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  *干* | 干* | *干
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed
HSK 1
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  *门* | 门* | *门
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇) / valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure / way to do sth; knack; method; approach / family; household; lineage / (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic) / (bound form) class; category; division; phylum / classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc / (suffix) -gate (scandal)
HSK 1
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
subject / branch of learning / course / academic discipline
HSK 5
learning / science / academic / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
academic year
HSK 4
course; academic program / CL: 堂, 節|节, 門|门
HSK 3
school building; academic building
HSK 1
doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
HSK 5
academic degree / place in school
HSK 5
student / member of an institution of learning / officer cadet
HSK 6
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  *调* | 调* | *调
to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody
HSK 3
the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
HSK 4
general academic senior high school (as opposed to vocational high schools)
Chinese Academy of Science
academic circles; academia
general academic senior high school (as opposed to vocational high schools) (abbr. for 普通高中)
first author (of an academic paper) (abbr. for 第一作者)
Daoist priest (esp. in folk religion) / teacher's teacher (in academic or apprenticeship lineage)
academic master's degree (abbr. for 學術學位碩士|学术学位硕士)
(historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official / teacher's teacher (in academic lineage)
educational background / academic qualifications
HSK 7-9
tutor / teacher / academic advisor
HSK 7-9
cadre / official / officer / manager
HSK 7-9
science and engineering as academic subjects
in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole / overall situation; the big picture / cadaver for dissection in training medical students
HSK 7-9
shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace
West Point; United States Military Academy
mask / fig. false façade / deceptive front
dual degree (academic)
vocational higher education institution (abbr. for 高等職業技術學校|高等职业技术学校) / senior academic or professional title (abbr. for 高級職稱|高级职称) / high-ranking employee (abbr. for 高級職員|高级职员) / (Tw) vocational high school
course of lectures; lecture series / chair (academic position)
HSK 4
facing brick; facade tile used to cover exterior walls
warp brocade / woven fabric with single colored woof but many-colored warp
Acadia University (Canada)
rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat
HSK 6
first author (of an academic paper)
Academia Sinica (abbr. for 中央研究院)
Cadillac
science and engineering as academic subjects
(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
(slang) straight-A student; academic prodigy
avocado (Persea americana) / shea nut (Vitellaria paradoxa)
corresponding author (of an academic paper)
academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
to delegate / to decentralize / to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside
abbr. for 中國社會科學院|中国社会科学院, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
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  *梗* | 梗* | *梗
branch / stem / stalk / CL: 根 / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏, initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc)
engineering as an academic subject
HSK 7-9
academic subject / field of study
HSK 7-9
military school / military academy
false appearance / facade
academic world / academic circles / academia
member of a national academy
HSK 7-9
latter half (of a decade, century etc)
Shanghai Theatre Academy
cadres and masses / party officials and ordinary people
style of study / academic atmosphere / school discipline / school traditions
decadent / dispirited / depressed / dejected
HSK 7-9
academic circles; academia
Chinese Academy of Engineering
to cascade down / to flow in torrents / (fig.) outpouring (of emotions)
background (academic and work) / curriculum vitae / résumé
(of an academic course) required / compulsory
HSK 6
academy of sciences / CL: 個|个
(of a cadre etc) to work for a period of time with a grassroots unit to gain firsthand experience / (dialect) taking a crap
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  *螗* | 螗* | *螗
variety of small cicada with a green back and a clear song (in ancient books)
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), organization within the CCP which investigates corruption and other wrongdoing among Party cadres / abbr. for 中共中央紀律檢查委員會|中共中央纪律检查委员会
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  *鉲* | 鉲* | *鉲
(chemistry) cadmium (old) / (Tw) californium
underground shopping arcade; underground mall
(polite) birthday making the beginning of new decade of life for an older person, especially over 50 years old (e.g. 60th or 70th birthday)
What decade are you living in? / That's so out-of-date!
academic world / academic circles / academia
to hold a concurrent post / part-time; (in academia) adjunct
HSK 7-9
Academia Sinica, research institution headquartered in Taipei
(film industry) Oscar (Academy Award) / CL: 屆|届 / (name) Oscar
to rise through the ranks (as a party cadre)
academic level
in the years of / during those years / period (of dynasty or decade)
(lit.) to add flowers to brocade (idiom) / (fig.) to make sth good even better; to add an extra (often nonessential) benefit or embellishment
brocade
an Academy Award; an Oscar
(loanword from Japanese "tennen boke") space cadet / muddleheaded
Central Party School, China's highest institution specifically for training Party cadres, founded in 1933
academism (art)
impact factor (of an academic journal)
Whampoa Military Academy
police / police cadres
Beijing Film Academy
to be successful in one's studies / academic success
Penghu county (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
to wander about / to roam / to move back and forth between (government and academia, two or more countries etc) / to flow through (a circuit, a network, the body) / to skirt (the border of legality) / (of a singer's voice) to move within its range / (of a stock price) to fluctuate within (a range)
token (used instead of money for slot machines, in game arcades etc)
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977
to puncture / to pierce / (fig.) to destroy (the facade concealing an unpleasant reality)
extravagant and dissipated / decadent
student graduating in the current academic year; current-year graduate; fresh graduate
Pescadores Islands, Taiwan
roadblock / barricade
cicada (onom.)

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