| | to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book) | HSK 1 |
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| | to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文 / abbr. for 開本|开本, book format | HSK 1 |
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| | to read a book / to study / to attend school | HSK 1 |
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| | good-looking / nice-looking / good (of a movie, book, TV show etc) / embarrassed / humiliated | HSK 1 |
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| | book / letter / document / CL: 本, 冊|册, 部 / to write | HSK 1 |
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| | book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: 本 / edition | HSK 1 |
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| | specific topic (addressed by a book, lecture, TV program etc) / article, report or program etc on a specific topic | HSK 3 |
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| | to place an order / to book ahead | HSK 4 |
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| | to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc) / to congeal; to coagulate / (literary) definitely | HSK 4 |
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| | to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book | HSK 4 |
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| | scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll | HSK 4 |
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| | to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL: 部 | HSK 4 |
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| | book / booklet / classifier for books | HSK 5 |
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| | (technical) manual / (book of) directions / synopsis (of a play or film) / specification (patent) / CL: 本 | HSK 6 |
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| | booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment | HSK 6 |
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| | pocket-sized / pocket (book etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to decrease; to lose / to damage; to harm / (coll.) to ridicule; to deride / (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 / gossip / gossipy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to follow the rules / to do as instructed / to play by the book / to comply with a request | HSK 7-9 |
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| | fragment (of speech etc) / extract (from book etc) / episode (of story etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | grave / tomb / CL: 座 / embankment / mound / ancient book | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shift in the trend of events / turnaround / plot shift in a book / turn in the conversation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | this text / article / the main body of a book | |
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| | main text (as opposed to footnotes) / main body (of a book) | |
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| | your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly | |
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| | ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes | |
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| | ancient book / old book | |
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| | a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica | |
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| | entire book; unabridged book | |
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| | (Tw) to cram; to study (from Taiwanese 齧書, Tai-lo pr. [khè su], lit. to gnaw a book) / see also 啃書|啃书 | |
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| | divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 | |
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| | permanent / constant / fixed / usual / ordinary / rule (old) / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes ( ䷟) | |
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| | Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC | |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi | |
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| | (often used in book or chapter titles) general introduction; overview | |
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| | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 | |
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| | to make known / to show / to prove / to write / book / outstanding | |
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| | to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc) / to finalize / to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves) | |
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| | a book / a volume | |
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| | abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经, the Book of Songs | |
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| | The Book of Family Names, anonymous Song dynasty reading primer listing 438 surnames | |
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| | part of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 / a song / a poem set to elegant music / a refined chant / the biblical Song of Solomon | |
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| | The Book of Changes ("I Ching") | |
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| | to study attentively (a book) / to delve into | |
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| | lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經|诗经); fig. to plan ahead / to prepare for a rainy day | |
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| | Yi Zhuan, commentary on the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" 易經|易经 | |
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| | Book of Jonah | |
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| | electronic book / e-book / e-book reader | |
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| | random thoughts / (in book titles etc) impressions / jottings | |
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| | fully booked / every seat taken | |
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| | capital / assets / savings / nest egg / (fig.) reputation / laurels (to rest upon) / old edition of a book / (tree) trunk | |
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| | hardcover (book) / elaborately packaged / opposite: 簡裝|简装 | |
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| | biography recounting apocryphal anecdotes and rumors / (old) book of exegesis of a classic | |
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| | Six Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, Book of History 尚書|尚书, Book of Rites 儀禮|仪礼, the lost Book of Music 樂經|乐经, Book of Changes 易經|易经, Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋 | |
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| | pornographic novel / dirty book | |
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| | Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄 | |
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| | book format, similar to in-4°, in-8° etc (a 16-kai format 16 開|16 开 is roughly A4) (abbr. to 開|开) | |
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| | study of the Book of Changes 易經|易经 | |
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| | quotation (from a book or existing source) | |
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| | Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| | outer skin / surface / leather cover (of a book) / drum skin / leather upper (of a shoe) | |
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| | reference book | |
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| | lit. to gnaw a book / to study / to cram | |
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| | history book | |
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| | reader / an instructional book | |
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| | scroll (book or painting) | |
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| | bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times) / letter; correspondence; book; document | |
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| | exercise book / workbook / CL: 本 | |
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| | envelope / wrapper / (book) jacket / (record) sleeve | |
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| | at a glance / (in book titles) overview | |
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| | book cover / book jacket | |
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| | Jimmy Liao (1958-), pen name of 廖福彬, Taiwanese illustrator and picture book writer | |
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| | the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, Book of History 尚書|尚书, Rites of Zhou 周禮|周礼, Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮|仪礼, Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记, Book of Changes 易經|易经, Mr Zuo's Annals 左傳|左传, Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊傳|公羊传, Mr Guliang's Annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传, The Analects 論語|论语, Erya 爾雅|尔雅, Classic of Filial Piety 孝經|孝经, Mencius 孟子 | |
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| | can bow and submit, or can stand tall (idiom, from Book of Changes); ready to give and take / flexible | |
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| | the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 and the Book of History 書經|书经 | |
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| | to compile (various texts) into book form / a compilation | |
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| | you can't judge a person by appearance (idiom) / you can't judge a book by its cover / often in combination 人不可貌相, 海水不可斗量 | |
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| | white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book | |
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| | Xu Xiake's Travel Diaries, a book of travel records by 徐霞客 on geology, geography, plants etc | |
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| | special (or reserved) train (or bus etc) / limousine / private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app | |
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| | to review (a book) | |
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| | canonical text / treasury (i.e. book of treasured wisdom) | |
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| | to stop one's pen / to break off writing / final remarks (at the end of a book or article) | |
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| | copy (of a document) / book with model calligraphy for copying | |
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| | impression of a book / opinion expressed in a book review | |
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| | book or record / registry / roll / place of one's family or ancestral records / membership | |
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| | lit. always with a book in hand (idiom) / fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking | |
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| | page of a book | |
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| | admonition / exhortation / dictum / the biblical Book of Proverbs | |
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| | Batman, comic book superhero | |
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| | surname Yi / abbr. for 易經|易经, the Book of Changes | |
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| | address book / directory | |
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| | original (of a document) / reserved copy (of a library book) | |
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| | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
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| | Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius / book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism | |
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| | book cover | |
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