| | I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon / to let (sb) down; to disappoint | HSK 1 |
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| | I; me; my | HSK 1 |
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| | (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / ...right? / ...OK? / ...I presume. | HSK 2 |
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| | gate / door / CL: 扇 / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) | HSK 2 |
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| | band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL: 條|条 / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise | HSK 3 |
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| | east / host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest) / landlord | HSK 3 |
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| | at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force) | HSK 3 |
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| | to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately | HSK 3 |
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| | to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.) | HSK 4 |
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| | we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] | HSK 4 |
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| | a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門|门, 個|个, 位 | HSK 4 |
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| | to dare / daring / (polite) may I venture | HSK 4 |
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| | fear / to dread / I'm afraid that... / perhaps / maybe | HSK 4 |
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| | brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal | 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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| | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth) / (classical) power and wealth | HSK 5 |
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| | customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 5 |
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| | identity / aspect of one's identity (i.e. sth that one is – mayor, father, permanent resident etc) / role / capacity (as in "in his capacity as a ..." 以… 的身份) / status (social, legal etc) / position / rank | HSK 5 |
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| | newspaper (i.e. a company) / CL: 家 | 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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| | to reflect / reflection (from a mirror etc) / reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism) | 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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| | eternal / everlasting / fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die) | HSK 6 |
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| | to wrap; to pack / to put leftovers in a doggy bag for take-out / (computing) to package (i.e. create an archive file) | HSK 6 |
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| | only / just (i.e. it is only that...) / all except / unique | HSK 6 |
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| | to close; to seal off / to close down (an illegal venue) / closed (i.e. isolated from outside input) | HSK 6 |
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| | to count numbers / to keep to one's word / to hold (i.e. to remain valid) / to count (i.e. to be important) | HSK 6 |
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| | program (i.e. plan of action) / guiding principle | HSK 6 |
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| | to condense / to coagulate / coacervation (i.e. form tiny droplets) / aggregation / coherent | HSK 6 |
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| | I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned | HSK 6 |
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| | fireworks (i.e. pyrotechnic devices, not the display they produce) | HSK 6 |
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| | to put together an order and deliver it (i.e. 配貨|配货 and 送貨|送货) / to deliver (goods) | |
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| | (one's) original intention, aspiration etc / (Buddhism) "beginner's mind" (i.e. having an attitude of openness when studying a subject just as a beginner in that subject would) | |
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| | I (spoken by an old man) | |
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| | (bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) | |
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| | namely / that is / i.e. / prompt / at once / at present / even if / prompted (by the occasion) / to approach / to come into contact / to assume (office) / to draw near | |
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| | bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate | |
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| | to record in writing / to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc) / Taiwan pr. [zai4] / year | |
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| | concubine / I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women) | |
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| | eyesight (i.e. quality of vision) | |
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| | (used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we") / (literary) omen | |
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| | function / capability / sense (i.e. the five senses of sight 視|视, hearing 聽|听, smell 嗅, taste 味 and touch 觸|触) / faculty (i.e. specific ability) | |
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| | to sample; to taste / to appreciate / one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc); good taste | |
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| | to hold / to grasp / to support / to maintain / to persevere / to manage / to run (i.e. administer) / to control | |
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| | soul; mortal soul (i.e. attached to the body) | |
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| | frame (e.g. door frame) / casing / fig. framework / template / to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth) / to frame / to restrict / Taiwan pr. [kuang1] | |
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| | I (when talking to a superior) | |
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| | other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") | |
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| | one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with) / subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself) / belonging to / affiliated / under one's command | |
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| | to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society | |
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| | (old) I; my | |
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| | (archaic) I / me | |
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| | state official or subject in dynastic China / I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign) / Kangxi radical 131 | |
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| | external (i.e. not built-in 內置|内置) | |
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| | direction / strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology) / inclination / trend / to move towards / to head for | |
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| | younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter) | |
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| | to combine / combination / composite character (i.e. a synonym of 合體字|合体字) / (of clothes) to be a good fit | |
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| | to hide / to conceal / to mask / to shelter / to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden) / to hide oneself / to lie low / to nestle / hidden / implicit / private / covert / recessed (lighting) | |
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| | to steal / secretly / (humble) I | |
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| | to enjoy (i.e. have the use or benefit of) | |
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| | little brother / I, your little brother (humble) | |
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| | the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce) | |
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| | father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly) | |
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| | person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character | |
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| | I or me / we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to) | |
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| | age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta | |
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| | I / me / my / (often used in early vernacular literature) | |
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| | I / me / we / my home / our house | |
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| | adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | (military) to mount a secondary attack / (fig.) to assist in tackling a problem / (sports) to participate in a play in which a teammate scores (i.e. perform an assist) | |
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| | garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives / (fig.) retail investors who lose their money to more experienced operators (i.e. they are "harvested" like garlic chives) | |
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| | extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me | |
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| | to interpret / to comment and explain / to annotate / to perform (i.e. interpret a theatrical role) / to decode / interpretation / annotation | |
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| | minute (i.e. extremely small) / infinitesimal | |
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| | sage / the Sage (i.e. Confucius) / (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) Your sagacious Majesty / (religion) saint | |
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| | (literary) I; me / variant of 餘|余 | |
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| | oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc / (onom.) meow / kitty kitty! / Mimi (Western name) / tits (i.e. slang for breasts) | |
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| | high position / eminent status / top job / raised position / upper (limbs) / a high (i.e. local maximum) / high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc | |
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| | I'm afraid that... / perhaps / maybe / very likely | |
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| | foreign (i.e. of foreign nationality) | |
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| | shade (of a color, i.e. light or dark) | |
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| | I would like to ask (usually used rhetorically) / one might well ask | |
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| | (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom | |
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| | to send off (player for a foul) / to knock out (i.e. to beat in a knock-out tournament) / to eliminate / to call out / to kill off / to pull out of (a competition) / to retire (a runner in baseball) / out (i.e. man out in baseball) | |
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| | unspecified period / in the indefinite future / no fixed time / indefinite sentence (i.e. life imprisonment) | |
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| | sandpaper (i.e. abrasive) | |
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| | like the clouds in the sky (i.e. numerous) | |
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| | legendary person / legend (i.e. person) | |
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| | to shout (i.e. to say in a loud voice) (usually followed by the words shouted) / (old) (of yamen bailiffs etc) to walk ahead of an official, shouting at pedestrians to clear the way | |
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| | to take a lot of trouble (over sb or sth) / may I trouble you (to do sth) | |
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| | (Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our | |
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| | limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment) | |
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| | to be stupid / to cheat or deceive / me or I (modest) | |
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| | hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it | |
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| | to be an irksome presence (i.e. sth or sb one wishes were not there) | |
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| | time of day exactly on the hour (i.e. 12:00, 1:00 etc) / to make an inventory / (math.) point that has integer coordinates | |
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| | 2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up) | |
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| | convention (i.e. international agreement) | |
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| | athletic track / track / runway (i.e. airstrip) | |
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| | coronary (i.e. relating to the coronary arteries or veins) / crown-shaped | |
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