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HSK
expert; specialist
HSK 3
to return home
HSK 1
home
HSK 1
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  *家* | 家* | *家
HSK 1
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  *家* | 家* | *家
home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家)
HSK 1
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
household duties / housework
HSK 4
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
family / household / CL: 戶|户, 個|个
HSK 2
family member / (old) servant
HSK 1
whole family
HSK 2
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
family member / (family) dependent
HSK 3
hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
furniture / CL: ,
HSK 3
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
painter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
home / homeland
HSK 6
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
household electric appliance / abbr. for 家用電器|家用电器
HSK 6
the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
collector
entrepreneur
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
sovereign country
national team
domestic electric appliance
mathematician
president (title of the head of state of China and several other nations)
family / clan
HSK 7-9
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
artist / CL: 個|个, ,
National Supervision Commission of the PRC, anti-corruption agency established in 2018
Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang
my God! / oh boy! / man!
HSK 7-9
editor / compiler
developing country
adventurer
to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
area in Beichuan county Sichuan
extended family / big family / harmonious group
HSK 7-9
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
crime of incitement to overthrow the state / abbr. for 煽動顛覆國家政權|煽动颠覆国家政权
notable former families
Daoist
recluse / hikikomori person
housekeeping
HSK 7-9
to play house (Tw)
master of the house; head of the family
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
State Administration Committee on Military Products Trade (SACMPT)
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
national park
State Grid Corporation of China
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
(old) wife
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
the daily life of a family
private car
HSK 7-9
biologist
economist
financier; banker
to manage the household / to be the one in charge of the family / to call the shots / to be in charge
bad guy / scoundrel / dirty bastard
China Writers Association (CWA)
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
every family (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier
Buddhism / Buddhist
Zhangjiagang, a county-level city in Suzhou City 蘇州市|苏州市, Jiangsu
calligrapher
exclusive
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to provide for one's family
family property
medical expert / medical specialist
China National Space Administration (CNSA)
School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
novelist
enemy / foe / (in opera) sweetheart or destined love
merchant / business / enterprise
Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south
philosopher
poultry / domestic fowl
HSK 7-9
(idiom) homeless
HSK 7-9
cartoon writer (from Japanese mangaka)
lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
flag carrier
inventor
(administrative) national-level
sb who gets things done / doer

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