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  *四* | 四* | *四
four / 4
HSK 1
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  *熟* | 熟* | *熟
ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2]
HSK 2
(of a student) to start school / (of a semester) to begin / (old) to found a school / the start of a new term
HSK 2
base; foundation; basis / basic; fundamental
HSK 3
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  *建* | 建* | *建
to establish / to found / to set up / to build / to construct
HSK 3
to establish / to set up / to found
HSK 3
undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
profound / deep / deep-going
HSK 3
according to / based on / basis / foundation / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
deep; profound
HSK 4
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  *厚* | 厚* | *厚
thick / deep or profound / kind / generous / rich or strong in flavor / to favor / to stress
HSK 4
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  *沉* | 沉* | *沉
to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy
HSK 4
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  *季* | 季* | *季
season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields
HSK 4
fountain pen / CL:
HSK 5
to establish; to set up; to found
HSK 5
according to / basis / foundation
HSK 5
to found; to establish
HSK 6
to initiate; to start; to found
HSK 6
to establish; to found
HSK 6
to break the rules / an illegality / a foul
HSK 6
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  *悬* | 悬* | *悬
to hang or suspend / to worry / public announcement / unresolved / baseless / without foundation
HSK 6
deep / profound
HSK 6
four seasons, namely: spring , summer , autumn and winter
HSK 7-9
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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
to make a contribution / to establish / to found / contribution
HSK 7-9
to put sth on the bottom / to eat sth to tide oneself over until mealtime / to lay the foundation / to come last in the rankings
HSK 7-9
to cover the whole (area) / to be found throughout
HSK 7-9
source / fountainhead
HSK 7-9
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
far-reaching / profound and long-lasting
HSK 7-9
foundation
HSK 7-9
fountain
HSK 7-9
profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism) / mysterious principles
HSK 7-9
four types of human emotions, namely: happiness 歡喜|欢喜, anger 憤怒|愤怒, sorrow 悲哀 and joy 快樂|快乐
HSK 7-9
can be found everywhere
HSK 7-9
profound / abstruse / recondite / profoundly
HSK 7-9
lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold
HSK 7-9
base / foundation / bottom
HSK 7-9
dense / thick / strong / rich (colors) / heavy (aroma) / deep (friendship) / profound (effect)
HSK 7-9
creator; founder; initiator
HSK 7-9
fountainhead / well-spring / water source / fig. origin
HSK 7-9
proposer / initiator / founding member
HSK 7-9
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  *启* | 启* | *启
Qi son of Yu the Great , reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书 in Confucianism
division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands
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  *明* | 明* | *明
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) / surname Ming / Ming (c. 2000 BC), fourth of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God
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  *基* | 基* | *基
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周, and is also known as the "God of Dreams"
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
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  *魏* | 魏* | *魏
surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history
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  *燕* | 燕* | *燕
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) / surname Yan
to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
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  *鼎* | 鼎* | *鼎
ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
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  *乘* | 乘* | *乘
(archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books
spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles)
pre-Qin, Chinese history up to the foundation of the Qin imperial dynasty in 221 BC
fourteen; 14
Ali (name) / Ali (c. 600-661), the fourth caliph of Islam / Ngari prefecture in Tibet
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放, 大辯論|大辩论, 大字報|大字报 (PRC)
GOME, electronics chain founded in Beijing in 1987
Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
Vanke, large Chinese real estate company, founded in 1984
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  *子* | 子* | *子
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
to initiate; to found
foundation / base / family estate
grade 4 / fourth class / category D
grief / remorse / deep in sorrow / bitter (anguish) / profound (condolences)
baseless (lie) / without foundation
New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
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  *污* | 污* | *污
dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth
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  *铸* | 铸* | *铸
to cast or found metals
the four corners (of a rectangle) / the eaves that the four corners of a building
April / fourth month (of the lunar year)
Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire
Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼 founder of Buddhism (also written 嵐毘尼|岚毗尼, 臘伐尼|腊伐尼, 林微尼)
base / pedestal / foundation
four-way / four-sided / in all directions / everywhere
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  *阮* | 阮* | *阮
ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
fourth of May, cf 五四運動|五四运动, national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010
the four arts (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting) / the accomplishments of a well-educated person
A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels
founder or leader of a religion or sect / (fig.) revered figure
Azure Dragon, one of the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, also known as the Azure Dragon of the East 東方青龍|东方青龙 or 東方蒼龍|东方苍龙 / (slang) man without pubic hair
foundations (of a building) / base
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  *盉* | 盉* | *盉
vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine
Suzhou embroidery, one of the four major traditional styles of Chinese embroidery (the other three being 湘繡|湘绣, 粵繡|粤绣 and 蜀繡|蜀绣)
by fair means or foul / by hook or by crook / unscrupulously
lecithin (phospholipid found in egg yolk)
four sides
foundation groove / trench for building foundation
foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation
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  *鳈* | 鳈* | *鳈
fish of genus Sarcocheilichthys (a genus of cyprinid fishes found in eastern Asia)
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  *铢* | 铢* | *铢
twenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
to lay (a foundation) / to conquer (a city etc) / to shoot down (a bird etc)
kind of work in production (e.g. benchwork, foundry work etc)
Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子
profound

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