| | 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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| | ten / 10 | HSK 1 |
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| | 100 million | HSK 2 |
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| | (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his / (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人) | HSK 1 |
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| | two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤 (old) | HSK 1 |
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| | catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g | HSK 2 |
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| | clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30° | HSK 5 |
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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters | HSK 4 |
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| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個｜个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分) | HSK 1 |
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| | angle / corner / horn / horn-shaped / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | meat / flesh / pulp (of a fruit) / (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy / (of a person) flabby / irresolute / Kangxi radical 130 | HSK 1 |
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| | the emergency number for medical assistance and first aid in Mainland China | |
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| | not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中｜罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備｜刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei 魏 as villains | |
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| | twenty; 20 | |
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| | (neologism, 2017) (slang) a pair of women whose seemingly close friendship is actually shallow, insincere and subtly competitive; fake besties; frenemies | |
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| | to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012 | |
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| | COVID-19, the coronavirus disease identified in 2019 | |
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| | thirty / 30 | |
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| | son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- | |
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| | paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張｜张, 紮｜扎 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (embryology) to involute; involution / (neologism c. 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race; to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources) | |
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| | Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) | |
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| | the seventies; the 1970s | |
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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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| | picul (100 catties, 50 kg) / two buckets full / carrying pole and its load / classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (neologism c. 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society) | |
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| | the sixties / the 1960s | |
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| | 90s generation | |
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| | cyanoacrylate glue | |
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| | (neologism, c. 2015) (coll.) most prominent position (e.g. in a group photo of entertainers) (loanword from "carry" or "center" or "core") | |
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| | intellectual property (in China, esp. since 2015, often used as an entertainment industry term for a creative work used as the basis of a new product, such as a manga adapted as a tv series, or the image of a cartoon character appearing on merchandise) | |
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| | Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government plan to provide finance and engineering expertise to build infrastructure across Eurasia and northeast Africa, unveiled in 2013 | |
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| | the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC / Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432) / surname Xia | |
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| | Xi Jinping (1953–), PRC politician, General Secretary of the CCP from 2012, president of the PRC from 2013 | |
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| | peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016) | |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武｜孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书 | |
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| | seventy / 70 | |
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| | 20th century | |
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| | sorry to interrupt you, but ... / sorry to have bothered you / sorry, I have to go / (slang) (coined c. 2017) used facetiously to terminate a conversation (esp. online) when the other person is being insufferable | |
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| | the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science | |
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| | He Jinli, Chinese name adopted by Kamala Harris (1964-), US vice president 2021- | |
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| | National Supervision Commission of the PRC, anti-corruption agency established in 2018 | |
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| | silent; still; quiet / to mourn in silence; to observe silence / (neologism c. 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic | |
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| | Hu-Wen New Administration (formed in 2003), ostensibly reform-oriented leadership of Hu Jintao 胡錦濤｜胡锦涛 and Wen Jiabao 溫家寶｜温家宝 | |
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| | (of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism c. 2020) healthcare worker in a full-body protective suit (from the white robot Baymax in Disney's "Big Hero 6", called " 大白" in Chinese) | |
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| | the emergency number for law enforcement in Mainland China and Taiwan | |
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| | numeral 10 in the Suzhou numeral system 蘇州碼子｜苏州码子 | |
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| | starch; amylum (C6H10O5)n | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Zepp Health Corporation, Chinese company providing digital health management based on wearable devices, established in 2013 | |
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| | History of the Northern Dynasties, fifteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Li Yanshou 李延壽｜李延寿 in 659 during Tang Dynasty, 100 scrolls | |
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| | Year of the Cock (e.g. 2005) | |
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| | over 20 | |
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| | Made in China 2025, strategic plan to upgrade Chinese industry especially in high-tech areas, approved by China's State Council in 2015 | |
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| | Former Han dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 西漢｜西汉, Western Han dynasty | |
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| | Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games | |
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| | History of Qi of the Northern Dynasties, eleventh of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled by Li Baiyao 李百藥｜李百药 in 636 during Tang Dynasty, 50 scrolls | |
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| | 100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗 | |
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| | Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player | |
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| | (impure) mirabilite, Na2SO4x10H2O (used in TCM) | |
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| | Huangfu Bo (c. 800), Minister during early Tang | |
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| | twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067 | |
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| | (pharmacology) piracetam (C6H10N2O2), a nootropic | |
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| | eighty / 80 | |
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| | thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014 | |
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| | Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇｜杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 | |
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| | camphane C10H18 | |
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| | actinoids (rare earth series), namely: actinium Ac89 錒｜锕, thorium Th90 釷｜钍, protoactinium Pa91 鏷｜镤, uranium U92 鈾｜铀, neptunium Ne93 鎿｜镎, plutonium Pu94 鈈｜钚, americium Am95 鎇｜镅, curium Cm96 鋦｜锔, berkelium Bk97 錇｜锫, californium Cf98 鐦｜锎, einsteinium Es99 鎄｜锿, fermium Fm100 鐨｜镄, mendelevium Md101 鍆｜钔, nobelium No102 鍩｜锘, lawrencium Lr103 鐒｜铹 | |
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| | (neologism c. 2019) to exert control over (sb) by means of psychological manipulation (e.g. negging) / a person who does so (loanword from "pickup artist") | |
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| | Uber, app-based taxi company founded in 2009 | |
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| | little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older) | |
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| | the Three Represents, a set of three guiding principles for the CCP introduced by Jiang Zemin 江澤民｜江泽民 in 2000 and enshrined in the Constitution in 2004 | |
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| | (term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries) | |
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| | surname Zhi / Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農｜神农 Farmer God | |
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| | "double carbon", i.e. peak carbon 碳達峰｜碳达峰 and carbon neutrality 碳中和 / China's double carbon policy, announced in 2020, which aims to reach peak carbon use by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 | |
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| | the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) | |
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| | (neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it | |
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| | the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄｜扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters | |
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| | thoroughgoing / authentic / 100% / to the core | |
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| | (PRC) Double Reduction Policy, announced in 2021, aiming to ease pressure on K-12 students by reducing homework and banning for-profit after-school academic classes | |
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| | imperial sword (giving bearer plenipotentiary powers) / imperial Chinese version of 007 licensed to kill | |
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| | Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940) | |
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| | bird's nest / nickname for Beijing 2008 Olympic stadium | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, completed in 2010 / abbr. for 京滬高速鐵路｜京沪高速铁路 | |
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| | the Zhou dynasty from 1027 BC | |
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| | (neologism c. 2016) no tv shows to watch | |
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| | the age of 30 | |
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| | the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC | |
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| | Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972 | |
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| | forty / 40 | |
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| | Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年｜民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911) | |
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| | Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) / surname Ming / Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農｜神农 Farmer God | |
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| | COVID-19, the coronavirus disease identified in 2019 | |
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| | Baosteel, Chinese steel maker formed in a 1998 merger, then merged to form Baowu 寶武鋼鐵｜宝武钢铁 in 2016 | |
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| | Eight Banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911 | |
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