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  *里* | 里* | *里
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇 and neighborhood 鄰|邻 levels
HSK 1
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  *从* | 从* | *从
from; through; via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
HSK 1
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  *做* | 做* | *做
to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)
HSK 1
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  *手* | 手* | *手
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只
HSK 1
to arise; to come into being; to come about / to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
HSK 3
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  *分* | 分* | *分
to divide; to separate / to distribute; to allocate / to distinguish (good and bad) / (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局) / fraction / one tenth (of certain units) / unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm / minute (unit of time) / minute (angular measurement unit) / a point (in sports or games) / 0.01 yuan (unit of money)
HSK 1
English (language)
HSK 2
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  *家* | 家* | *家
home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *生* | 生* | *生
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽)
HSK 2
power; force; strength
HSK 3
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  *听* | 听* | *听
to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
HSK 1
difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
HSK 3
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  *使* | 使* | *使
to make / to cause / to enable / to use / to employ / to send / to instruct sb to do sth / envoy / messenger
HSK 3
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  *米* | 米* | *米
uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan
HSK 2
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  *长* | 长* | *长
long / (bound form) length / (bound form) strong point; forte / (bound form) to be good at / (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])
HSK 2
time / length of time / moment / period
HSK 1
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  *就* | 就* | *就
(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then / (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after / (same as 就是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly / only; as little as / as much as; as many as / to approach; to move towards / to undertake; to engage in / (often followed by 著|着) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to; concerning / (bound form) to reach; to attain (as in 一蹴而就) / (pattern: ... ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: ... ...) if not ... then must be ...
HSK 1
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  *刻* | 刻* | *刻
quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals
HSK 2
English (language)
HSK 2
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  *被* | 被* | *被
quilt / to cover (with) / (literary) to suffer (a misfortune) / used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游 to "go on a trip")
HSK 3
to reinforce; to strengthen; to enhance
HSK 3
engineering / an engineering project / project / undertaking / CL: 個|个, 項|项
HSK 4
passenger
HSK 5
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  *报* | 报* | *报
to report; to inform; to announce / to respond; to reply / to sign up for; to register for (abbr. for 報名|报名) / to reward; to recompense / to take revenge; to retaliate / newspaper / periodical; journal / bulletin / telegram
HSK 3
to sway / to waver / to rock / to rattle / to destabilize / to pose a challenge to
HSK 4
physical strength
HSK 4
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  *引* | 引* | *引
to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 , one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
HSK 4
to engage in (business etc); to run; to operate
HSK 3
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  *卷* | 卷* | *卷
to roll up / (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation) / (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive / a roll / classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)
HSK 4
strength
HSK 3
engineer / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 3
to ensure public security / to ensure safety (for workers engaged in production) / public security / security guard
HSK 3
track (for trains etc) / orbit (of a satellite) / (fig.) a person's established path in life / desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor) / (audio engineering) track / (quantum mechanics) orbital
HSK 6
to increase / to strengthen
HSK 5
to challenge; to take on a challenge; a challenge
HSK 4
to exert all one's strength
HSK 4
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  *力* | 力* | *力
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously
HSK 3
to start an engine / to boot up (a computer) / to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete / to begin shooting a film or TV show
HSK 2
strength / intensity / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
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  *段* | 段* | *段
paragraph / section / segment / stage (of a process) / classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
HSK 2
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  *员* | 员* | *员
(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity / (bound form) member / classifier for military generals
HSK 3
to go for / to engage in / to undertake / to deal with / to handle / to do
HSK 3
coach / bus / passenger train
HSK 6
to fight / to engage in combat / struggle / battle / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
to throw into / to put into / to throw oneself into / to participate in / to invest in / absorbed / engrossed
HSK 4
apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他誰也沒來|除了他谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語他也會法語|除了英语他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B")
HSK 3
to toughen / to temper / to engage in physical exercise / to work out / (fig.) to develop one's skills / to train oneself
HSK 4
passenger plane
HSK 7-9
to strengthen / to intensify
HSK 6
solely engrossed in one thing / just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest) / simply / by all means / please feel free / do not hesitate (to ask for sth)
HSK 6
(soccer slang) spectacular, world-class goal; wonder goal (originally Cantonese: is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bo1])
to engage in petty theft
physical strength / physical power
HSK 5
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  *乘* | 乘* | *乘
surname Cheng
online; connected to the Internet / (fig.) (coll.) (of a person) mentally focused; engaged; (of skills, performance etc) sharp; on point; functioning at a high level
HSK 7-9
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  *寸* | 寸* | *寸
a unit of length / inch / thumb
HSK 5
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
to lengthen and shorten / flexible / adjustable / retractable / extensible / telescoping (collapsible)
HSK 7-9
(literary) strength and direction of the wind
to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation) / to start a construction job
HSK 7-9
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  *作* | 作* | *作
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
HSK 6
Terengganu, state of Malaysia
to tolerate or condone wrongdoing; to allow (sb) to engage in bad behavior
HSK 7-9
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  *雕* | 雕* | *雕
to carve / to engrave / shrewd / bird of prey
HSK 7-9
(Tw) pengbing, a hollow bun lined with brown sugar (from Taiwanese 膨餅, Tai-lo pr. [phòng-piánn])
spirit weary, strength exhausted (idiom); spent / drained / washed out
HSK 7-9
appointment / engagement / date / CL: , 個|个 / to arrange to meet
HSK 4
length
HSK 5
engine (loanword) / CL: 臺|台
HSK 7-9
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  *劲* | 劲* | *劲
strength / energy / enthusiasm / spirit / mood / expression / interest / CL: / Taiwan pr. [jing4]
(dialect) sports shoes; sneakers (originally Cantonese: is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bo1])
main force / main strength of an army
HSK 7-9
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  *成* | 成* | *成
surname Cheng / short name for Chengdu 成都
to plot / to scheme / to bring about / to engineer / planning / producer / planner
HSK 6
to agree on sth (after discussion) / to conclude a bargain / to arrange / to promise / to stipulate / to make an appointment / stipulated (time, amount, quality etc) / an arrangement / a deal / appointment / undertaking / commitment / understanding / engagement / stipulation
HSK 6
reverse engineering
passenger flow / customer flow
HSK 7-9
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  *PK* | PK* | *PK
(slang) to take on / to challenge / to go head to head / showdown / comparison
science and engineering as academic subjects
difficult / hard / challenging
HSK 5
to ride as a passenger / to travel by (car, plane etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *务* | 务* | *务
affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means
(old) enclosed carriage for carrying passengers / (automotive) sedan
HSK 7-9
to carve / to engrave / carving
HSK 7-9
Dafeng, a district of Yancheng City 鹽城市|盐城市, Jiangsu
Baidu, Internet portal and search engine, www.baidu.com, listed as BIDU on NASDAQ since 1999
character; moral strength; integrity / (coll.) looks; appearance; bearing
HSK 7-9
general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot
HSK 6
Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire
first battle; initial engagement (of a war or military campaign)
challenger
dash / Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)
strength / vigor / efforts / (music) dynamics
HSK 7-9
with all one's strength / full strength / all-out (effort) / fully (support)
HSK 6
to limit the flow of passengers, customers or vehicles / to limit the spread of sensitive content / (electricity) current limiting / (computer networking) rate limiting
feng shui / geomancy
HSK 7-9
to go to war / to engage in war
Bayes (name) / Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), English mathematician and theologian
Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën (automobile company)
Aohan banner or Aokhan khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia

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