| | period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort | HSK 3 |
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| | skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort | HSK 3 |
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| | doctor; physician | HSK 3 |
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| | husband | HSK 4 |
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| | Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003) | |
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| | former husband | |
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| | street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper | |
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| | peddler / street vendor | |
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| | Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname) | |
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| | husband of older female cousin via female line | |
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| | Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995 | |
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| | Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria | |
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| | to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts | |
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| | (coll.) older sister's husband | |
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| | younger sister's husband | |
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| | peasant / farmer | |
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| | (old) laborer | |
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| | fisherman | |
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| | Steve (male name) | |
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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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| | Wolf, Woolf (name) | |
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| | tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator | |
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| | married man; husband (as a social role) | |
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| | Ralph (name) | |
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| | Joseph (name) | |
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| | mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister | |
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| | ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow | |
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| | scholar officials | |
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| | groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer | |
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| | Wroclaw, Polish city | |
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| | butcher / fig. murderous dictator | |
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| | (in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service | |
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| | old wifeless man; bachelor; widower | |
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| | male adulterer | |
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| | I (spoken by an old man) | |
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| | boatman | |
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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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| | Düsseldorf (city in Germany) | |
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| | Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008 | |
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| | Sharif (name) / Nawaz Sharif (1949-), Pakistani politician | |
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| | Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa | |
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| | Jeff or Geoff (name) | |
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| | burlak (barge hauler) | |
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| | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist | |
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| | M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer | |
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| | mess cook (old) | |
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| | Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist | |
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| | father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle | |
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| | Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964 | |
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| | porter / bearer | |
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| | Cardiff | |
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| | Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019 | |
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| | a manly man / a man of character | |
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| | Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008 | |
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| | Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city) | |
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| | sole ruler / dictator | |
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| | older sister's husband | |
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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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| | porter | |
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| | fiancé | |
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| | pole carrier / coffin-bearer | |
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| | the Maldives | |
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| | senior official (in imperial China) | |
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| | waffle (loanword) | |
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| | fisher / fisherman | |
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| | (archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife | |
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| | Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon | |
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| | bachelor / unmarried man | |
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| | to force into service / press-gang | |
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| | lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour | |
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| | husband of younger female cousin via female line | |
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| | Slavic | |
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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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| | Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza | |
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| | Rosneft (Russian state oil company) | |
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| | Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist | |
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| | Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of ( 平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake) | |
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| | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays | |
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| | Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist | |
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| | waffle (loanword) | |
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| | Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004 | |
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| | traveler / soldier on expedition / soldier taking part in battle | |
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| | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist | |
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| | porter for a palanquin | |
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| | househusband | |
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| | (loanword) golf | |
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| | (coll.) quack (doctor) / charlatan | |
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| | pedicab driver | |
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| | married man | |
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| | Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle) | |
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| | married woman's lover | |
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| | Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC) | |
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| | (coll.) he-man | |
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| | FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008 | |
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| | Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer | |
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| | househusband | |
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| | no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless. | |
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| | to spend a great deal of time and effort / (of a task) demanding / exacting | |
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