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HSK
master / host / owner / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
main; principal; major; primary
HSK 2
to take the initiative / to do sth of one's own accord / spontaneous / active / opposite: passive 被動|被动 / drive (of gears and shafts etc)
HSK 3
to act independently; to be autonomous; to be in control of one's own affairs
HSK 3
director / head / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to take charge of / to manage or direct / to preside over / to uphold / to stand for (justice etc) / to host (a TV or radio program etc) / (TV) anchor
HSK 3
to advocate / to stand for / view / position / stand / proposition / viewpoint / assertion / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
plan / idea / decision / CL: 個|个 / Beijing pr. [zhu2 yi5]
HSK 3
theme / subject
HSK 4
chairperson / premier / chairman / CL: 個|个,
HSK 4
subjective
HSK 5
to rely mainly on / to attach most importance to
HSK 5
in charge / responsible for / person in charge / manager
HSK 5
leading / dominant / prevailing / to lead / to direct / to dominate
HSK 5
to organize / to host (a conference or sports event)
HSK 5
main part / bulk / body / subject / agent
HSK 5
vehicle owner
HSK 5
princess
HSK 6
host; master of ceremonies; (TV or radio) presenter; anchor / (Tw) (research project) principal investigator (PI); program director
HSK 6
main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc)
HSK 6
leading role; lead / protagonist
HSK 6
democracy / democratic
HSK 6
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owner / master / host / individual or party concerned / God / Lord / main / to indicate or signify / trump card (in card games)
HSK 7-9
to play the leading role; to star / lead actor
HSK 7-9
home page
HSK 7-9
-ism / ideology
HSK 7-9
sovereignty
HSK 7-9
socialism
HSK 7-9
Catholicism
HSK 7-9
housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess
HSK 7-9
editor in chief
HSK 7-9
employer
HSK 7-9
independent and autonomous (idiom); self-determination / to act independently / to maintain control over one's own affairs
HSK 7-9
staple food
HSK 7-9
(idiom) can't help but; involuntarily
HSK 7-9
host / official host (e.g. venue for games or a conference)
HSK 7-9
variant of 雇主
HSK 7-9
theme song
HSK 7-9
bureaucracy
HSK 7-9
imperialism
HSK 7-9
capitalism
HSK 7-9
to dominate / to rule / to dictate / master
HSK 7-9
hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist
HSK 7-9
main force / main strength of an army
HSK 7-9
to come up with ideas / to make suggestions / to offer advice
HSK 7-9
to perform the sacrificial rites at a funeral
owner of sth lost or stolen
(Internet slang) uploader (person who uploads a video or other content to the Internet) / pronounced [a4 pu5 zhu3] / (loanword from Japanese うp, "upunushi")
Nazism
environmentalism
postmodernism
head of a (university) department; department chair
lit. the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. to turn from passive to active behavior
(music) lead single; the main song promoted from an album
lit. little princess / fig. spoiled girl / female version of 小皇帝
conservatism
nationalism / statism
hostess / mistress
suzerain state / mother country (of a colony)
democracy (as a system of government)
main reason
(neologism c. 1997) (coll.) self-entitlement
China Democratic League
video game console
Freeganism
leadership
Sunday School
head priest of a temple
historical materialism (Marx's theory of history)
blogger
Zionism
commander-in-chief (military) / star player (sports) / key figure (in an organization)
main engine / (military) lead aircraft / (computing) host computer / main processor / server
active immunity
rationalism
rich man / moneybags
Lord's Prayer
objectivist philosophy
main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme
factory owner
subject-verb-object SVO or subject-predicate-object sentence pattern (e.g. in Chinese grammar)
owner (e.g. of a shop)
axis / principal axis (in mechanics, optics, botany etc) / main axle (of engine)
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
(news) anchor; (program) host; (Internet) streamer
to give a lecture / to lecture on
shop owner
chauvinism
main business
forum moderator / webmaster
(sports) referee; umpire
nudist
owner / proprietor
trunk / main / core
utopian socialism
main assault / to focus on / to specialize in / to major in
people's democratic dictatorship
not to stick to the old conventions
original poster (in an online forum) / landlord of a building (traditional)
monarch / sovereign

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