| | between / among / within a definite time or space / room / section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars / classifier for rooms | HSK 1 |
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| | to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) | HSK 1 |
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| | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]) / (math.) sum / to make peace / (sports) to draw; to tie / (bound form) harmonious / (bound form) Japan; Japanese | HSK 1 |
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| | 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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| | to finish work; to get off work / next service (train, bus, etc) | HSK 1 |
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| | hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分) | HSK 1 |
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| | to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects | HSK 3 |
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| | amusing / entertaining / (loanword) cola | HSK 3 |
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| | to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night | HSK 6 |
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| | cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits | HSK 7-9 |
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| | arteries and veins / network of blood vessels / vascular system (of a plant or animal) / (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric") / overall context | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to contain / to hold / (of a person or style etc) reserved / restrained / (of words, writings) full of hidden meaning / implicit / veiled (criticism) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch / the crucial point that brings the subject to life / a few words to clinch the point | HSK 7-9 |
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| | racing bicycle; racing car; sports car / to drive a vehicle (such as a truck or taxi) for a living / (of a conductor or attendant) to work on a train / (mining) (of a cable-car) to slip away (in an accident) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning / (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense / (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to disdain to do sth / to think sth not worth doing / to feel it beneath one's dignity | HSK 7-9 |
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| | would rather / to prefer / how (emphatic) / Taiwan pr. [ning2] | |
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| | snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2] | |
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| | start of literary work / opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞｜弹词 | |
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| | the degree of suspicion that a woman might, after she marries, cheat on her husband (abbr. for "paternity uncertainty") | |
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| | opening (chess etc) / early stage of game, match, work, activity etc | |
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| | branch / stem / stalk / CL: 根 / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏, initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc) | |
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| | to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable) | |
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| | to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women | |
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| | Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning | |
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| | to raise (livestock or poultry) in an open environment / to breed (fish, bees, silkworms etc) in a suitable environment; to culture (kelp etc) / to release (a captive animal) into the wild | |
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| | to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities | |
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| | perceptive; understanding / (archaic) to handle administrative work | |
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| | item (in a program of entertainments) / trick (act of mischief) / worthwhile result / accomplishment / sth significant but not immediately apparent / sth more than meets the eye | |
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| | cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China) | |
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| | to keep one's lips sealed / (of a wound) to heal / to seal (an envelope, bag, container etc) / the sealed opening of an envelope, bag etc / (fig.) to lock down; to finalize (a decision, plan etc) | |
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| | lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括｜赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰｜长平之战 in 260 BC | |
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| | rainbow / neon (loanword) | |
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| | to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白) | |
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| | Poseidon, Greek god of the sea / Neptune, Roman god of the sea / Aquaman, DC comic book superhero / (slang) womanizer / player | |
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| | to migrate to Beijing or Taipei in search of better job opportunities / migrant worker living and working in Beijing or Taipei without a residence permit | |
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| | (of a cadre etc) to work for a period of time with a grassroots unit to gain firsthand experience / (dialect) taking a crap | |
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| | promoter / advocate / driving force / pushing hands (two-person training routine esp. in t'ai chi) | |
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| | to travel or work through night and day / to toil away for long hours | |
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| | to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil | |
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| | lit. navigating a boat against the current (idiom) / fig. in a tough environment (one needs to work hard) | |
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| | to astonish / to startle / to hack (computing, loanword) | |
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| | party affairs / work within the Communist party | |
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| | lit. to slap the table (in amazement, praise, anger, resentment etc) / fig. astonishing!, wonderful!, dreadful! etc | |
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| | to edge a knife, scissor, sword etc | |
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| | burn (i.e. wound) / burning pain | |
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| | lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom); minute criticism of a woman's appearance / fig. to find fault in minor details / to remark upon a person's appearance / nitpicking / overcritical / judgmental | |
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| | interpreting words / to explain the meaning of words in classic texts / to decipher an old script | |
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| | nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙 | |
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| | senior palace maiden / unmarried woman | |
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| | (idiom) blind as a bat (figuratively) / unaware of who (or what) one is dealing with / to fail to recognize what sb a bit more perceptive would | |
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| | lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom); minute criticism of a woman's appearance / fig. to find fault in minor details / nitpicking / overcritical | |
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| | lit. a person who has seen little of the world will be astonished by certain things (idiom) / fig. to be taken aback by sth because of one's lack of sophistication; naive; unworldly | |
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| | (the 3rd part of a 3-part construction: 非 + (noun) + 莫屬｜莫属, meaning "to be none other than (noun); would have to be (noun)") (this construction comes after a description of a person or thing that has a certain attribute) | |
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| | lit. remarkable work appreciated by all (idiom); universally praised (original meaning) / incomprehensible nonsense / preposterous bullshit | |
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| | lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty | |
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| | lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom) / fig. to move at a snail's pace / to make slow progress | |
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| | Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍｜茭白笋, which is swollen by a smut fungus / (variant of 菇) mushroom | |
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| | (of two people in different locations) to sing or otherwise perform together using communications technology | |
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| | plant genus Aconitum, aka monkshood or wolf's bane (used as poison and medicine) / Taiwan pr. [ze2] | |
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| | (Buddhism) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain); to die (loanword from Sanskrit, abbr. for 涅槃那) | |
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| | erotic animation / hentai / (loanword from Japanese 裏番組 "ura bangumi") | |
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| | in my opinion | |
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| | "Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning | |
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| | lightning (archaic word) | |
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| | allele (one of two paired gene in diploid organism) | |
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| | Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two / Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit | |
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| | ideological and political education (abbr. for 思想政治教育) (state-directed education in China aimed at promoting Marxism, patriotism and socialist values, particularly in schools and universities – also, more broadly, ideological guidance in workplaces, media and public discourse) | |
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| | Jiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining town, used as the setting for two well-known movies | |
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| | sinister person / unsavory character / broken (not in working order) | |
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| | lit. when we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through (idiom) / fig. everything will turn out for the best; let's worry about it when it happens; it will be all right on the night | |
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| | fentanyl (loanword) | |
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| | shotacon (Japanese loanword) / manga or anime genre depicting young boys in an erotic manner | |
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| | China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the information hub of the China Earthquake Administration 中國地震局｜中国地震局 | |
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| | maiden name (of married woman) | |
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| | straight or circular throwing-knife used by ninja and samurai (loanword from Japanese 手裏剣 shuriken) | |
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| | Kamikaze Unit (Japanese corps of suicide pilots in World War II) / kamikaze (vodka-based cocktail) | |
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| | the best part of the show is yet to come / (with ironic tone) the worst is yet to come / you ain't seen nothin' yet | |
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| | theory proposed in 2019 on Chinese social media, centering on the idea of China replacing the United States as the dominant nation in a new world order, drawing an analogy with the Manchu overthrow of the Ming dynasty, achieved after the Qing army entered China via the Shanhai Pass 入關｜入关 | |
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| | Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts to women for their companionship and sexual favors | |
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| | lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure / fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man) | |
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| | (before a two-syllable verb) considerably / greatly (exaggerate) / vehemently (oppose) / severely (punish) / extensively (refurbish) / effusively (praise) | |
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| | (Tw) (neologism c. 2007) young person who is not studying, working or being trained for work (loanword from NEET: not in education, employment or training) | |
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| | please don't be upset / no hard feelings / absit iniuria verbis / let injury by words be absent | |
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| | middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age | |
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| | (mining) recoverable / workable | |
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| | (loanword) cyanide / Kaempferia galanga (variant of 山柰) | |
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| | (bird species of China) white-winged woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus) | |
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| | (loanword) Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica) (herb) | |
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| | In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined / wishing for conjugal bliss | |
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| | checked woolen fabric; plaid | |
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| | (bird species of China) white-bellied woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis) | |
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| | lit. secondary foreigner / (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion) / (coll.) westernized Chinese person / (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood / (slang) Ukraine / German shepherd dog / (dialect) two-year-old goat | |
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| | (of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists | |
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| | World Customs Organization | |
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| | World food program (United Nations aid agency) | |
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| | The Strange State of the World Witnessed Over 20 Years, novel by late Qing novelist Wu Jianren 吳趼人｜吴趼人 | |
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| | as I see it / in my opinion | |
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| | honewort / Cryptotaenia japonica | |
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| | (mining) workability (of deposits of coal, ore etc) | |
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