| | to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief) | HSK 2 |
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| | letter / mail / CL: 封 / to trust / to believe / to profess faith in / truthful / confidence / trust / at will / at random | HSK 2 |
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| | to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true | HSK 2 |
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| | to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of) | HSK 1 |
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| | to believe; to think; to consider; to feel | HSK 2 |
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| | to maintain (that sth is true) / to determine (a fact) / determination (of an amount) / of the firm opinion / to believe firmly / to set one's mind on / to identify with | HSK 5 |
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| | to believe oneself infallible (idiom) / to be opinionated | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | according to belief / it is believed that | |
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| | to believe (sth in relation to oneself) / to regard oneself as / to acknowledge (sth in relation to oneself) / to resign oneself to | |
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| | to believe firmly | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to have faith in / to believe in / to have confidence in / to respect | |
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| | to believe in (a religion) / firm belief / conviction | HSK 6 |
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| | to be convinced / to be sure / to firmly believe / to be positive that / definite news | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) half believing, half doubting; not quite convinced; skeptical | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (telecommunications) channel / (in Confucian texts) to believe in the principles of wisdom and follow them | |
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| | to offer (tribute) / to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc) / to esteem / to revere / to believe in (a religion) / to wait upon / to accept orders (from superior) | |
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| | the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475–221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist | |
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| | to believe firmly / without any doubt | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (Daoism) a spirit medium, often a young person, believed to be possessed by a deity during rituals, acting as an intermediary for communication between the spirit world and humans | |
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| | to believe firmly without any doubt (idiom) / absolute certainty about sth | |
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| | trustworthy / reliable / to believe something to be true | |
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| | to listen to information / to get the news / to believe what one hears | |
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| | (idiom) hard to believe; incredible | HSK 7-9 |
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| | seeing is believing | |
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| | to identify clearly / to make sure of / to believe firmly | |
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| | pretense that turns into reality (idiom); to play at make-believe, but accidentally make it true | |
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| | to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so. | |
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| | lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous | |
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| | to consider oneself as / to believe oneself to be | |
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| | to criticize sb for what one believes to be their ulterior motive | |
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| | to deceive others and to deceive oneself / to believe one's own lies | |
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| | Sun Wu, also known as Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | night demon (malign spirit believed to plague people during sleep) | |
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| | Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts | |
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| | to believe (what sb claims) (usually used in the negative) / (math.) confidence (interval etc) | |
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| | to believe in (a deity or other supernatural being) / to worship | |
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| | seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing | |
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| | to sincerely believe | |
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| | the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during festivities) / (slang) (Tw) the first reply to a blog post etc | |
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| | to be dazzled / to not believe one's own eyes | |
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| | to trust / to believe in | |
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| | without proof one can't believe it (idiom) | |
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| | maneki-neko or "lucky cat", Japanese figurine cat usually found at the entrance of shops, restaurants etc, believed to bring good fortune | |
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| | green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva / adopted son (Etymology: Wasps of a particular species take caterpillars to their nest as food for their offspring, but it was mistakenly believed that the wasps were raising the caterpillars as their own young.) | |
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| | can't judge true or false (idiom); unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake / not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news) | |
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| | (neologism c. 2017) (slang) to demand proof of what one believes to be an unfounded accusation only to have irrefutable evidence duly supplied | |
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| | to believe / to be convinced | |
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| | lit. see the wind and assume it will rain (idiom); fig. gullible / to believe whatever people suggest | |
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| | (idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing | |
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| | to falsely believe / to be mislead / to fall for (a trick etc) | |
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| | evidence (that one can rely on) / grounds (for believing sth) | |
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| | odd / unusual / I can't believe that ... | |
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| | maybe / possibly / there is reason to believe | |
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