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HSK
bus (loanword) / motor coach
HSK 4
lady / madam / CL: 個|个, / Miss / Ms
HSK 4
nurse
HSK 4
fighter / soldier / warrior / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
soldier / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
man / gentleman
HSK 4
doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
HSK 5
master's degree / person who has a master's degree / learned person
HSK 5
person / figure / public figure
HSK 5
bachelor's degree / person holding a university degree
HSK 7-9
gentleman
HSK 7-9
morale
HSK 7-9
knight / Sir / (loanword) jazz
HSK 7-9
scholar / academician / fellow (of an academy)
HSK 7-9
martyr
HSK 7-9
cheese (loanword)
HSK 7-9
Switzerland
PhD student; doctoral candidate
whiskey (loanword)
successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination / palace graduate
knight; cavalier / (Tw) bike rider (scooter, bicycle etc)
vaseline (loanword)
Disney, American entertainment conglomerate / Walt Disney (1901-1966), American animator and film producer
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
strong man / Hercules
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
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member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
Mt. Fuji, Japan
Boston, capital of Massachusetts
warrior / activist
a warrior / a brave person
warrior / samurai
taxi (loanword)
Shilin or Shihlin District of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市, Taiwan
cheese (loanword) (Tw)
Houston, Texas
Liechtenstein
Times (newspaper)
all walks of life
officers and soldiers
Shakespeare (name) / William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
(old) to select talented scholars for government service (through exams etc) / (Zhou dynasty) distinguished individuals selected and recommended from various regions to the central government
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
Daoist priest
guardian / defender
well-informed source; person with inside information
invite the talented and call the valorous (idiom); to recruit talent
jazz (loanword)
strong man / sumo wrestler
cheese (loanword) / custard powder / (literary) man (laudatory) / person of virtue
Richmond (name)
matador / toreador / bullfighter
Prussia (historical German state)
toast (loanword)
Master's degree student
missionary
(loanword) sarsaparilla (carbonated soft drink) / (HK) (loanword) SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)
hero / fighter / brave strong guy / warrior (in armor)
soldier / noncommssioned officer (NCO)
the Times (newspaper) / River Thames, through London
elegant scholar
member of religious order / frater
Foxconn Technology Group / abbr. of 富士康科技集團|富士康科技集团
New South Wales, southeast Australian state
Damascus, capital of Syria
person willing to sacrifice his life (for a good cause)
midwife
gladiator
public figure / celebrity
hermit
jazz (loanword)
Wales, constituent nation of UK
the Beatles (music band)
respect for the wise
martyr of the revolution
Bashi Channel in the northern part of the Luzon Strait, just south of Taiwan
alchemist
non-party members
(idiom) "the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
skilled manipulator / tactician / strategist / advisor / counsellor
traditionalist / moralist / champion (of a cause)
(dialect) spanner (loanword)
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
literati / scholar
Cyrus (name)
Welsh (language)
katana
high-minded and righteous person / patriot / loyalist
bushidō or way of the warrior, samurai code of chivalry
scholar officials
(old) candidate who has successfully passed the first grades of the examination system, but not yet the court examination (殿試|殿试)
virtuous person / a man of merit
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
(Singapore, Malaysia) taxi (loanword)
soldier (in battle)
a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart
(old) impoverished scholar
Fuji (Japanese company)
official / scholar (old)

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