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| | skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort | HSK 4 |
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| | doctor / physician | HSK 4 |
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| | husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old) | |
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| | (classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion) | |
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| | golf (loanword) | |
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| | Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea) | |
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| | former husband | |
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| | Düsseldorf (Germany) | |
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| | peasant / farmer | |
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| | the Maldives | |
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| | Joseph (name) | |
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| | fisherman | |
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| | Steve (male name) | |
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| | (coll.) older sister's husband | |
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| | butcher / fig. murderous dictator | |
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| | Jeff or Geoff (name) | |
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| | senior official (in imperial China) | |
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| | Wolf, Woolf (name) | |
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| | cart driver / coachman | |
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| | Yugoslavia, 1943-1992 | |
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| | younger sister's husband | |
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| | scholar officials | |
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| | groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer | |
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| | coward | |
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| | Ralph (name) | |
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| | Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa | |
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| | ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow | |
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| | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays | |
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| | street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper | |
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| | to play golf | |
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| | married man | |
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| | burlak (barge hauler) | |
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| | woodman / woodcutter | |
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| | mess cook (old) | |
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| | (old) laborer | |
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| | period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort | |
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| | former husband / widower | |
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| | Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004 | |
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| | Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008 | |
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| | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964 | |
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| | Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-), last president of the Soviet Union 1991-1995 | |
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| | I (spoken by an old man) | |
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| | sick man | |
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| | honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master" | |
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| | Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist | |
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| | male adulterer | |
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| | Saint Joseph | |
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| | Ulanhu (1906-1988), Soviet-trained Mongolian communist who became important PRC military leader | |
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| | Cardiff | |
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| | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist | |
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| | Krakow | |
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| | husband of older female cousin via female line | |
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| | Wroclaw, Polish city | |
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| | Sharif (name) / Nawaz Sharif (1949-), Pakistani politician | |
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| | mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister | |
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| | Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle) | |
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| | Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon | |
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| | boatman | |
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| | Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table | |
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| | Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982 | |
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| | night watchman (in former times) | |
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| | Kasimov (town in Russia) | |
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| | porter | |
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| | common person / ordinary guy / mortal man | |
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| | Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria | |
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| | older sister's husband | |
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| | porter for a palanquin | |
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| | fisher / fisherman | |
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| | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet communist party 1953-1964 / also written 赫魯曉夫|赫鲁晓夫 | |
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| | Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019 | |
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| | rickshaw puller | |
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| | husband of older female cousin via male line | |
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| | father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle | |
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| | to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts | |
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| | Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC) | |
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| | lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour | |
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| | Braşov, Romania | |
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| | Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer | |
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| | pedicab driver | |
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| | bachelor / unmarried man | |
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| | husband of younger female cousin via female line | |
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| | married woman's lover | |
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| | Sakharov (Russian name) | |
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| | the Maldives (Tw) | |
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| | Tupolev, Russian plane maker | |
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| | Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian nuclear scientist and dissident human rights activist | |
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| | Van de Graaff (name) / Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901-1967), American physicist | |
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| | waffle (loanword) | |
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| | to practice (work skills) | |
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| | M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer | |
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| | porter / bearer | |
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| | (coll.) quack (doctor) / charlatan | |
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| | a manly man / a man of character | |
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| | peddler / street vendor | |
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| | sole ruler / dictator | |
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| | Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist | |
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| | Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city) | |
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| | Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges | |
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