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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *子* | 子* | *子
noun suffix, as in 椅子 "chair"
HSK 1
child
HSK 1
house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, , , , 間|间
HSK 1
children; sons and daughters
HSK 3
sentence / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
baozi; bao (steamed stuffed bun) / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
table / desk / CL: 張|张,
HSK 1
son
HSK 1
wife
HSK 4
grandson / son's son
HSK 4
in a short while / all at once / all of a sudden
HSK 5
woman / female
HSK 3
case / (for) instance / example / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
house / room / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
hat / cap / (fig.) label / bad name / CL: 頂|顶
HSK 4
(for) a lifetime
HSK 5
sand / grit / CL: ,
HSK 3
cup / glass / CL: 個|个, 隻|只
HSK 1
stature; height; size (of a person or object) / (agriculture) bundle of cereal stalks tied together
HSK 2
chopsticks / CL: 對|对, , , 雙|双
HSK 2
bottle / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
sign / trademark / brand
HSK 3
HSK 5
shadow / reflection / (fig.) hint / indication / influence / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
appearance / manner / pattern / model
HSK 2
fork / CL:
HSK 5
suitcase / chest / box / case / trunk / CL: 隻|只, 個|个
HSK 4
seed / CL: 顆|颗,
HSK 3
book / notebook / Japanese-style self-published comic (esp. an erotic one), aka "dōjinshi" / CL: / edition
HSK 1
young man / young guy / lad / youngster / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
blanket; quilt / CL: 條|条,
HSK 3
ruler (measuring instrument) / CL:
HSK 4
email / CL: ,
HSK 3
dumpling / pot-sticker / CL: 個|个, 隻|只
HSK 2
window
HSK 4
box; case / hezi – a savory turnover-like pie in northern Chinese and Mongolian cuisines
HSK 5
courtyard / garden / yard / patio / CL: 個|个 / (old) servant
HSK 2
(medicinal) powder
HSK 5
leaf (CL:) / (slang) marijuana
HSK 4
clippers / scissors / shears / CL:
HSK 5
brains / mind / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
day / a (calendar) date / days of one's life
HSK 2
fat person / fatty
HSK 4
chair / CL: , 張|张
HSK 2
brush / scrub / CL:
HSK 4
fan / CL:
HSK 5
bamboo / CL: ,
HSK 5
stool / small seat
HSK 7-9
stove / oven / furnace
HSK 7-9
nail / snag / saboteur
HSK 7-9
cupboard / cabinet
HSK 5
test paper; examination paper
HSK 7-9
swindler / a cheat
HSK 5
socks / stockings / CL: 隻|只, 對|对, 雙|双
HSK 4
duck / male prostitute (slang)
HSK 5
(coll.) unorthodox (method etc)
tray / plate / dish / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
place / seat
HSK 7-9
draft of a document / script / manuscript / mental plan / precedent
HSK 6
ladder / stepladder
HSK 7-9
a man; a male
HSK 3
Scout (youth organization)
child soldiers / juvenile militia
HSK 5
electronic edition / digital version
HSK 5
insect / bug / worm / CL: 條|条, 隻|只
HSK 4
wheel / (derog.) Falun Gong practitioner / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
glutinous rice and choice of filling wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *子* | 子* | *子
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
disciple; follower
HSK 7-9
pillar / CL:
HSK 6
father and son
HSK 6
skirt / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
mirror / CL: , 個|个
HSK 4
belly / abdomen / stomach / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
persimmon / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
tangerine / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
molecular biology
intellectual; intelligentsia
HSK 7-9
Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi
father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
wife and children
(literary) student / scholar
HSK 7-9
Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书
bamboo flute / CL:
HSK 7-9
body / pregnancy / health
HSK 7-9
pond / bathhouse pool / dance floor of a ballroom / (old) stalls (front rows in a theater)
HSK 5
prince / son of a king
HSK 6
outer surface; the outside of sth / social prestige; face
HSK 5
Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子
nobleman / person of noble character
HSK 7-9
suspect; person under suspicion
beard / mustache or whiskers / facial hair / CL: , / (coll.) bandit
HSK 5
atomic nucleus
cage; basket; container
HSK 7-9
(airplane) black box
rock-paper-scissors (hand game)
endgame (in go)
stick; rod
HSK 7-9

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