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  *去* | 去* | *去
to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
HSK 1
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  *掉* | 掉* | *掉
to fall / to drop / to lag behind / to lose / to go missing / to reduce / fall (in prices) / to lose (value, weight etc) / to wag / to swing / to turn / to change / to exchange / to swap / to show off / to shed (hair) / (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
HSK 2
to handle; to deal with / to punish / to treat sth by a special process; to process / to sell at reduced prices
HSK 3
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  *约* | 约* | *约
to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise
HSK 3
to reduce; to decrease; to shrink
HSK 4
to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower
HSK 4
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  *减* | 减* | *减
to lower / to decrease / to reduce / to subtract / to diminish
HSK 4
to shorten; to reduce; to curtail
HSK 4
to reduce; to lower; to bring down
HSK 4
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  *杀* | 杀* | *杀
to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack / to weaken; to reduce / (dialect) to smart / (used after a verb) extremely
HSK 5
that's fine / may as well / (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ...
HSK 5
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  *消* | 消* | *消
to diminish; to subside / to consume; to reduce / to idle away (the time) / (after or or etc) to need; to require; to take
HSK 7-9
to restore to the original state / to reconstruct (an event) / reduction (chemistry)
HSK 7-9
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  *缩* | 缩* | *缩
to withdraw / to pull back / to contract / to shrink / to reduce / abbreviation / also pr. [su4]
HSK 7-9
to auction / auction sale / to sell at a reduced price
HSK 7-9
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  *裁* | 裁* | *裁
to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment
HSK 7-9
to simplify / to reduce
HSK 7-9
to reduce pressure / to relax
HSK 7-9
to reduce or waive (taxes, punishment, rent, tuition etc)
HSK 7-9
to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll)
HSK 7-9
long and tedious / redundant / superfluous / supernumerary / verbose (of writing)
HSK 7-9
to reduce speed; to slow down
HSK 7-9
(economics) to reduce / to curtail / to cut back / to tighten / austerity / tightening / crunch
HSK 7-9
redundant number
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
degree of reduction (in prices, numbers etc) / decline / drop
voltaren, a trade name for diclofenac sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce swelling and as painkiller / also called 扶他林
to reduce the pace (of movements, steps etc)
to reduce the tax rate
to reduce fever / antipyretic / to decrease inflammation
sulfa drugs / sulfanilamide (used to reduce fever)
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
to reduce rent
redundancy / redundant
to cut down / to reduce / to lower
to reduce the pressure (of a fluid) / to lower one's blood pressure / to lower (or step down) the voltage
the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment
to reduce by half
to lower / to reduce
to produce less / to reduce output / lower yield
to reduce swelling / detumescence / (fig.) to streamline (a bloated bureaucracy etc)
level of heat / (fig.) zeal / fervor / (coll.) a temperature (i.e. abnormally high body heat)
noise reduction
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  *削* | 削* | *削
to pare / to reduce / to remove / Taiwan pr. [xue4]
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  *沦* | 沦* | *沦
to sink (into ruin, oblivion) / to be reduced to
to subdue / to force to capitulate / to reduce to submission / to soothe
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  *呵* | 呵* | *呵
(bound form) to scold / to expel breath / (onom.) laughter (usu. reduplicated) / interjection of surprise
verb reduplication
to sink down to / to be reduced to (sth inferior)
to reduce troop numbers / disarmament
to reduce / to lessen (pain etc) / to deduct (from taxes)
(reduplicated) whether... or... / never mind / fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
to reduce a fever
to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment) / to cut sth in half / to reduce sth by a dramatic margin / to terminate / to cut short
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  *贬* | 贬* | *贬
to diminish / to demote / to reduce or devaluate / to disparage / to censure / to depreciate
amount of reduction; size of discount
sound dissipation / noise reduction
to reduce penalty / shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence
(TCM) to practice bloodletting / (medicine) to perform phlebotomy / (coll.) to make sb bleed; to inflict grievous wounds / (fig.) to cough up a large amount of money / (fig.) to reduce prices drastically
to reduce the number of personnel / to experience a reduction in the number of personnel
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  *喔* | 喔* | *喔
(onom.) cry of a rooster (usu. reduplicated) / Taiwan pr. [wo4]
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  *冗* | 冗* | *冗
extraneous / redundant / superfluous / busy schedule
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  *撙* | 撙* | *撙
to reduce or cut down on / to rein in / to restrain
to reduce a fever
redundant / to pile up
moderator / reducer (mechanical gearbox)
to degenerate / impoverished / to fall (into poverty) / to be reduced (to begging)
to cut / to reduce
to pool orders (for bulk discounts or reduced shipping); to join a group purchase (esp. online)
to reduce / to lessen / to cut down
(plant pathology) to become stunted / (horticulture) to dwarf; to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc) / (fig.) to diminish the status of; to disparage / (fig.) to downplay
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending / to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure
to reduce / to pare down / to streamline
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  *朘* | 朘* | *朘
(literary) to reduce / (literary) to exploit
to make considered reductions / discretionary reduction
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to reduce by fifty percent / half-price
breast reduction / reduction mammaplasty
to reduce the balance sheet
reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths) / to reduce a fraction by canceling common factors in the numerator and denominator
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to reduce / to cut down
to simplify / to reduce to essentials / economical
lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom) / fig. greatly reduced / substantially scaled back
reductio ad absurdum / arguing by contradiction / also called 反證法|反证法
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous
to reduce internal heat (TCM)
to reduce pollutant discharge; to reduce emissions
reduplication of words or syllables (as a stylistic device in Chinese)
person who joins with others to reduce costs (carpooling, group buying, sharing an apartment etc)
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
to reduce payment / to annul (debts, bills, taxes etc) / to let sb off paying
(of an investor) to reduce one's holdings
nuclear weapons reduction (abbr. for 裁減核武器|裁减核武器) / disarmament
to lower salary / to reduce pay
to reduce poverty / poverty reduction
(linguistics) phonological reduction; lazy pronunciation; allegro speech
noise reduction

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