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  *最* | 最* | *最
(before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est / (after ) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最 "the greatest in the world")
HSK 1
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  *干* | 干* | *干
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
HSK 1
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  *干* | 干* | *干
(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 / (archaic) shield
HSK 1
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  *包* | 包* | *包
to cover / to wrap / to hold / to include / to take charge of / to contract (to or for) / package / wrapper / container / bag / to hold or embrace / bundle / packet / CL: 個|个, 隻|只
HSK 1
world
HSK 3
(of a student) to start school / (of a semester) to begin / (old) to found a school / the start of a new term
HSK 2
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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
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  *右* | 右* | *右
(bound form) right; right-hand side / (bound form) (politics) right of center / (bound form) (old) west / (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
HSK 1
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  *打* | 打* | *打
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话 "to make a phone call", 打針|打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后 "since then")
HSK 1
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  *大* | 大* | *大
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
HSK 1
child
HSK 1
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  *少* | 少* | *少
few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom
HSK 1
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  *手* | 手* | *手
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只
HSK 1
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  *举* | 举* | *举
to lift / to hold up / to cite / to enumerate / to act / to raise / to choose / to elect / act / move / deed
HSK 2
World Cup
HSK 3
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  *出* | 出* | *出
to go out; to come out / to arise; to occur / to produce; to yield / to go beyond; to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
HSK 1
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  *火* | 火* | *火
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
HSK 3
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  *地* | 地* | *地
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:
HSK 1
specialty / specialized field / main field of study (at university) / major / CL: 門|门, 個|个 / professional
HSK 3
child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child)
HSK 1
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  *先* | 先* | *先
beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
HSK 1
house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, , , , 間|间
HSK 1
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  *靠* | 靠* | *靠
to lean against or on / to stand by the side of / to come near to / to depend on / to trust / to fuck (vulgar) / traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
HSK 2
to hold a meeting / to attend a meeting
HSK 1
older sister / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *所* | 所* | *所
actually / place / classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc / that which / particle introducing a relative clause or passive / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *金* | 金* | *金
gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
HSK 3
from childhood; from a young age
HSK 2
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  *古* | 古* | *古
ancient / old / paleo-
HSK 3
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  *把* | 把* | *把
to hold; to grasp / to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate / handlebar / classifier: handful, bundle, bunch / classifier for things with handles / (used to put the object before the verb: + {noun} + {verb})
HSK 3
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  *楼* | 楼* | *楼
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
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  *刀* | 刀* | *刀
knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:) / (slang) (loanword) dollar / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs / (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces) / (Internet slang) to knife (sb) (often used hyperbolically, as in 想刀他 "I could kill him!")
HSK 3
children; sons and daughters
HSK 3
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
specialized; dedicated (to a particular field or purpose) / specially; specifically (for a particular purpose) / (of institutions, personnel etc) designated or assigned for a specific task; special
HSK 3
to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc)
HSK 2
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  *店* | 店* | *店
inn; old-style hotel (CL:) / (bound form) shop; store
HSK 2
airport; airfield / (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship / CL: , 處|处
HSK 1
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  *生* | 生* | *生
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽)
HSK 2
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  *拿* | 拿* | *拿
to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as : to mark the following noun as a direct object)
HSK 1
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  *两* | 两* | *两
two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty (old)
HSK 1
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  *哥* | 哥* | *哥
elder brother
HSK 1
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  *座* | 座* | *座
seat / base; stand / (bound form) constellation / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座) / classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
HSK 2
nature (the natural world)
HSK 2
shopping mall / shopping center / department store / emporium / CL: / the business world
HSK 1
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  *冷* | 冷* | *冷
cold
HSK 1
not equal to; not as good as; inferior to / it would be better to
HSK 2
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  *长* | 长* | *长
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance
HSK 2
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  *要* | 要* | *要
to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是) / (bound form) important
HSK 1
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  *门* | 门* | *门
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:) / 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
to grasp (also fig.) / to seize / to hold / assurance / certainty / sure (of the outcome)
HSK 3
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
HSK 1
to practice / field work / to intern / internship
HSK 2
to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child
HSK 3
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  *保* | 保* | *保
to defend; to protect; to keep / to guarantee; to ensure / (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system
HSK 3
to launch / to develop / to unfold / (of an exhibition etc) to open
HSK 3
well-developed; flourishing / to develop; to promote; to expand / (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper
HSK 3
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  *者* | 者* | *者
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后 or to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this
HSK 3
student / schoolchild
HSK 1
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  *被* | 被* | *被
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
serviceman / soldier / military personnel
HSK 5
ought to; should; must
HSK 2
the whole world / worldwide; global
HSK 3
soldier / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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  *户* | 户* | *户
a household / door / family
HSK 4
older brother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
to take charge of / to manage or direct / to preside over / to uphold / to stand for (justice etc) / to host (a TV or radio program etc) / (TV) anchor
HSK 3
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  *村* | 村* | *村
village / (dialect) to scold / rustic; boorish
HSK 3
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  *倍* | 倍* | *倍
(two, three etc) -fold / times (multiplier) / double / to increase or multiply
HSK 4
where? / wherever; anywhere; somewhere / (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
HSK 1
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  *错* | 错* | *错
mistake / wrong / bad / interlocking / complex / to grind / to polish / to alternate / to stagger / to miss / to let slip / to evade / to inlay with gold or silver
HSK 1
respect / aspect / field / side / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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  *第* | 第* | *第
(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just
HSK 1
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  *晒* | 晒* | *晒
(of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to
HSK 4
in one's childhood
HSK 2
the outside world / external
HSK 5
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  *修* | 修* | *修
to decorate / to embellish / to repair / to build / to write / to cultivate / to study / to take (a class)
HSK 3
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  *层* | 层* | *层
to pile on top of one another / layer; stratum / floor (of a building); story / (math.) sheaf / classifier for layers
HSK 2
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  *呢* | 呢* | *呢
(sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?") / (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds / (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech
HSK 1
the human world / the earth
HSK 5
father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older
HSK 4
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  *型* | 型* | *型
mold / type / style / model
HSK 4
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  *引* | 引* | *引
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 , one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
HSK 4
to conduct; to hold (an event)
HSK 3
household duties / housework
HSK 4
primary school student / schoolchild / CL: 個|个, / (fig.) beginner
HSK 1
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  *票* | 票* | *票
ticket / ballot / banknote / CL: 張|张 / person held for ransom / amateur performance of Chinese opera / classifier for groups, batches, business transactions
HSK 1
to hold a governmental office or post / to assume office of / to take charge of / to serve as
HSK 4
to transform / to reform / to remodel / to remold
HSK 3
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  *让* | 让* | *让
to yield / to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) / by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like )
HSK 2
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  *冰* | 冰* | *冰
ice / CL: 塊|块 / to chill sth / (of an object or substance) to feel cold / (of a person) cold / unfriendly / (slang) methamphetamine
HSK 4
family; household / CL: 戶|户
HSK 2
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  *科* | 科* | *科
branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to have / to own / to hold / to occupy / to possess / to account for (a high proportion etc)
HSK 5
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  *冻* | 冻* | *冻
to freeze / to feel very cold / aspic or jelly
HSK 5
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  *进* | 进* | *进
to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
HSK 1
big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
HSK 4
large and small / size / adults and children / consideration of seniority / at any rate
HSK 2
to unfold; to spread out; to open up / to launch; to carry out
HSK 3
to grab hold of; to capture
HSK 3

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