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the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
entrepreneur
to return home
HSK 1
national security
to lose a family fortune (idiom)
HSK 7-9
Wujyachü shehiri (Wujiaqu city) or Wǔjiāqú subprefecture level city in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture in north Xinjiang
Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, in Yichang City 宜昌市, Hubei
area in Beichuan county Sichuan
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
flag carrier
Daoist
to do a background check on sb
to play house (Tw)
master of the house; head of the family
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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
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
family property
housewife
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)
president (title of the head of state of China and several other nations)
musician
(old) wife
the daily life of a family
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
financier; banker
guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canadian federal and national police force / Mounties
group photo of whole family
domestic electric appliance
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
developing country
It is better to squash enmity rather than keeping it alive (proverb)
philosopher
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
sovereign country
Buddhism / Buddhist
(dialect) sparrow
scientist / CL: 個|个
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
family member
family heirloom
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
BRICS (economic bloc)
factory; manufacturer / (coll.) a factory owner; the factory management
HSK 7-9
specialist
Hakka people
composer / songwriter
The Book of Family Names, anonymous Song dynasty reading primer listing 438 surnames
photograph of the entire family / hodgepodge (cookery)
the eight giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修, the three Su's 三蘇|三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩
player (of a game) / enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
family / clan
HSK 7-9
Wong Kar-wai (1956-), Hong Kong film director
School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Zou Yan 鄒衍|邹衍
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
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)
historian
artist / CL: 個|个, ,
the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475–221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
my God! / oh boy! / man!
HSK 7-9
Hakka (a Chinese dialect)
perfect / excellent / brought to the utmost degree
I / me / my / (often used in early vernacular literature)
I / me / we / my home / our house
State Grid Corporation of China
(coll.) everyone; all of us; you folks
private car
HSK 7-9
to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
(administrative) national-level
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself
genealogy / family tree
critic
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
extended family / big family / harmonious group
HSK 7-9
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
(coll.) old fellow / old codger
enemy / foe
national park
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
astronomer
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
to search a house and confiscate possessions
royal / imperial household
to make one's home in a place / to settle
domestic violence
expert evaluation
white goods (such as refrigerators and washing machines)

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