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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
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
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
successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination / palace graduate
knight; cavalier / (Tw) bike rider (scooter, bicycle etc)
strong man / Hercules
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member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
warrior / activist
a warrior / a brave person
warrior / samurai
taxi (loanword)
cheese (loanword) (Tw)
all walks of life
officers and soldiers
(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
Daoist priest
guardian / defender
well-informed source; person with inside information
invite the talented and call the valorous (idiom); to recruit talent
strong man / sumo wrestler
cheese (loanword) / custard powder / (literary) man (laudatory) / person of virtue
matador / toreador / bullfighter
Prussia (historical German state)
toast (loanword)
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
New South Wales, southeast Australian state
person willing to sacrifice his life (for a good cause)
midwife
gladiator
public figure / celebrity
hermit
Wales, constituent nation of UK
the Beatles (music band)
respect for the wise
martyr of the revolution
alchemist
non-party members
skilled manipulator / tactician / strategist / advisor / counsellor
traditionalist / moralist / champion (of a cause)
literati / scholar
Cyrus (name)
high-minded and righteous person / patriot / loyalist
(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)
(old) impoverished scholar
Fuji (Japanese company)
(Tw) postdoc; postdoctoral fellow
knight-errant
alchemist / necromancer
warrior in white / medical worker
defender / apologist
eloquent person / person with rhetoric skills
churchman / clergy
(loanword) pence / penny
attendant to the emperor / wise counselor
friar; frater
(old) a person of literary talent; a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post)
Tabriz city in northwest Iran, capital of Iranian East Azerbaijan
a Confucian scholar
ordinary soldier
fortune-teller who uses the subject's face for his prognostication
(loanword) tip / hint / suggestion / piece of advice
gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
yuppie (loanword) / young urban professional, 1980s slang
Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand)
(idiom) to respect people of virtue and show courtesy to scholars
Doctor of Letters
a professional
ASICS (Japanese footwear brand)
doctor of medicine
odd person / an eccentric
Doctor of Philosophy; PhD
Bachelor of Arts / B.A. / BA / A.B. / Artium Baccalaureus
Doctor of Laws / Legum Doctor
minibus / microbus
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
M.Sc. (Master of Science degree)

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