| | to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory) | HSK 1 |
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| | to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word | HSK 2 |
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| | to explain / to illustrate / to indicate / to show / to prove / explanation / directions / caption / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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| | novel / fiction / CL: 本, 部 | HSK 4 |
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| | legend / folklore / to repeat from mouth to mouth / they say that... | HSK 5 |
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| | it is said that / reportedly | HSK 5 |
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| | can't say for sure / maybe | HSK 5 |
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| | to talk nonsense / drivel | HSK 5 |
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| | theory / doctrine | HSK 6 |
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| | to persuade | |
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| | to explain / to comment | |
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| | to expound Buddhist teachings | |
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| | way of speaking / wording / formulation / one's version (of events) / statement / theory / hypothesis / interpretation | |
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| | to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking | |
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| | (technical) manual / (book of) directions / synopsis (of a play or film) / specification (patent) / CL: 本 | |
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| | in other words / that is | |
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| | in other words / that is to say / so / thus | |
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| | an expression of opinion / according to some | |
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| | generally speaking | |
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| | as for / when it comes to | |
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| | to speak out / to declare (one's view) | |
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| | romantic fiction | |
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| | to come to an agreement / to complete negotiations | |
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| | to say sth | |
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| | to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly | |
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| | to state / to say (the quoted words) | |
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| | to discuss / reason (behind sth) | |
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| | though / although | |
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| | It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative) / to discuss / to recount | |
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| | short story | |
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| | as the proverb says / as they say... | |
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| | to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides | |
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| | to hit the nail on the head / to predict correctly | |
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| | to talk about / to mention / (preposition) as for | |
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| | speech / to deliver a speech | |
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| | to persuade / to convince / to talk sb over / Taiwan pr. [shui4 fu2] | |
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| | to mention / to bring up (a subject) / with regard to / as for | |
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| | prospectus | |
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| | to persuade / persuasion / to advise | |
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| | speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞|弹词 and 相聲|相声 / (music) rapping | |
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| | to lie / to tell an untruth | |
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| | School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | novelist | |
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| | hard to say / unpleasant to say / can't be sure | |
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| | to talk endlessly / talking of anything under the sun | |
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| | explicit explanation / to specify | |
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| | pornographic novel / dirty book | |
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| | Why is that? / How come? | |
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| | science fiction novel | |
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| | generally speaking / to sum up / in summary / in short | |
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| | information meeting | |
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| | to talk rubbish | |
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| | unable to say | |
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| | easy to deal with / not a problem / (polite answer) you flatter me | |
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| | as far as I'm concerned | |
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| | to recount / to tell of / to relate / (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history) | |
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| | to tell the truth / to tell it as it is | |
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| | in other words | |
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| | needless to say / it goes without saying | |
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| | unable to say / can't say precisely | |
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| | to have nothing to say (idiom) | |
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| | to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter | |
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| | to recount / to narrate / to give an account of | |
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| | to narrate | |
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| | to hear what was said | |
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| | it does not make sense | |
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| | to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition) | |
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| | Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎 in 2nd century | |
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| | heliocentric theory / the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe | |
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| | speechless | |
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| | popular tradition / folk legend | |
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| | strictly speaking | |
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| | persuasiveness | |
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| | hypothesis | |
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| | murder mystery (novel) / whodunit | |
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| | to have the final say / to be the one in charge | |
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| | to tell in detail | |
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| | a martial arts (wuxia) novel | |
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| | talking and laughing / to jest / cheerful and lively | |
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| | not to mention / leaving aside | |
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| | to speak frankly | |
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| | for example / for instance | |
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| | to not need dwell on (idiom) | |
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| | nothing serious / just hot air | |
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| | to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning | |
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| | in the final analysis / in the end | |
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| | novel | |
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| | folk art consisting of storytelling to music | |
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| | to talk from one's personal experience / to use oneself as an example | |
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| | gossip / hearsay / rumor | |
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| | can be counted or regarded as / to be able to tell or answer / to deserve mention | |
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| | novella | |
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| | generally speaking / in general | |
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| | flash fiction | |
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| | lunatic ravings / nonsense / pipe dream | |
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| | to put it simply / simply put | |
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| | strangely enough / oddly enough / strange to say | |
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| | to lay bare (actual facts, secrets etc) / to reveal | |
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