| | name (of a person or thing) / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 1 |
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| | character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | numeral / digit / number / figure / amount / digital (electronics etc) / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | Chinese character(s) | HSK 1 |
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| | letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個｜个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | HSK 1 |
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| | to sign (one's name) / signature | HSK 5 |
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| | incorrectly written or mispronounced characters | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in a row; in a line | |
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| | cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten | |
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| | pictogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character derived from a picture / sometimes called hieroglyph | |
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| | single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language) | |
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| | single-component character | |
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| | to write an inscription (poem, remark, autograph etc) / an inscription | |
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| | to learn to read / able to read; literate | HSK 6 |
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| | simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字｜繁体字 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | everyday words | |
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| | nonstandard form of a Chinese character | |
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| | the character 8 or 八 / birthdate characters used in fortune-telling | |
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| | betrothed | |
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| | Japanese-style emoticon, e.g. (⇀‸↼‶) | |
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| | simplified Chinese character | |
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| | character with two or more readings | |
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| | keyword | |
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| | illiterate | |
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| | to type (using a keyboard, typewriter or phone etc) | |
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| | the alphabet / latin letters | |
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| | phonetic alphabet / alphabetic writing system | |
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| | standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters | |
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| | (financial) deficit / red letter | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to pronounce (clearly or otherwise) / to enunciate | |
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| | to write (by hand) / to practice calligraphy | |
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| | mispronounced or wrongly written character | |
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| | T-shaped | |
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| | numeral / digit / number / figure | |
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| | emoji | |
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| | loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan | |
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| | movable type | |
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| | to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording | |
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| | (literary) (of a young lady) to be awaiting betrothal | |
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| | to correct an erroneously written character / regular script (calligraphy) / standard form (of a character or spelling) | |
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| | original form of a Chinese character | |
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| | synonym | |
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| | to tattoo | |
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| | Red Cross | |
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| | to use letters / to use words / diction | |
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| | to practice writing characters | |
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| | ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character | |
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| | phono-semantic compound character | |
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| | abbreviated character | |
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| | (orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case) / consistent characters (e.g. 搖｜摇, 遙｜遥 and 謠｜谣, which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo) | |
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| | (cognitive psychology) probe letter | |
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| | abbreviated character / simplified character | |
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| | character serving as sound value of another character / phonetic | |
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| | largest typeface / biggest letters | |
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| | diction; enunciation / (opera) to pronounce the words correctly | |
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| | incorrect character / typo (in Chinese text) | |
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| | ideograph / ideographical writing system | |
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| | phonetic loan character / using one character interchangeably for phonetically related characters | |
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| | bold characters; bold font | |
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| | combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound | |
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| | (written) in black and white | |
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| | character with opposite meaning / antonym / opposite characters | |
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| | to spell / spelling | |
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| | Shuowen Jiezi, the earliest systematic Chinese character dictionary, compiled by Xu Shen 許慎｜许慎 in the Eastern Han dynasty (2nd century), containing 10,516 entries | |
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| | a scholarly and inquisitive individual (idiom) | |
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| | character that is difficult to recognize or write | |
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| | cloze (loanword) (Tw) | |
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| | cuneiform (Babylonian script) | |
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| | oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script) | |
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| | wrongly written or mispronounced character | |
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| | word formation | |
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| | braille | |
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| | (typography) ligature | |
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| | fortune telling by unpicking Chinese characters | |
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| | traditional Chinese character | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Roman numerals | |
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| | pictogram / hieroglyph | |
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| | Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character) | |
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| | Vietnam characters (like Chinese characters but native to Vietnam) | |
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| | Chinese character (Hanzi) / the native script used to write a nation's language | |
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| | (idiom) able to read; literate | |
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| | (orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case) / inconsistent characters (e.g. 流, 梳 and 毓, which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component) | |
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| | Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a romanization system for Chinese devised by Y.R. Chao and others in 1925-26 | |
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| | regular script (Chinese calligraphic style) | |
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| | to create Chinese characters / cf Six Methods of forming Chinese characters 六書｜六书 | |
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| | ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character indicating an idea, such as up and down / also known as self-explanatory character | |
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| | to craft one's words | |
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| | exception(s) | |
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| | a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意｜会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲｜形声 | |
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| | to practice writing characters | |
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| | initial / first letter of word (in Latin script) | |
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| | shallow orthography (governed by simple rules) | |
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| | the Latin alphabet | |
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| | new character (in textbook) / character that is unfamiliar or not yet studied | |
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| | nonstandard form of a Chinese character | |
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| | China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs / Unihan | |
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| | abbreviated name of an entity (e.g. 皖政, a short name for 安徽省人民政府) / code name / (old) pronoun | |
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