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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
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
for; for the purpose of; in order to
HSK 3
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
unbearable / unable to endure / can't stand
HSK 4
all right! / that's enough!
HSK 5
to be finished / to be done for / ruined / gone to the dogs / oh no
HSK 5
desperately serious / disastrous / extremely / exceedingly
HSK 5
a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much)
HSK 6
let it be / let it pass / forget about it
HSK 6
without end / incessantly / on and on
HSK 7-9
unavoidable / can't be avoided
HSK 7-9
cannot do without / to be unavoidable / are bound to be many
HSK 7-9
failed; busted; to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company; to have chilled (of a relationship)
HSK 7-9
say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject
HSK 7-9
to speak frankly
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *了* | 了* | *了
unofficial variant of
extremely / exceedingly
cicada (onom.)
(emphatically, in rhetorical questions) possible
if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)
to settle privately / to solve behind closed doors / to settle out of court
to realize clearly / to settle a matter / to get it over with
unfinished / outstanding (business) / unfulfilled
a modal particle indicating (don't mind it, ok)
to end
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 put up with; to endure
(coll.) final part; last bit / (coll.) in the end; finally
to understand clearly / to be clear about / plain / clear / also written 明瞭|明了
to understand clearly / to be clear about / plain / clear
at the last moment / right at the end
(idiom) once the main problem is solved, all troubles are solved; death ends all one's troubles
at worst; if worst comes to worst / (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming
to be done / to be ready / that's enough! / that will do!
Correct! / Oh, that's right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention) / Oh, by the way, ...
(slang) awesome / dope
to be dead / not to be, or cease to exist
shoot! / gosh! / oh, no! / (suffix) to the utmost
that's that; that's it; that will do
late
to spare / to forgive
at last / finally / in the end
very good
Portulaca Sundial (a type of plant)
to have disappeared / to be missing / nowhere to be found
to be ready
Here we go again.
super / excellent
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
(Internet slang) I can't even... / Are you kidding me! / OMG!
awesome / brilliant / magnificent
to turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into no problems at all (idiom)
cannot forget
What decade are you living in? / That's so out-of-date!
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
mythical talking bird / mynah bird
rabbits don't have long tails (idiom) / its days are numbered / won't last long
(coll.) on the point of death / dying
green in the face (idiom) / to look unwell
then it's too late (colloquial)
gosh! / oh no! / darn!
What's up? / What's going on? / What happened?
(coll.) okay (loanword from "over")
to be dead / to have passed away
(coll.) (after adjectives such as , , 遠|远, ) very / extremely
to settle in court (opposite: 私了)
one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom)
(coll.) aplenty / millions of
pants fly is down / the barn door is open
(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)
what a coincidence!
how can this be? / what's to be done? / what an awful mess!
mythical talking bird / mynah bird
it's getting late; time's getting on
I've got a solution! / to have a bun in the oven (abbr. for 有了胎)
cannot compare to / to be no match for
(coll.) nobody can beat that; extraordinary; remarkable
(slang) awesome; amazing; too cool!; sick
to not use all of / to use less than
to be on the verge of tears
OK! / Got it!
extremely stupid
does not count for anything / of no account
clear and simple / in simple terms
fed up of hearing
(Tw) (Internet slang) too late, someone posted that already (supposedly from "lag" misspelled as "leg")
to make a mess of sth / to bungle / to mismanage
(coll.) unbearable (Shanghainese)
to be sold out / to be out of stock
lit. the dishes are cold (idiom) / fig. to arrive late; to take one's sweet time


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