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HSK
country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to return home
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傢* | 傢* | *傢
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
painter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
whole family
HSK 2
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
expert; specialist
HSK 3
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
winner
HSK 7-9
factory; manufacturer / (coll.) a factory owner; the factory management
HSK 7-9
exclusive
HSK 7-9
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
(old) butler; steward / manager; administrator; housekeeper / to manage a household
HSK 7-9
loser (as opposed to winner 贏家|赢家)
HSK 7-9
connoisseur; expert; veteran
HSK 7-9
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
musician
a collector (e.g. of artworks)
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
IKEA, Swedish furniture retailer
to manage the household / to be the one in charge of the family / to call the shots / to be in charge
royal / imperial household
player (of a game) / enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
merchant / business / enterprise
Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south
a revolutionary
FamilyMart (convenience store chain)
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
(old) shopkeeper; innkeeper / (dialect) shop; store
School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names
renowned expert / master (of an art or craft)
restaurant / bartender / (old) wineshop / tavern
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
artist / CL: 個|个, ,
many schools of thought / many people or households
scientist / CL: 個|个
oneself / one's own family
statesman / politician / CL: 個|个, ,
to settle down / to set up a home
private / privately owned or managed
perfect / excellent / brought to the utmost degree
next-door neighbor; neighboring household
to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
sophist / one who relies on specious arguments
to lay down a family fortune / to get rich / to become prosperous
inventor
residence / household / to reside
Buddhism / Buddhist
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
Six schools of pre-Han philosophy, as analyzed by 司馬談|司马谈 (儒家, 道家, 陰陽|阴阳, 法家, 名家, and 墨家)
composer / songwriter
explorer
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings / banker (gambling) / preceding player (in a game) / (dialect) boss / proprietor
pianist
athlete / sportsman / activist
to take care of one's family
adventurer
to squander a family fortune
respectable family; decent family
to go back to one's roots / to return to one's native place / by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die)
partner (in four person game) / family of proposed marriage partner
sculptor
family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)
mathematician
family-like close relationship (idiom)
to support a family / to raise a family
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
critic / reviewer
physicist
biologist
enemy / foe / (in opera) sweetheart or destined love
homesick
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
wife's family (before marriage)
to pass on through the generations
Mohist School of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), founded by the philosopher 墨子
educationalist
quarrelsome but loving couple
archaeologist
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
prophet
calligrapher
the whole family
banker
I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas)
philosopher
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
developing country
to search a house and confiscate possessions
to housekeep; to run one's household
observer (esp. one who analyzes social or political affairs)

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