| | ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people | 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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| | name (of a person or thing) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 1 |
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| | 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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| | to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise | HSK 2 |
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| | name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people | HSK 2 |
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| | to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ) | HSK 2 |
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| | name (of a thing) / name (of an organization) | HSK 2 |
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| | to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name) | HSK 2 |
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| | list of names | HSK 2 |
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| | like that / in that way / or so / so / so very much / about / in that case | HSK 2 |
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| | to sign up / to enter one's name / to apply / to register / to enroll / to enlist | HSK 2 |
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| | exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam | HSK 2 |
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| | evening newspaper / (in a newspaper's name) Evening News | HSK 2 |
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| | surname and given name; full name | HSK 2 |
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| | the head of an institution whose name ends in 院 / chair of a board / president of a university / department head / dean / premier of the Republic of China / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | family name; surname / to be surnamed ... | HSK 2 |
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| | general; overall / to sum up / in every case; always; invariably / anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理 or 總編|总编 etc | HSK 3 |
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| | representative / delegate / CL: 位, 個|个, 名 / to represent / to stand for / on behalf of / in the name of | HSK 3 |
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| | local / regional / district (not necessarily formal administrative unit) / region / area / as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | to register (one's name) | HSK 4 |
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| | roll call / to mention sb by name / (to call or praise or criticize sb) by name | HSK 4 |
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| | hat / cap / (fig.) label / bad name / CL: 頂|顶 | HSK 4 |
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| | to sign (one's name with a pen etc) / to autograph / signature | HSK 5 |
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| | to sign (one's name) / signature | HSK 5 |
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| | to raise one's head / to gain ground / account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc | HSK 5 |
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| | name / term of address / title | HSK 5 |
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| | to sign one's name / to write brief comments on a document / inscribed bamboo stick (variant of 籤|签) / visa | HSK 5 |
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| | China (alternate formal name) | HSK 6 |
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| | life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc | HSK 6 |
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| | brand name / trademark | HSK 6 |
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| | name / titular / nominal / in name / ostensible purpose | HSK 6 |
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| | place name / toponym | HSK 6 |
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| | bronze medal / bronze plaque bearing a business name or logo etc / CL: 枚 | HSK 6 |
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| | well-known for sth / to become well known / to make one's mark / to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | generic name for hemp, flax etc / hemp or flax fiber for textile materials / sesame / CL: 縷|缕 / (of materials) rough or coarse / pocked / pitted / to have pins and needles or tingling / to feel numb | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to call out (a name etc) / to shout | HSK 7-9 |
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| | code name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | family name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the name of various contactless smart cards, notably Yikatong (mainly for public transport in Beijing) and iPASS (mainly for public transport in Taiwan) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to change one's name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hill / long and narrow highland / (used in place names) | |
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| | Shenyang subprovincial city and capital of Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China / old names include Fengtian 奉天, Shengjing 盛京 and Mukden | |
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| | Hotan, city and prefecture in Xinjiang / Wada (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | visiting card / name card | |
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| | Ishikawa (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | surname Qin / Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇 / short name for 陝西|陕西 | |
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| | character size / font size / fame / reputation / shop / name of a shop | |
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| | Ōno (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Koizumi (name) / KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō, Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006 | |
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| | short name for Taiyuan 太原 | |
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| | BYD Company (company name) | |
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| | short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳 | |
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| | surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province | |
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| | to call together / to summon / to convene / temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia) | |
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| | prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4] | |
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| | courtesy name of Dr Sun Yat-sen / Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong, close to Sun Yat-sen's birthplace / Nakayama (Japanese surname) | |
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| | Marshall (name) / George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate | |
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| | Shandong, province in northeast China, short name 魯|鲁, capital Jinan 濟南|济南 | |
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| | Anhui Province, short name 皖, capital Hefei 合肥 | |
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| | short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁 province / Liao or Khitan dynasty (916-1125) | |
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| | Jiading district of northwest Shanghai / final reign name 1208-1224 of South Song emperor Ningzong 寧宗|宁宗 | |
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| | Shōwa, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (1925-1989) of emperor Hirohito 裕仁 | |
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| | surname Yi / alternative name for 絳|绛, the capital of the Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-475 BC) | |
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| | Chongqing (Chungking), formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, short name 渝 | |
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| | Xihu or West lake (place name) / West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang / Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan | |
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| | Sêrxü county (Tibetan: ser shul rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet) / name of several historical figures | |
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| | surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history | |
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| | Mark (name) | |
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| | Lianjiang, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市, Fujian / Lienchiang County, the official name of the Matsu Islands 馬祖列島|马祖列岛, a county of the ROC (based in Taiwan) | |
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| | short name for Shanghai | |
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| | to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白) | |
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| | David (name) / Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), French neoclassical painter | |
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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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| | ancient place name / surname Hao | |
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| | Wuji county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊地區|石家庄地区, Hebei / The Promise (name of film by Chen Kaige) | |
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| | Hebei province (Hopeh) in north China surrounding Beijing, short name 冀, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄 | |
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| | a silver or gold ingot / mock ingot (burnt as offering in worship) / a name for ancient currency / a rare genius | |
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| | (used in names of people and shops, symbolizing prosperity) | |
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| | Asahi (Japanese place name, company name etc) | |
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| | used in the names of various herbaceous plants | |
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| | Matsuo (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | name / designation / item / rubric / (formal usage) fame | |
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| | Martin (name) | |
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| | Hill (name) / Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs | |
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| | Liaoning province in northeast China, short name 遼|辽, capital Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳 | |
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| | Lincoln (name) / Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US president 1861-1865 / Lincoln, US car make | |
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| | Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖 / Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name) | |
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| | Tangshan prefecture-level city in Hebei / China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese) | |
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| | Nakano (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Matsumoto (Japanese surname and place name) | |
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| | Bell (person name) | |
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| | Rong, another name for Fuzhou 福州 | |
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| | Guiyang prefecture-level city and capital of Guizhou province 貴州|贵州, short name 筑 | |
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| | surname Lu / Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东 | |
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