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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
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
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, ...
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
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
very good
to spare / to forgive
lit. the dishes are cold (idiom) / fig. to arrive late; to take one's sweet time
to be sold out / to be out of stock
fed up of hearing
Here we go again.
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
(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
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!
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
extremely / exceedingly
to not use all of / to use less than
What's up? / What's going on? / What happened?
to be on the verge of tears
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)
how can this be? / what's to be done? / what an awful mess!
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
(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)
to speak frankly
HSK 7-9
to understand clearly / to be clear about / plain / clear / also written 明瞭|明了
to understand clearly / to be clear about / plain / clear
super / excellent
OK! / Got it!
a modal particle indicating (don't mind it, ok)
unfinished / outstanding (business) / unfulfilled
(coll.) on the point of death / dying
rabbits don't have long tails (idiom) / its days are numbered / won't last long
extremely stupid
if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)
shoot! / gosh! / oh, no! / (suffix) to the utmost
Portulaca Sundial (a type of plant)
pants fly is down / the barn door is open
(coll.) final part; last bit / (coll.) in the end; finally
(coll.) nobody can beat that; extraordinary; remarkable
(emphatically, in rhetorical questions) possible
to put up with; to endure
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *了* | 了* | *了
unofficial variant of
(coll.) aplenty / millions of
(slang) awesome / dope
one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom)
to settle privately / to solve behind closed doors / to settle out of court
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
to make a mess of sth / to bungle / to mismanage
(coll.) unbearable (Shanghainese)
mythical talking bird / mynah bird
(Internet slang) I can't even... / Are you kidding me! / OMG!
does not count for anything / of no account
(coll.) okay (loanword from "over")
(coll.) (after adjectives such as , , 遠|远, ) very / extremely
mythical talking bird / mynah bird
cannot compare to / to be no match for
green in the face (idiom) / to look unwell


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