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world / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
World Cup
HSK 3
century / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to pass away / to die
HSK 3
worldwide / entire world
HSK 5
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
(soccer slang) spectacular, world-class goal; wonder goal (originally Cantonese: is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bo1])
world-class
HSK 7-9
world-famous (idiom)
HSK 7-9
global economy; world economy
(ACG) another world; parallel universe (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 異世界 "isekai")
World Expo (abbr. for 世界博覽會|世界博览会)
succession / inheritance / hereditary
HSK 7-9
21st century
ranked number one in the world / the world's first
world war
global warming
to receive worldwide attention
HSK 7-9
WTO (World Trade Organization)
a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
World Health Organization (WHO)
world trade / global trade
the ways of the world
on earth
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life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble
Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西 ethnic group
creation myth
world famous
world record
20th century
later generations
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
profane / secular / worldly
worldly affairs / the ways of the world
World Health Organization (WHO) (abbr. for 世界衛生組織|世界卫生组织)
ukiyo-e
Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
to engage with secular society / to involve oneself in human affairs / to join the WTO (abbr. for 加入世界貿易組織|加入世界贸易组织)
good-for-nothing / fool
world map
World Trade Organization (WTO) / abbr. for 世界貿易組織|世界贸易组织
the wider world / diverse aspects of society
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
to pass away / to die
HSK 7-9
universally shocking / to offend the whole of society
(biology) alternation of generations / (fig.) generational succession; passing of the torch from one generation to the next
abbr. for 世界博覽會|世界博览会, World Expo
World Bank
worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world
to conduct oneself in society
people (in general); people around the world; everyone
World War II
the world / this world / the world of the living
to announce to the world (idiom) / to make public / to let everyone know
to travel around the world
world championship
generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)
crown prince; heir of a noble house
world power
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Trade Center
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
way of life / attitude / modus operandi
unrivaled (idiom); world number one / unique / unequaled
HSK 7-9
World Journal, US newspaper
end of the world
world famous
World Health Assembly
world / earth
(idiom) to come to the fore in spectacular fashion; to emerge from obscurity to achieve great success
one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history
(literary) to pass away; to die; to depart from this world
World Customs Organization
the hypocrisy of the world (idiom)
Gone with the Wind (film)
previous generations / previous incarnation (Buddhism)
the creation of the world
peace and prosperity (idiom)
the objective world (as opposed to empirical observation)
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
World Games
lineage / genealogy / family tree
final years of the century
to be alive
World Games (abbr. for 世界運動會|世界运动会) / (old) (Tw, HK) Olympic Games
(one's) inner world
unique / exceptional
Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙 published in 1624
Bosch (surname) / Bosch, German technology company
World Wildlife Fund WWF
One world - one dream, motto of 2008 Beijing Olympic games
(idiom) to fight the whole world
throughout the world / world ranking (e.g. first)
A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆
Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗 (599-649), reigned 626-649
JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
affairs of life / things of the world
World food program (United Nations aid agency)

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