* | *惌
to bear a grudge against
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  *螈* | 螈* | *螈
salamander / newt
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times
Yuan'an county in Yichang 宜昌, Hubei
Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
one Jiao coin (Mao, one-tenth of yuan)
a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy
the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
Sun Yat-sen's Five-power constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan / The five courts or are 行政院 Executive yuan, 立法院 Legislative yuan, 司法院 Judicial yuan, 考試院|考试院 Examination yuan, 監察院|监察院 Control yuan
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  *芫* | 芫* | *芫
lilac daphne (Daphne genkwa), used in Chinese herbal medicine
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  *夗* | 夗* | *夗
to turn over when asleep
Mongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times
Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
History of the Song Dynasty, twentieth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱 in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty , 496 scrolls / (not to be confused with 宋書|宋书)
Tianwen, or Questions to Heaven, a long poem by Chu Yuan 屈原 / Tianwen, a series of interplanetary missions developed by the China National Space Administration starting in 2016, named after the poem
History of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, twenty second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed under Toktoghan 脫脫|脱脱 in 1345 during the Yuan Dynasty , 135 scrolls
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  *黿* | 黿* | *黿
sea turtle
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  *圜* | 圜* | *圜
circle / round
History of the Yuan Dynasty, twenty third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Song Lian 宋濂 in 1370 during the Ming Dynasty, 210 scrolls
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
Toktoghan (1314-1355), Mongol politician during the Yuan dynasty, prime minister until 1345, compiled three dynastic histories of Song 宋史, Liao 遼史|辽史 and Jin 金史 / also written Tuoketuo 托克托
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  *笎* | 笎* | *笎
bamboo with black patches
near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)
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  *嫄* | 嫄* | *嫄
name of an empress
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  *邧* | 邧* | *邧
place name
shadbush or shadberry (genus Amelanchier) / painter and poet of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)
Yu'an, a district of Lu'an City 六安市, Anhui
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  *沅* | 沅* | *沅
Yuan river in Guizhou and Hunan
Four Great Yuan Dramatists, namely: Guan Hanqing 關漢卿|关汉卿, Zheng Guangzu 鄭光祖|郑光祖, Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠|马致远 and Bai Pu 白樸|白朴
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  *騵* | 騵* | *騵
chestnut horse with white belly
Jinghua Yuan or Flowers in the Mirror, Qing novel of fantasy and erudition (early 19th century) by Li Ruzhen 李汝珍

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