| | he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant) / (used before sb's name for emphasis) / (used as a meaningless mock object) / (literary) other | HSK 1 |
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| | what are you doing? / what's he up to? | HSK 1 |
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| | other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") | HSK 4 |
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| | surname He | |
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| | (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / that (preceding a noun) | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | (Cantonese) he, she, it | |
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| | (classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion) | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL: 條｜条) / (literary) big; great / (dialect) he; she; him; her / (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe | |
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| | Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning | |
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| | lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful | |
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| | (onom.) he he / mischievous laughter | |
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| | Yellow River or Huang He | |
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| | to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down | |
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| | He river in Shandong | |
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| | He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow. | |
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| | with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be | |
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| | a student should not be guided until he has made an effort to express his thoughts (idiom) | |
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| | dabbler / dilettante who speaks as though he were an expert | |
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| | lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken | |
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| | lit. to beat a drowning dog (idiom) / fig. to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy / to hit sb when he's down | |
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| | he / she / (courteous, as opposed to 他) | |
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| | did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc) | |
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| | each takes what he needs (idiom) | |
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| | he or she | |
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| | lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose | |
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| | lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom) / fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用｜卢藏用, who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court) | |
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| | lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信｜韩信 being made Grand General 大將軍｜大将军 / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor | |
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| | lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he'll want a mile | |
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| | to allow (sb to do as he pleases) | |
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| | each one does what he thinks is right (idiom) / each goes his own way | |
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| | a student shall not be enlightened until he has tried hard by himself (idiom) | |
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| | lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose | |
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| | with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be | |
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| | to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down | |
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| | lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends. | |
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| | surname He | |
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| | Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom | |
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| | Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口) | |
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| | Xiao He (-193 BC), famous strategist and chancellor, fought on Liu Bang's 劉邦｜刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭｜楚汉战争 | |
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| | Xie He (479-502), portrait painter from Qi of Southern dynasties 南齊｜南齐 | |
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| | custom of placing a variety of articles (writing brush, abacus etc) before an infant on its first birthday to see which one he or she picks up (The article chosen is supposed to be an indication of the child's inclinations, future career etc.) | |
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| | He county in Guangxi | |
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| | Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer | |
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| | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
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| | He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | He Chao (active c. 711), Tang dynasty poet | |
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| | Chinese treasure ship, a type of large sailing ship in the fleet of Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 | |
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| | Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters) / sb who keeps to their word no matter what | |
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| | He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom). / Be careful not to trust foreigners. / Beware of Greeks bearing gifts! | |
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| | "he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫) | |
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| | (neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay) | |
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| | He County or Hexian, a county in Ma'anshan 馬鞍山｜马鞍山, Anhui | |
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| | He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience. | |
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| | a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom) | |
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| | lit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives / fig. speak of the devil and he doth appear | |
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| | He Jinli, Chinese name adopted by Kamala Harris (1964-), US vice president 2021- | |
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| | lit. when a man stands straight, he doesn't worry that his shadow is slanting (idiom) / fig. as long as one conducts oneself honorably, one need not worry about what people think; a clean hand wants no washing | |
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| | lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs, who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor) | |
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| | lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom) / fig. everybody's business is nobody's business / (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.) | |
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| | Sanbao Eunuch, official title of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 / also written 三保太監｜三保太监 | |
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| | to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 to regions bordering the Indian Ocean) | |
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| | he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear conscience | |
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| | not to forgive easily / not to let off / (You, He) won't get away with it! | |
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| | Maritime Day (July 11th) commemorating the first voyage of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 in 1405 AD | |
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| | where do these words stem from? / why do you (he, etc) say such a thing? | |
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| | He Houhua (1955-), Macau financier and politician, Chief Executive 1999-2009 | |
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| | He Yingqin (1890-1987), senior Guomindang general | |
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| | (idiom) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study | |
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| | lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. a nobleman who has seen a living animal cannot bear to see it die, hence he keeps away from the kitchen | |
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| | James Soong (1942-), Taiwanese politician expelled from Guomindang in 2000 when he founded People First Party 親民黨｜亲民党 | |
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| | What's (he) up to? / What's the motive behind all this? | |
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| | nickname for US President Trump 川普, implying that he benefitted China (hence 建國｜建国) by doing a poor job of leading the US | |
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| | Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河｜黄河 Huang He river | |
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| | to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she urinates | |
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| | to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she defecates | |
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| | lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends. | |
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| | lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow / fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends. | |
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| | single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated) | |
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| | if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom) / to regret vainly one's past behavior | |
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| | (neologism c. 2020) an ordinary guy who imagines he is God's gift to womankind | |
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| | Li He (790-816), Tang poet | |
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| | lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people along the road cheered a horseman on as he galloped past, until the horse died of exhaustion) / fig. beware of becoming complacent when everyone is cheering you on | |
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| | (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛｜陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary | |
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| | nothing he can't do | |
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| | (coll.) he-man | |
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| | if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes | |
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| | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people | |
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| | (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫｜刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes | |
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| | to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she urinates | |
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| | to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she defecates | |
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| | who do (you) think (you) are? / who does (he, she etc) think (he, she) is? | |
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| | lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise | |
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| | hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions | |
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| | hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions | |
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| | what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on? | |
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| | He laughs best who laughs last. | |
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