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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
because; owing to; on account of
HSK 2
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  *成* | 成* | *成
to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth
HSK 2
to become; to turn into
HSK 2
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  *变* | 变* | *变
to change / to become different / to transform / to vary / rebellion
HSK 2
to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家)
HSK 1
to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
HSK 4
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  *由* | 由* | *由
to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
HSK 3
traffic congestion; traffic jam / to be stuck in traffic; (of traffic) to become congested
HSK 4
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  *准* | 准* | *准
accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-
HSK 3
to change into / to turn into / to become
HSK 2
due to / as a result of / thanks to / owing to / since / because
HSK 3
to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect / a discovery
HSK 2
matching / fitting in with / compatible with / to correspond / to fit / to conform to / rapport / to coordinate with / to act in concert with / to cooperate / to become man and wife / to combine parts of machine
HSK 3
to become invalid / to cancel / to delete / to nullify
HSK 6
to go bankrupt / to become impoverished / bankruptcy
HSK 4
to know; to become aware of / also pr. [zhi1dao5]
HSK 1
to barbecue meat; to roast meat / barbecued meat; roast meat
HSK 5
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  *点* | 点* | *点
to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts
HSK 1
well-known for sth / to become well known / to make one's mark / to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
HSK 6
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  *以* | 以* | *以
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)
HSK 7-9
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  *因* | 因* | *因
cause / reason / because
HSK 6
bright / shining / glittering / to become clear
HSK 5
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  *烧* | 烧* | *烧
to burn; to set on fire / to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc) / to braise / to cook; to prepare food / to run a fever / fever / (coll.) to become full of oneself; to get carried away
HSK 4
to become a member / to join / to mix into / to participate in / to add in
HSK 4
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  *入* | 入* | *入
to enter; to go into / to join; to become a member of / (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时) / abbr. for 入聲|入声 / (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 "iri")
HSK 6
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  *为* | 为* | *为
because of / for / to
HSK 2
to become deformed; to change shape; to morph
HSK 6
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  *肥* | 肥* | *肥
fat / fertile / loose-fitting or large / to fertilize / to become rich by illegal means / fertilizer / manure
HSK 4
to wave / to beckon
HSK 5
to become rigid
HSK 7-9
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  *为* | 为* | *为
as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)
HSK 3
to become inflamed / inflammation
HSK 6
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  *招* | 招* | *招
to recruit / to provoke / to beckon / to incur / to infect / contagious / a move (chess) / a maneuver / device / trick / to confess
HSK 6
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  *届* | 届* | *届
to arrive at (place or time) / period / to become due / classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
HSK 5
"The Wind Blows", a game in which one player calls out a category, all players who match it must change seats, and the person left without a seat becomes "it" (鬼)
to do an encore / (gaming) (of an item or character) to become available for purchase again
(idiom) to become famous in one stroke; to shoot to fame (originally referred to passing the imperial examination)
(lit.) break one's arm three times to become a good doctor (idiom) / (fig.) experience is a good teacher
(derog.) to become powerful or influential
to become sick of a food after eating it too much
to reupload digital content (because it expired, was taken down etc)
(lit.) break one's arm three times (to become a good doctor); (fig.) extensive experience (esp. gained through repeated hardship)
(embryology) to involute; involution / (neologism, attested by 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race; to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources)
to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc)
HSK 7-9
(of a role or status) newly appointed; newly become; newly minted
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  *醒* | 醒* | *醒
to wake up / to be awake / to become aware / to sober up / to come to
HSK 4
one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call
to change into / to turn into / to become
to become hot / temperature rise / (fig.) to intensify / to hot up / to escalate / to get a boost
HSK 7-9
to lose one's eyesight / to become blind / blindness
HSK 7-9
to become aware / to detect / to realize / to perceive
HSK 5
to worry / to fret / to be anxious / to become sad
HSK 7-9
char siu / barbecued pork
(literary) to become an official
(of facts or truth) to become fully revealed; to come to light / (old) wine cup / (coll.) whiting (used in whitewash) / (coll.) (neologism, attested by 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)
to intensify; to become acute; to come to a head
to become extinct; to die out / to lose (sth abstract) completely / to exterminate
HSK 7-9
(of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
HSK 7-9
to achieve the Dao / to become an immortal
to sense / to perceive / to become aware of / to detect
HSK 7-9
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect
HSK 7-9
Quebec city, capital of Quebec province of Canada
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  *霉* | 霉* | *霉
mold / mildew / to become moldy
Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
to get into a habit / to become addicted
HSK 7-9
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  *映* | 映* | *映
(bound form) to become visible (esp. on a surface or in perception)
HSK 7-9
(of food, books etc) to become infested with bugs
to become popular overnight
lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face / to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
(idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable
to demagnetize; to become demagnetized
to feel / to sense / to detect / to perceive / to become aware
in order to / because of / for the sake of
to change into / to turn into / to become
to become visible; to reveal
not to become attached to material things, not to pity oneself
(of people or relationships) close; intimate / to draw close to; to engage with; to become familiar with (nature, places, ideas, art etc)
HSK 7-9
to water down / to play down / to trivialize / to weaken / to become dull with time / to desalinate / desalination
HSK 7-9
to awaken / to come to realize / awakened to the truth / the truth dawns upon one / scales fall from the eyes / to become aware
HSK 7-9
because of / on the basis of / in view of / on account of
HSK 7-9
to become moldy
to become more youthful
barbecue / to roast
HSK 7-9
(statistics) normalized / to normalize; to make routine or regular / to become the norm / routine; regular (as an established practice)
to harden / (medicine) sclerosis / (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
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  *芸* | 芸* | *芸
common rue (Ruta graveolens) / (used in old compounds relating to books because in former times rue was used to protect books from insect damage)
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
to cook on a skewer / barbecued food on a skewer / shish kebab / (fig.) to perform or play songs in sequence / sequence of songs / medley
to take an official post / to become a government employee
(idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies
to become warm
to bury the hatchet / to become reconciled
to become agitated / to feel nervous
the result (becomes apparent) / now one understands
(coll.) skewers; barbecued food on sticks; (in Sichuan) Sichuan-style hotpot skewers (abbr. for 串串香) / (coll.) non-pedigree pet (esp. dog or cat); mutt; mixed-breed cat
to become intoxicated
to rot / to decay / to become corrupt
HSK 7-9
to settle (a dispute out of court) / to reconcile / settlement / conciliation / to become reconciled
HSK 7-9
not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers

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