| | 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 go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) | HSK 1 |
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| | one side / either side / on the one hand / on the other hand / doing while | HSK 1 |
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| | either side; both sides | HSK 4 |
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| | or / either one or the other | HSK 5 |
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| | to press from either side / to place in between / to sandwich / to carry sth under armpit / wedged between / between / to intersperse / to mix / to mingle / clip / folder / Taiwan pr. [jia2] | HSK 5 |
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| | or / either one or the other | HSK 6 |
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| | otherwise / or else / how about...? / either... (or...) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to split the bill (where the male counterpart foots the larger portion of the sum) / (theater) a system where two actors take turns in acting the main role, with one actor replacing the other if either is unavailable | |
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| | cotyledon of a bean (i.e. either of the halves of a bean seed that can be split apart after removing the seed coat) / thick bean sauce (abbr. for 豆瓣醬｜豆瓣酱) | |
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| | equivalent to either 是 or 就是 | |
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| | both sides; either side | |
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| | bridgehead (military) / stronghold serving as a base for advancing further into enemy territory / bridge tower (ornamental structure at either end of a bridge) / (fig.) gateway (place that provides access to other places beyond it) / bridgehead (key location serving as a base for further expansion) | |
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| | either end of a bridge / a bridgehead | |
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| | all in all / either way | |
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| | reign title / era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part of it) / year number (such as 2016 or 甲子) | |
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| | first month (of either lunar or Western calendars) | |
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| | not a single one is dispensable / can't do without either | |
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| | to go by car (as either driver or passenger) | |
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| | lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom) | |
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| | slit on either side of robe | |
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| | the second of the three annual periods of hot weather ( 三伏), which begins in late July and lasts either 10 or 20 days, depending on the Chinese calendar in that year | |
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| | either this or that / one or the other | |
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| | (bound form) mostly used in either 冘豫 or 冘疑 | |
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| | (of a shoe) designed to be worn on a specific foot – either the left or the right | |
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| | an enlargement at the outer end of a drilled hole, either funnel-shaped (a countersink) or cylindrical (a counterbore) | |
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| | trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot | |
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| | (coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god) | |
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| | not to distinguish; to make no distinction / (LGBT slang) versatile (open to either penetrative or receptive role) | |
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| | (slang) Something awesome is about to happen! (originally, in a Japanese space battleship anime, it meant "Danger! High energy up ahead!" — a warning to either prepare for battle or take evasive action) | |
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| | United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945) | |
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| | shoe that can be worn on either foot | |
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| | lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound | |
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| | lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me | |
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| | any / either | |
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| | to compete again (i.e. either have a rematch or, when the scores are tied, have extra time) | |
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| | watchtower on either side of a city gate / (literary) city / imperial palace | |
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| | in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king (idiom) / (depending on the source, the last word is either 大王 or 大王) | |
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| | contradictions between ourselves and the enemy / Either you are for us or against us. | |
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| | shoe that can be worn on either foot | |
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| | immature green soy beans, either still in the pod (edamame) or removed from the pod | |
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| | to be either weak or strong both have their purpose (idiom) | |
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| | either ... / or ... | |
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| | a left-and-right pair of shoes (distinguished from 直腳鞋｜直脚鞋, shoes that can be worn on either foot) | |
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| | marginalized people (not part of mainstream society) / marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either) | |
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