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HSK
famous / well-known
HSK 1
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  *名* | 名* | *名
name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people
HSK 2
surname and given name; full name
HSK 2
to sign up / to enter one's name / to apply / to register / to enroll / to enlist
HSK 2
to rank (1st, 2nd etc) / ranking
HSK 3
roll call / to mention sb by name / (to call or praise or criticize sb) by name
HSK 4
famous / noted / well-known / celebrated
HSK 4
to sign (one's name with a pen etc) / to autograph / signature
HSK 5
well-known; famous
HSK 6
well-known for sth / to become well known / to make one's mark / to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
HSK 6
place name / toponym
HSK 6
to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming
HSK 7-9
to nominate
HSK 7-9
to rename
HSK 7-9
well-known / famous / renowned / eminent
HSK 7-9
anonymous
HSK 7-9
world-famous (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to be known far and wide / to be well-known
HSK 7-9
famous
HSK 7-9
inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable
scientific name / Latin name (of plant or animal) / (according to an old system of nomenclature) on entering school life, a formal personal name given to new students
to win top marks in the imperial examinations
translated names / transliteration
to name / to christen / to take a name
(computing) domain name
first place / leader (of a race)
jointly (signed, declared, sponsored)
nameless / obscure
to name / to be named / to christen / to seek fame
to mention by name / to designate / designated
name of a book / reputation as calligrapher
to make one's name; to become famous
personal name
to sign (a signature)
to rename
of the same name / homonymous / self-titled (album)
username; user ID
real-name (registration etc) / non-anonymous
Daming county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸, Hebei
famous name / your distinguished name / one's formal personal name / (Japanese history) daimyo
original name
rank obtained in the imperial examinations / scholarly honors
charge; accusation / stigma; bad name; stained reputation
to sign / to put one's name to
false name / pseudonym / alias / pen name / the Japanese kana scripts / hiragana 平假名 and katakana 片假名
alias / alternative name
fame for fighting prowess / military glory
to replace the current name or title of sth with a new one that reflects its true nature / rectification of names (a tenet of Confucian philosophy)
your name has been known to me for a long time (polite)
to get one's name / named (after sth)
pen name / pseudonym
reputation / declaration
equally famous
to leave one's name / to leave one's mark
pet name for a child / childhood name
name of a person on the household register (old) / name on a roster / professional name of a prostitute / pseudonym / nickname
to have an undeserved reputation (idiom)
false reputation
hiragana (Japanese script)
katakana (Japanese script)
(computing) to rename
to become famous / to become notorious
seasoned / honed to perfection over centuries / special reserve
scholarly honor (in imperial exams) / rank / achievement / fame / glory
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
to address sb directly by name; to address sb by name without using an honorific title (indicating familiarity or overfamiliarity)
(idiom) to fool the world and usurp a good name
(of an author) anonymous
to spread one's reputation
lit. to go to war without just cause (idiom) / to act without justification
hostname (of a networked computer)
original name; real name / (of foreigners) first name; given name
stage name (of an actor or actress)
nominally / in name only
good name; good reputation
"Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning
famous reputation
vacuous reputation / name without substance / in name only / so-called
vernacular name / lay name (of a priest)
illustrious / prominent / prestigious / well-known
unknown; unrenowned
solfege
to strike off (the rolls) / to remove from a list / to expunge / to expel
famous / celebrated
name of job in Imperial bureaucracy / official position
xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 / the designation for a punishment
to go by an alias; to assume a false name / alias; pseudonym; assumed name
adopted name / to take a name (of one's adoptive family)
(old) to seal an examinee's name on the examination paper to prevent fraud
to name (sth)
bad reputation / stigma
nickname
taboo name / name of deceased
to enquire, according to custom, after the name and horoscope of intended bride / one of a set of six traditional marriage protocols (六禮|六礼), in which name as well as date and time of birth (for horoscope) are formally requested of the prospective bride's family
names of the notes of a musical scale (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi)
(of a document) not bearing a name / unregistered (financial securities etc) / bearer (bond) / secret (ballot etc) / anonymous / unattributed (remarks) / (of a check) payable to the bearer
with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame / nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
an impostor / to impersonate

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