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| | one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | HSK 1 |
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| | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | point / dot / drop / speck / o'clock / point (in space or time) / to draw a dot / to check on a list / to choose / to order (food in a restaurant) / to touch briefly / to hint / to light / to ignite / to pour a liquid drop by drop / (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更 / dot stroke in Chinese characters / classifier for items | HSK 1 |
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| | to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book) | HSK 1 |
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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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| | Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China / Peking / PRC government | HSK 1 |
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| | also / too / (in Classical Chinese) final particle implying affirmation | HSK 2 |
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| | to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese) | HSK 2 |
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| | ticket / ballot / banknote / CL: 張|张 / person held for ransom / amateur performance of Chinese opera / classifier for groups, batches, business transactions | HSK 2 |
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| | currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon | HSK 3 |
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| | Chinese language | HSK 3 |
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| | horse / CL: 匹 / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess | HSK 3 |
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| | bird / CL: 隻|只, 群 / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn | HSK 3 |
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| | north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River | HSK 3 |
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| | fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86 | HSK 4 |
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| | joint; node / (bound form) section; segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize; to save / (bound form) moral integrity; chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour) | HSK 4 |
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| | 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 ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分) | HSK 4 |
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| | doctor / court academician (in feudal China) / Ph.D. | HSK 4 |
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| | Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech | HSK 4 |
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| | straight / to straighten / fair and reasonable / frank / straightforward / (indicates continuing motion or action) / vertical / vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | HSK 5 |
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| | first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° | HSK 5 |
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| | second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105° | HSK 5 |
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| | Renminbi (RMB) / Chinese Yuan (CNY) | HSK 5 |
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| | to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character | HSK 5 |
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| | 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 5 |
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| | phonetic writing / pinyin (Chinese romanization) | HSK 5 |
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| | the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) | HSK 5 |
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| | Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation / idiom / proverb / saying / adage / CL: 條|条, 本, 句 | HSK 5 |
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| | clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30° | HSK 5 |
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| | ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry | HSK 5 |
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| | tone / note / a tone (on a Chinese syllable) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 5 |
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| | martial arts chivalry (Chinese literary, theatrical and cinema genre) / knight-errant | HSK 6 |
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| | foreign (non-Chinese) / barbarian / classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance) / classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc) / classifier for situations: kind, sort | HSK 6 |
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| | third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl | HSK 6 |
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| | horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent | HSK 6 |
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| | the traditional Chinese calendar / the lunar calendar | HSK 6 |
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| | wing / area surrounding the bullseye of a target / to assist / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy / old variant of 翌 | HSK 6 |
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| | male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl | HSK 6 |
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| | to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters) | HSK 6 |
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| | one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支 / animal from the Chinese zodiac | HSK 6 |
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| | to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc) / (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge / (bound form) to govern; to rule / (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China) | HSK 6 |
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| | Chinese-style dress / cheongsam | HSK 6 |
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| | to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll) | HSK 6 |
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| | qigong, a traditional Chinese system of cultivating vital energy 氣|气 through coordinated breathing, movement and meditation | HSK 6 |
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| | simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字 | HSK 6 |
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| | traditional Chinese character | HSK 6 |
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| | (coll.) Bilibili, Chinese video-sharing website featuring scrolled user comments 彈幕|弹幕 overlaid on the videos | |
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| | USB key used as a security token in Chinese online banking | |
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| | component in Chinese characters, occurring in 青, 毒, 素 etc / see also 青字頭|青字头 | |
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| | "bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118) | |
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| | China / Chinese / surname Zhong | |
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| | abbr. for Zhejiang 浙江 province in east China | |
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| | abbr. for Sichuan Province 四川 in southwest China | |
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| | land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule | |
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| | China (alternate formal name) | |
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| | Heilongjiang province (Heilungkiang) in northeast China, abbr. 黑, capital Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨 / Heilongjiang river forming the border between northeast China and Russia / Amur river | |
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| | surname Wei / ancient Chinese state near present day Chongqing / Taiwan pr. [Wei2] | |
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| | Changsha prefecture-level city and capital of Hunan province in south central China | |
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| | not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
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| | Shijiazhuang, prefecture-level city and capital of Hebei Province 河北省 in north China | |
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| | Northeast China / Manchuria | |
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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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| | son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub- | |
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| | war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess) | |
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| | literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject) | |
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| | room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy | |
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| | simplified form of Chinese characters, as opposed to traditional form 繁體|繁体 | |
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| | Chengdu subprovincial city and capital of Sichuan province 四川 in southwest China | |
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| | intellectual property (in China, esp. since 2015, often used as an entertainment industry term for a creative work used as the basis of a new product, such as a manga adapted as a tv series, or the image of a cartoon character appearing on merchandise) | |
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| | thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條|条, 股, 根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city) | |
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| | generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods / abbr. for Vietnam 越南 | |
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| | board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / CL: 塊|块 / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious | |
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| | to strike a pose (Chinese opera) / (fig.) to make a public appearance / to come out in public (revealing one's true personality, opinions etc) / (of a product) to appear on the market or at a trade show etc | |
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| | Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad | |
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| | Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 長沙|长沙 | |
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| | division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands | |
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| | Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of imperial China (1644-1911) / surname Qing | |
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| | Chinese cabbage / pak choi / CL: 棵, 個|个 | |
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| | primal chaos / formless mass before creation in Chinese mythology / muddled / innocent as a baby | |
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| | Zhejiang province (Chekiang) in east China, abbr. 浙, capital Hangzhou 杭州 | |
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| | Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都 | |
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| | surname Wu / area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai / name of states in Southern China at different historical periods | |
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| | abbr. for China | |
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| | Shandong, province in northeast China, short name 魯|鲁, capital Jinan 濟南|济南 | |
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| | Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪 | |
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| | China United Telecommunications Corporation / aka China Unicom or Unicom / abbr. for 中國聯通|中国联通 | |
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| | Made in China 2025, strategic plan to upgrade Chinese industry especially in high-tech areas, approved by China's State Council in 2015 | |
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| | Machilus nanmu / Chinese cedar / Chinese giant redwood | |
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| | history / annals / title of an official historian in ancient China | |
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| | Xiaonei (Chinese social network website) | |
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| | Daxing'anling mountain range in northwest Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江 in northeast China / Daxing'anling prefecture | |
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| | Xi'an, sub-provincial city and capital of Shaanxi 陝西省|陕西省 in northwest China / see 西安區|西安区 | |
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| | Benxi prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China | |
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| | pen / pencil / writing brush / to write or compose / the strokes of Chinese characters / classifier for sums of money, deals / CL: 支, 枝 | |
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| | Fujian province (Fukien) in east China, abbr. 福 or 閩|闽, capital Fuzhou 福州 / Fujian province (Fukien) in Taiwan | |
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| | Guangdong province (Kwangtung) in south China, short name 粵|粤, capital Guangzhou 廣州|广州 | |
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| | Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil) / place name / to revive / used as phonetic in transliteration | |
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