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  *叫* | 叫* | *叫
to shout / to call / to order / to ask / to be called / by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
HSK 1
same / ordinary / so-so / common / general / generally / in general
HSK 2
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  *性* | 性* | *性
nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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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
to arise; to come into being; to come about / to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
HSK 3
the day after tomorrow / life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天) / acquired (not innate or congenital) / a posteriori
HSK 1
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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
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
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  *帅* | 帅* | *帅
(bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
HSK 4
strict; stringent; tight; rigorous
HSK 4
common / ordinary / general / average
HSK 2
sex; gender
HSK 3
general assembly / general meeting / convention / CL: 個|个, 屆|届
HSK 4
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  *共* | 共* | *共
common / general / to share / together / total / altogether / abbr. for 共產黨|共产党, Communist party
HSK 4
roughly / probably / rough / approximate / about / general idea
HSK 3
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
great amount / large quantity / bulk / numerous / generous / magnanimous
HSK 2
intelligent / able / smart (phone, system, bomb etc)
HSK 4
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  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
to act on behalf of sb in a responsible position / to act as an agent or proxy / surrogate / (computing) proxy
HSK 5
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  *流* | 流* | *流
to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade
HSK 2
to act as intermediary / to link / intermediate / inter- / agency / agent
HSK 4
father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older
HSK 4
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression
HSK 2
person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance) / character (in a play, novel etc) / (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
HSK 5
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  *总* | 总* | *总
(bound form) general; overall / to sum up / in every case; always; invariably / anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理 or 總編|总编 etc
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
generally speaking
HSK 4
internal medicine; general medicine
HSK 4
an era; an age; a generation
HSK 6
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  *代* | 代* | *代
to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
HSK 3
talent / gift / genius / talented / gifted
HSK 5
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  *琴* | 琴* | *琴
guqin 古琴 (a type of zither) / musical instrument in general
HSK 5
really; truly; indeed / real; true; genuine / (math.) proper
HSK 1
intelligence / intellect
HSK 4
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  *急* | 急* | *急
urgent / pressing / rapid / hurried / worried / to make (sb) anxious
HSK 2
mechanism / structure / organization / agency / institution / CL:
HSK 4
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  *纯* | 纯* | *纯
pure / simple / unmixed / genuine
HSK 4
to worry; to feel anxious / to feel a sense of urgency; to be in a hurry / Taiwan pr. [zhao1ji2]
HSK 4
main part / bulk / body / subject / agent
HSK 5
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  *紧* | 紧* | *紧
tight / strict / close at hand / near / urgent / tense / hard up / short of money / to tighten
HSK 3
kind / genus / type / category / variety / species / sort / class
HSK 4
notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions
HSK 3
intelligent; clever; bright / acute (of sight and hearing)
HSK 5
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  *厚* | 厚* | *厚
thick / deep or profound / kind / generous / rich or strong in flavor / to favor / to stress
HSK 4
genuine; real; true / really; indeed
HSK 2
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  *土* | 土* | *土
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
HSK 3
universal / general / widespread / common
HSK 3
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  *真* | 真* | *真
really / truly / indeed / real / true / genuine
HSK 1
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  *阴* | 阴* | *阴
overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia
HSK 2
to change; to turn; to convert / (genetics) to transform / (chemistry) isomerization
HSK 5
to spread extensively / to generalize / widespread / popular / universal / ubiquitous / pervasive
HSK 3
to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration
HSK 6
to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being / to be born with; to be blessed with
HSK 5
as one wishes / as one pleases / at random / negligent / casual / wanton
HSK 2
artificial intelligence (AI)
HSK 7-9
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  *轻* | 轻* | *轻
light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage
HSK 2
to extend / to spread / to popularize / generalization / promotion (of a product etc)
HSK 3
whole; entirety / overall; whole; general / on the whole; overall
HSK 3
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  *员* | 员* | *员
(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity / (bound form) member / classifier for military generals
HSK 3
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  *属* | 属* | *属
category / genus (taxonomy) / family members / dependents / to belong to / subordinate to / affiliated with / be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals) / to be / to prove to be / to constitute
HSK 3
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  *辣* | 辣* | *辣
hot (spicy) / pungent / (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting / to burn
HSK 4
chairman / director-general (of a company etc)
HSK 5
mild / gentle / moderate
HSK 5
general merchandise
HSK 4
office; agency; bureau
HSK 6
legend / fairy tale / myth / mythology
HSK 4
light / gentle / relaxed / effortless / uncomplicated / to relax / to take things less seriously
HSK 4
poplar tree / various trees of genus Populus
HSK 7-9
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *119* | 119* | *119
the emergency number for firefighting services in Mainland China
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *120* | 120* | *120
the emergency number for medical assistance and first aid in Mainland China
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
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  *切* | 切* | *切
to cut; to slice; to carve / (math.) tangential
HSK 4
plastic; plastics (general term for synthetic polymer materials)
HSK 4
generous / magnanimous / stylish / in good taste / easy-mannered / natural and relaxed
HSK 4
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  *常* | 常* | *常
always / ever / often / frequently / common / general / constant
HSK 1
to have as a feature or characteristic; to have an element of (confidence, sweetness, malevolence etc); to carry (a pathogen, connotation etc)
HSK 5
general academic senior high school (as opposed to vocational high schools)
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  *摘* | 摘* | *摘
to take; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc) / to select; to pick out / to borrow money at a time of urgent need
HSK 5
general academic senior high school (as opposed to vocational high schools) (abbr. for 普通高中)
Generation Z; Zoomers
lit. music, women, dogs and horses (traditional aristocratic amusements, with dogs and horses referring to activities such as hunting and riding) (idiom) / fig. wine, women and song; dissolute pleasures; a life of sensual indulgence
wisdom; intelligence
HSK 6
(idiom) with real guns and live ammunition; (fig.) for real (involving genuine action rather than rehearsal, simulation or theory); (coll.) to have actual sex; to go all the way
(Internet slang) god-tier; legendary
the next generation
HSK 7-9
motive / intention / to be diligent or attentive / careful
HSK 6
urgent / emergency
HSK 3
next-generation
true nature; original state / true to one's nature; genuine and unpretentious
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  *乘* | 乘* | *乘
(archaic) four horse military chariot / (archaic) four / generic term for history books
to show ingenuity / (of a design) clever / brilliantly conceived
HSK 7-9
to replace the old with new / to renew / to renovate / to upgrade / to update / to regenerate
HSK 5
slowly / gently
HSK 7-9
common sense; general knowledge
HSK 4
to summarize; to generalize / briefly; in broad outline
HSK 4
to generate electricity / to send a telegram
HSK 6
to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world / (esp. of a child) sensible; thoughtful; intelligent
HSK 7-9
senior / older generation / precursor
HSK 7-9
to give emergency treatment / first aid
HSK 6

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