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  *省* | 省* | *省
to save; to economize; to be frugal / to omit; to delete; to leave out / province / provincial capital / a ministry (of the Japanese government)
HSK 2
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  *黑* | 黑* | *黑
black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)
HSK 2
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  *细* | 细* | *细
thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal
HSK 4
lawful / legitimate / legal
HSK 3
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  *法* | 法* | *法
law / method / way / to emulate / (Buddhism) dharma / (abbr. for 法家) the Legalists / (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉)
HSK 4
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  *乙* | 乙* | *乙
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
careful; attentive; cautious / to be careful; to look out / (dialect) thrifty; frugal
HSK 5
legal (proceedings) / according to law
HSK 5
to mention; to bring up / (lit. and fig.) to lift; to raise / to initiate (legal proceedings)
HSK 5
heroic / gallant / valiant
HSK 4
legal system and institutions
HSK 5
to close; to seal off / to close down (an illegal venue) / closed (i.e. isolated from outside input)
HSK 4
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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
pirated / illegal / see also 正版
HSK 6
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  *胆* | 胆* | *胆
gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
HSK 5
unwilling to concede / defiant / indignant / to find it galling
HSK 7-9
gray-market industry; industry operating in legal or ethical gray areas (abbr. for 灰色產業|灰色产业)
genuine / legal / see also 盜版|盗版
HSK 5
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
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
(historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official / teacher's teacher (in academic lineage)
illegal / to break the law
HSK 5
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
race-replica motorcycle; street-legal motorcycle styled after racing bikes
nickname of Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo
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  *造* | 造* | *造
to make / to build / to manufacture / to invent / to fabricate / to go to / party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement) / crop / classifier for crops
HSK 3
ugali (aka nshima)
lesser yang gallbladder meridian of the leg (one of the 12 principal meridians of TCM)
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)
to break the rules / an illegality / a foul
HSK 6
shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace
illegal
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  *案* | 案* | *案
(legal) case / incident / record / file / table
two trees that grow together as one / fig. conjugal union
extragalactic nebula
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
legal fees / costs (of a lawsuit)
Sagittarius spiral arm (of our galaxy)
barred spiral galaxy
lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom) / fig. going full steam ahead
funds; a sum of money (for a particular purpose) (CL:筆|笔) / item of a clause (in a legal document)
HSK 7-9
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
(loanword) curry
privately-run; private (school, hospital etc) / to set up illegally
HSK 7-9
illegal immigration / to stowaway (on a ship) / to steal across the international border / to run a blockade
frugal; economical
HSK 7-9
CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special / abbr. to 春晚
lawless / illegal / unlawful
rubber overshoes; galoshes / rubber shoes or boots (with rubber soles or made entirely of rubber)
another name for Han Fei 韓非|韩非, Legalist philosopher (c. 280-233 BC) / Han Feizi, book of Legalist Philosophy authored by Han Fei 韓非|韩非 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
(of a thief, smuggler etc) to be caught with stolen or illegal goods / to be caught red-handed
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  *腾* | 腾* | *腾
(bound form) to gallop; to prance / (bound form) to soar; to hover / to make room; to clear out; to vacate / (verb suffix indicating repeated action)
HSK 7-9
egalitarianism
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家|农家
a party (in a contract or legal case) / one side / area / region
force 8 wind / fresh gale
(lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践, in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / (fig.) to maintain one's resolve for revenge
(derog.) person who instigates lawsuits or otherwise exploits litigation for personal gain; legal shyster
pheasant / unregistered and operating illegally (business) / (slang) prostitute
to take (illegal) drugs
lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom); to drive out the old and make a clean sweep
Andromeda constellation (galaxy) M31
details of a legal case; facts and circumstances of a case (as established in investigation)
the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475–221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist
black-boned chicken / silky fowl / silkie / Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson
Portuguese (language)
unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions
gale / CL: 場|场
(old) legal practitioner; litigation agent
grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called 鮨 / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper)
legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country
outer skin / envelope / cover / (legal) seal
Political and Legal Affairs Commission (may refer to the national-level Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, responsible for overseeing law enforcement, judicial affairs and domestic security, or a corresponding body at a lower administrative level)
(law) rightholder; party entitled to a legal right (e.g. to property, copyright etc)
Galapagos Islands
art gallery; museum of art
the six spirits that rule the vital organs (heart 心, lungs 肺, liver 肝, kidneys 腎|肾, spleen 脾 and gall bladder 膽|胆)
smuggled illegal alien / stowaway
to be weary of war / (fig.) to lose one's desire to continue to fight (sports match, legal battle etc)
statutory; law-based; legal
underground bank / illegal private bank / loan shark
(table tennis) edge ball / (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable
galago; bush baby
to squander money / extravagant / prodigal / free and easy / agile
Andromeda galaxy M31
to change (currency) illegally / fraudulent exchange
easy money / windfall / ill-gotten gains / undeserved fortune / illegal profit
legal responsibility; liability
Andromeda galaxy M31
to be at odds with / centrifugal (force)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist
Sea of Galilee
to take funds (esp. illegally or corruptly obtained)
Bengal / Bangladesh
lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
to eradicate pornography and illegal publications
West Bengal

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