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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *了* | 了* | *了
(completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *了* | 了* | *了
(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly
HSK 3
for; for the purpose of; in order to
HSK 3
to understand / to realize / to find out
HSK 4
to understand / to realize / to find out
HSK 4
amazing / terrific / extraordinary
HSK 4
desperately serious / disastrous / extremely / exceedingly
HSK 5
unbearable / unable to endure / can't stand
HSK 4
say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject
HSK 7-9
to be finished / to be done for / ruined / gone to the dogs / oh no
HSK 5
apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他誰也沒來|除了他谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語他也會法語|除了英语他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B")
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *了* | 了* | *了
to finish / (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 "cannot forget") / (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无 or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least / to understand clearly (variant of 瞭|了)
HSK 3
failed; busted; to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company; to have chilled (of a relationship)
HSK 7-9
obvious at a glance (idiom)
HSK 7-9
obvious at a glance (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to settle / to finish / to conclude / to wind up
HSK 7-9
all right! / that's enough!
HSK 5
at last / finally / in the end
Correct! / Oh, that's right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention) / Oh, by the way, ...
the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
I've got a solution! / to have a bun in the oven (abbr. for 有了胎)
a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much)
HSK 6
sorry to interrupt you, but ... / sorry to have bothered you / sorry, I have to go / (slang) (coined c. 2017) used facetiously to terminate a conversation (esp. online) when the other person is being insufferable
terrific / terrible / (after ) very
exceptional / outstanding / dreadful / appalling
won't get far; unlikely to be successful
let it be / let it pass / forget about it
HSK 6
unavoidable / can't be avoided
HSK 7-9
to be dead / not to be, or cease to exist
to be ready
to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom) / to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
very good
to spare / to forgive
lit. the dishes are cold (idiom) / fig. to arrive late; to take one's sweet time
(idiom) to be well aware; to understand clearly
to be sold out / to be out of stock
to resolve / to settle
HSK 7-9
to be getting on in years / to be of the older generation
fed up of hearing
Here we go again.
to dispose of a matter / to be done with it
to bring to a conclusion / to settle (a dispute) / to do away with (oneself) / to break off (a relationship) / resolution (of a problem)
clear and simple / in simple terms
(idiom) once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved; death ends all one's troubles
to end
to settle a matter by leaving it unsettled / to end up with nothing definite
HSK 7-9
(Tw) (Internet slang) too late, someone posted that already (supposedly from "lag" misspelled as "leg")
late
no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)
(as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth) / (pattern: {verb} + 個|个 + ~) without end; incessantly
to be dead / to have passed away
(slang) awesome; amazing; too cool!; sick
to have disappeared / to be missing / nowhere to be found
(Buddhism) to fully understand / to understand completely
it's getting late; time's getting on
cannot do without / to be unavoidable / are bound to be many
HSK 7-9
to realize clearly / to settle a matter / to get it over with
then it's too late (colloquial)
What decade are you living in? / That's so out-of-date!
gosh! / oh no! / darn!
it takes all sorts (to make a world) (idiom)
at the last moment / right at the end
at worst; if worst comes to worst / (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming
that's that; that's it; that will do
end / conclusion / solution
extremely / exceedingly
to not use all of / to use less than
better kept under the table (idiom) / not to be disclosed / too inferior to show in public
What's up? / What's going on? / What happened?
to laugh away (instead of taking seriously)
to play tricks on / to make a fool of
to live out one's life / to die
to lose all interest in life (idiom)
to be on the verge of tears
unoriginal / stereotyped
to let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)
lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
what a coincidence!
cannot forget
to settle in court (opposite: 私了)
(slang) (I'm, you're) toast; so screwed; it's game over (for sb); (sth) bit the dust
to turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into no problems at all (idiom)
direct and plainspoken (idiom); blunt / straightforward
to understand clearly; evident
how can this be? / what's to be done? / what an awful mess!
to understand clearly / evident
cicada (onom.)
awesome / brilliant / magnificent
to be done / to be ready / that's enough! / that will do!
without end / incessantly / on and on
HSK 7-9
felt a chill (in one's heart) / (one's heart) sank
to be unable to extricate oneself gracefully / to be put on the spot / to be embarrassed
(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)
sth bad happened
lit. when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore, and when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (saying) / fig. to be past worrying (about sth)

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