| | of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的｜跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs | HSK 1 |
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| | really; truly; indeed / real; true; genuine / (math.) proper | HSK 1 |
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| | else / other | HSK 1 |
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| | (there are) some (who are...) / some (exist) | HSK 1 |
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| | purpose; aim; goal; target; objective / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | if (coming after a conditional clause) | HSK 2 |
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| | have plenty of / there's no lack of | HSK 3 |
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| | identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." 以 + ... + 的身份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank | HSK 4 |
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| | really / indeed | HSK 4 |
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| | seems as if / rather like / Taiwan pr. [si4 de5] | HSK 4 |
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| | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun 的命) / CL: 次 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | destination (location) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | generally speaking / to sum up / in summary / in short | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom) / fig. to have a clear objective | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) nothing to pick on; really good / (coll.) nothing to discuss; settled matter; no problem | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to tell the truth / honestly / in fact | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Really! (interj. of annoyance or frustration) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士) | |
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| | really and truly | |
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| | (bound form) bull's-eye; target | |
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| | even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom) | |
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| | Goddam! / goddamn / wretched | |
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| | trivial (matters) / triviality / nonsense / rubbish | |
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| | the brightest jewel in the crown | |
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| | bogus / ersatz / fake / mock / phony | |
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| | (equivalent to 的 as possessive particle) | |
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| | man | |
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| | my big sister (Internet slang version of 我的姐) | |
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| | the Greater Antilles, Caribbean island group including Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Jamaica and Puerto Rico | |
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| | every family has its problems (idiom) | |
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| | (slang, originally northeast dialect) excellent; great | |
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| | weak and inept person / hopeless case | |
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| | ultimatum (loanword) | |
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| | my (Internet slang variant of 我的) | |
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| | (like) a cat on a hot tin roof / anxious / agitated | |
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| | lit. the child who cries gets the candy (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease | |
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| | Baltic Sea | |
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| | taxi (loanword) | |
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| | Montevideo, capital of Uruguay | |
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| | what for / why / how | |
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| | the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) / the final straw | |
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| | Tripoli, capital of Libya / Tripoli, city in north Lebanon | |
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| | lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom); the butt of public criticism / attacked on all sides | |
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| | Scandinavia | |
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| | possessive particle (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 的 | |
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| | Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia | |
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| | beast (derog.) | |
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| | Baltimore (place name, surname etc) | |
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| | darlings / fans / followers / short form of 親愛的們｜亲爱的们 | |
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| | yes, that's right / variant of 似的 | |
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| | all one's strength | |
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| | (idiom) to hit the mark with a comment; to say sth spot on | |
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| | lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen | |
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| | to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark | |
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| | (HK) (loanword) disco | |
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| | egoism masked by a veneer of urbanity (neologism c. 2012) (abbr. for 精緻的利己主義｜精致的利己主义) | |
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| | dacron (loanword) | |
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| | Cardiff | |
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| | Trieste, port city in Italy | |
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| | (coll.) food | |
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| | target / aim / objective / what one hopes to gain | |
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| | (neologism c. 2009) don't worry, it's all taken care of | |
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| | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family / (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | |
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| | really / after all / details / particulars | |
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| | How did it happen? / What's wrong? / What went wrong? / What's up? | |
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| | reliable funds | |
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| | female taxi driver | |
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| | (old) wife | |
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| | (polite response) you're welcome; just doing my duty; no problem | |
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| | ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser | |
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| | to be quite an ordeal; to be hard to bear | |
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| | bull's-eye / target / objective | |
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| | You're really quite something! / You're just amazing! | |
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| | (idiom) a good person, used to praise sb's moral integrity or courage | |
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| | white lie | |
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| | for the sake of / for the purpose of | |
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| | Actual practice is the sole criterion for judging truth (item from Deng Xiaoping theory, from 1978) | |
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| | creeped out; unnerved; uneasy | |
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| | Descendants of the Dragon (i.e. Han Chinese) | |
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| | the Last Supper (in the Christian Passion story) | |
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| | woman | |
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| | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people | |
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| | all good things must come to an end (idiom) | |
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| | (in the expression 看在 + ... + 的份上) for the sake of ...; considering ... | |
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| | lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom) / fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first | |
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| | Cádiz, Spain | |
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| | sometimes / at times | |
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| | lit. the barefooted people are not afraid of those who wear shoes (idiom) / fig. the poor, who have nothing to lose, do not fear those in power | |
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| | the great majority | |
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| | Zhang Tianyi (1906-1985), children's writer, author of prize-winning fairy tale Secret of the Magic Gourd 寶葫蘆的秘密｜宝葫芦的秘密 | |
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| | standard / norm / criterion | |
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