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HSK
to sign up / to enter one's name / to apply / to register / to enroll / to enlist
HSK 2
spirit / mind / consciousness / thought / mental / psychological / essence / gist / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *报* | 报* | *报
to report; to inform; to announce / to respond; to reply / to sign up for; to register for (abbr. for 報名|报名) / to reward; to recompense / to take revenge; to retaliate / newspaper / periodical; journal / bulletin / telegram
HSK 3
to pass through; to get through / to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation) / to pass (a test) / by means of; through; via
HSK 2
to register / to log in
HSK 4
legislation / statute
HSK 5
to register / to enroll
HSK 5
to register (one's name)
HSK 4
brains / mind / skull / (fig.) gist (of a matter) / leader / boss
HSK 3
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  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
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  *版* | 版* | *版
a register / block of printing / edition / version / page
HSK 5
to report for duty / to check in / to register
HSK 3
vehicle registration certificate
(neologism, 2017) (slang) a pair of women whose seemingly close friendship is actually shallow, insincere and subtly competitive; fake besties; frenemies
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *登* | 登* | *登
to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
HSK 4
Parliament (UK) / Congress (US) / Diet (Japan) / Legislative Yuan (Taiwan)
HSK 6
ordinary mail (not express or registered)
logistics
HSK 7-9
syllogism (deduction in logic)
(neologism) the three core personal values: worldview (世界觀|世界观), view of life (人生觀|人生观) and value system (價值觀|价值观)
early-bird (discount, ticket, registration etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *注* | 注* | *注
to annotate; to provide explanatory notes on a written text / an annotation; an explanatory note / (bound form) to put on record; to register
HSK 7-9
(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)
Hertz (name) / Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist and meteorologist, pioneer of electromagnetic radiation
(logistics) shipping label; waybill
(neologism, attested by 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society)
(neologism, c. 2015) (coll.) most prominent position (e.g. in a group photo of entertainers) (loanword from "carry" or "center" or "core")
gist / main idea / general tenor / one's judgment
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)
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
silent; still; quiet / to mourn in silence; to observe silence / (neologism, attested by 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic
(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)
ophthalmologist; eye doctor
military logistics
seat in a parliament or legislative assembly
meteorologist
to apply for residence / to register a birth
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  *PUA* | PUA* | *PUA
(neologism, attested by 2019) to exert control over (sb) by means of psychological manipulation (e.g. negging) / a person who does so (loanword from "pickup artist")
(language education) to read swiftly, aiming to get the gist / extensive reading
Deng Tuo (1912-1966), sociologist and journalist, died under persecution at the start of the Cultural Revolution / wrote under the pen name Ma Nancun 馬南邨|马南邨
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), French social anthropologist
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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  *凡* | 凡* | *凡
ordinary / commonplace / mundane / temporal / of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels) / every / all / whatever / altogether / gist / outline / note of Chinese musical scale
HSK 7-9
slow; unhurried; sluggish
HSK 7-9
slightly cold / cool / (neologism) (slang) to be done for / about to be obliterated / (of a place or a person) desolate
distribution (business) / logistics
HSK 7-9
(neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it
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  *标* | 标* | *标
mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units
HSK 7-9
(neologism, attested by 2025) oneself, treated as an old friend
PRC system of compulsory registration
people's congress, a legislative body within the PRC's system of government at any of various levels – national, provincial, municipal, county or township (abbr. for 人民代表大會|人民代表大会)
biologist
(neologism, attested by 2016) TV drama drought; nothing good to watch
lower chamber (of legislative body) / lower house / the House of Commons
real-name (registration etc) / non-anonymous
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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)
to aim at / to target / to point at / to be directed at / registration / alignment (mechanical engineering)
HSK 7-9
military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier
(neologism c. 2017) melodramatic person / drama queen
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.)
legislature
to paint one's face with stage makeup / (neologism, attested by 2014) to expose sb as wrong; to put egg on sb's face
main aspects / essentials / gist
HSK 7-9
(literary) to introduce the theme of a composition; to state the gist at the outset / (fig.) to begin tackling an issue; to find a way into a problem / (coll.) to experience sth for the first time (esp. sth unusual)
glamping (neologism c. 2019)
banner registration (in the Eight Banners system of the Qing dynasty)
to go out to sea / (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
a row of things facing oneself (esp. a row of products on a shelf facing customers in a store) / (neologism c. 2019) (coll.) ostentation; showiness; impressiveness
(neologism c. 2019) to empower / to enable / to energize
to register (at a hospital etc) / to send by registered mail
HSK 7-9
ancestral hometown / original domicile (and civil registration)
HSK 7-9
before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers / an army marches on its stomach
member of the Legislative Yuan (Tw)
parliament / legislative assembly
HSK 7-9
(neologism) transitional object; comfort object
pheasant / unregistered and operating illegally (business) / (slang) prostitute
Charles Fourier (French sociologist and socialist, 1772-1837)
little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older
to drag along / to haul / (fig.) to procrastinate / shilly-shallying / sluggish / (computing) drag and drop / (loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams
(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
(business) license / vehicle license / car registration / license plate
HSK 7-9
(neologism c. 2018) to be thrilled to receive; to excitedly take delivery of
domain name registration
registration fee
(coll.) (neologism, attested by 2006) to extract money unscrupulously (e.g. through IPOs, fandom, or game mechanics) while offering little genuine value; to grift; to fleece
druggist / pharmacist
bicameralism / bicameral legislative system
(neologism c. 2008) (slang) (coined as a pun on 幸福) satisfied with one's sex life
to lie stretched out / (neologism, attested by 2021) to opt out of the rat race
psychologist
draft (legislation, proposal etc)
HSK 7-9
speech delivered by a head of state to the legislature (e.g. (USA) State of the Union Address, (Russia) Address to the Federal Assembly etc)
(neologism c. 2018) worthy of being used as a textbook example / exemplary / classic / quintessential
General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP, which handles administrative, logistical and technical affairs for the Central Committee
Ji Xianlin (1911-2009), Chinese linguist and Indologist
principal county magistrate in imperial China
(neologism) strange behavior characteristic of a teenager going through puberty (loanword from Japanese "chūnibyō")
central air conditioning / (fig.) (neologism) ladies' man (contrasted with 暖男, a guy who is attentive to his partner rather than to all and sundry)
(neologism c. 2005) freelancer
slash; forward slash (punctuation mark) / (neologism, attested by 2016) (coll.) (attributive) pursuing multiple career paths concurrently; having a portfolio career; (of a career, identity etc) multi-path; multi-hyphenate; slashie

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