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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *你* | 你* | *你
you (informal, as opposed to courteous )
HSK 1
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  *用* | 用* | *用
to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using / to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions) / usefulness; utility / (bound form) expense; outlay / (courteous) to eat; to drink / (literary) hence; therefore
HSK 1
north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River
HSK 2
because / owing to / on account of
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *国* | 国* | *国
country; nation; state / (bound form) national
HSK 1
to go abroad; to leave the country
HSK 2
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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)
HSK 3
to pass / to go through / process / course / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *对* | 对* | *对
right; correct / towards; at; for / concerning; regarding / to treat (sb a certain way) / to face / (bound form) opposite; facing; matching / to match together; to adjust / to fit; to suit / to answer; to reply / to add; to pour in (a fluid) / to check; to compare / classifier: couple; pair
HSK 1
accountant / accountancy / accounting
HSK 4
whole nation / nationwide / countrywide / national
HSK 2
parts of the country other than where one is
HSK 2
foreign country
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *自* | 自* | *自
(bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course
HSK 4
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  *指* | 指* | *指
finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *起* | 起* | *起
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
HSK 1
president (of a country) / CL: 個|个, , , 屆|届
HSK 4
domestic / internal (to a country) / civil
HSK 3
to write down / to record / written account
HSK 4
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end
HSK 5
in all parts of (a country) / various regions
HSK 3
country; nation; state
HSK 1
where? / wherever; anywhere; somewhere / (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
HSK 1
to record / record (written account) / note-taker / record (in sports etc) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
brave; courageous
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
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  *乡* | 乡* | *乡
country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
HSK 5
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
subject / branch of learning / course / academic discipline
HSK 5
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  *您* | 您* | *您
you (courteous, as opposed to informal )
HSK 1
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  *床* | 床* | *床
bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc
HSK 1
to adjust / to regulate / to harmonize / to reconcile (accountancy etc)
HSK 5
color / countenance / appearance / facial expression / pigment / dyestuff
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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  *字* | 字* | *字
letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
HSK 1
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  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
HSK 2
course; academic program / CL: , 節|节, 門|门
HSK 3
to raise one's head; to look up / (fig.) to begin to emerge; to show signs of growth / (commerce) account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc
HSK 5
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  *追* | 追* | *追
to chase / to pursue / to look into / to investigate / to reminisce / to recall / to court (one's beloved) / to binge-watch (a TV drama) / retroactively / posthumously
HSK 3
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  *县* | 县* | *县
county
HSK 4
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  *奖* | 奖* | *奖
prize; award; bonus; reward / (bound form) to encourage; to commend; to praise / to award; to give as a reward
HSK 4
stadium / sports ground / court / pitch / field / golf course / CL: 個|个, 處|处
HSK 2
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  *丁* | 丁* | *丁
male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl
HSK 7-9
don't tell me ... / could it be that...?
HSK 3
doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
HSK 5
statistics / to count / to add up
HSK 4
the West / the Occident / Western countries
HSK 2
courtesy; politeness; manners / courteous; polite
HSK 5
course credit
HSK 4
to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action) / to take
HSK 3
original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
HSK 3
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  *数* | 数* | *数
to count / to count as; to regard as / to enumerate; to list
HSK 2
to love one's country / patriotic
HSK 4
to correspond (to); to be equivalent to; to be a counterpart to
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *礼* | 礼* | *礼
gift / rite / ceremony / CL: / propriety / etiquette / courtesy
HSK 5
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  *练* | 练* | *练
to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk
HSK 2
courtyard / garden / yard / patio / CL: 個|个 / (old) servant
HSK 2
communication / social intercourse
HSK 4
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  *朝* | 朝* | *朝
imperial or royal court / government / dynasty / reign of a sovereign or emperor / court or assembly held by a sovereign or emperor / to make a pilgrimage to / facing / towards
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *台* | 台* | *台
desk; table; counter
HSK 3
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
polite / courteous / formal / modest
HSK 5
journey; travel route; itinerary / distance of travel / course (of history) / stroke (of a piston) / (Tw) (computing) process
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *期* | 期* | *期
a period of time / phase / stage / classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study / time / term / period / to hope / Taiwan pr. [qi2]
HSK 3
city and countryside
HSK 6
judge (in court)
HSK 4
a bed (on a train) / a couchette
HSK 6
(of celestial bodies etc) to move along one's course / (fig.) to function; to be in operation / (of a train service etc) to operate; to run / (of a computer) to run
HSK 5
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  *清* | 清* | *清
(of water etc) clear; clean / quiet; still / pure; uncorrupted / clear; distinct / to clear; to settle (accounts)
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *院* | 院* | *院
courtyard / institution / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to appreciate (financially) / to increase in value / value-added (accountancy)
HSK 6
(coll.) can't do anything about it / (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ... / (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful)
HSK 4
courage
HSK 4
only natural / as it should be / certainly / of course / without doubt
HSK 3
privilege / favorable (terms) / preferential (treatment) / discount (price)
HSK 5
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom) / fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
HSK 7-9
to cough / CL: 陣|阵
HSK 7-9
tangible benefit / material advantages / cheap / economical / advantageous (deal) / substantial (discount)
HSK 5
discount after reaching a minimum spend
court of law / court
HSK 4
ten million / countless / many / one must by all means
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *折* | 折* | *折
to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book
HSK 4
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei as villains
as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course / inevitable and right
HSK 7-9
(historical) affairs of state at the imperial court
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *川* | 川* | *川
(bound form) river / creek / plain / an area of level country
to count steps taken while walking or running
rustic / village / countryside
HSK 5
to encourage
HSK 5
human sympathy / humanitarianism / humane / the "human way", one of the stages in the cycle of reincarnation (Buddhism) / sexual intercourse
HSK 7-9
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
course of events / process / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *颜* | 颜* | *颜
color / face / countenance
rhyming couplet / pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
flag (of a country) / CL:
HSK 6
to pad an order; to add extra items to an order so as to reach the minimum spend required to use a coupon, get a discount or qualify for free shipping
(of competition or fighting) intense / fierce / (of pain) acute / (of an expression of opinion) impassioned / vehement / (of a course of action) drastic / extreme
HSK 4
host country; host state
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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

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