| | 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 |
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| | to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end | HSK 5 |
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| | lit. isn't that a joy? (quote from Confucius) / fig. (jocular) extremely; awfully | HSK 7-9 |
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| | father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly) | |
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| | Yang Guo, protagonist of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" 神鵰俠侶｜神雕侠侣 / (used jocularly as a verb "to have tested positive", since 楊｜杨 and 陽｜阳 are homonyms) | |
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| | (in former times) to escort the emperor (or other important personage) / (nowadays) to escort sb (usually jocular) | |
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| | dramatic form consisting of historical narration / history as jocular narrative / to stretch history for a joking story / amusing story with strained interpretations of history / to make an unreasonable comparison in jest | |
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| | celestial soldier / (old) imperial troops / (Tw, jocular) clumsy army recruit / (more generally) bungler / screw-up | |
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| | to deride; to mock / (jocular) to heckle good-naturedly; to razz | |
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| | to jokingly call / jocular appellation | |
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| | talkative / garrulous / loquacious / flippant / jocular | |
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| | debtor (jocular term, homonymous with 富翁) | |
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| | (Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone) | |
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| | humorous / jocular / zany | |
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| | devil (used jocularly or contemptuously) / the departed | |
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| | to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc) / (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb) | |
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| | Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife) | |
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| | life buoy; life belt / (jocular) flab; spare tire | |
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| | washboard / (jocular) flat chest | |
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| | (slang) (used at the end of a sentence to mimic Korean speech) (loanword from Korean verb ending "seumnida") / (jocular) a Korean | |
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| | (slang, jocular, neologism c. 2006, used esp. in relation to public figures) the things you and your friends get up to (misbehavior, scandals etc) leave me shaking my head | |
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| | (jocular) to need to answer the call of nature | |
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| | (jocular) to sleep on the couch; to sleep in the living room | |
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| | (jocular) a day of frenetic online spending, such as Singles' Day | |
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| | being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad) | |
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| | lit. to sing "The Empty City Stratagem" (idiom) / fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness / (jocular) (of a place etc) to be empty; (of one's stomach) to be rumbling | |
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| | (jocular) to be under great pressure (a pun on 亞歷山大｜亚历山大) | |
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| | sandwich cookie / (jocular) sb who is caught between two opposing parties; sb who is between the hammer and the anvil | |
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| | (jocular) anorexic girl; a bag of bones | |
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| | (jocular) Valentine's Day, referring to the rising number of extramarrital affairs being discovered on that day | |
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| | see you tomorrow / (coll., jocular) food that passes through the digestive system more or less intact (esp. enoki mushrooms) | |
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| | (jocular) clever and quick-witted person | |
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| | (EA) Origin (service) (jocular) | |
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| | housewife (jocular) / female housekeeper of a higher rank (old) / busybody | |
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| | (jocular) wedding invitation (lit. "red bomb", because wedding invitations use red paper, and invitees are expected to give a substantial sum of money as a wedding gift) | |
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| | (jocular) shame on you! | |
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| | weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently) | |
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| | (jocular) public building that has been lying idle (and is thus ideal for housing mosquitos) (Tw) | |
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| | mothball / (jocular term) bullet | |
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| | lit. when someone tells you you're fat, you pant (as if you were actually fat) (idiom) / fig. Hey! I pay you a compliment, and you start bragging! (typically jocular and teasing) / flattery, like perfume, should be smelled, not swallowed | |
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| | cat owner (neologism c. 2013, jocular) | |
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| | (Internet slang) (wryly jocular) poverty limits my power of imagination / (fig.) flabbergasted by the antics of the wealthy / the rich live in another world / (abbr. for 貧窮限制了我的想象力｜贫穷限制了我的想象力) | |
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