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HSK
individuality / personality
HSK 3
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  *性* | 性* | *性
nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
the male sex / a male
HSK 5
property / characteristic
HSK 5
woman / the female sex
HSK 5
one-off (offer) / one-time / single-use / disposable (goods)
HSK 6
acute
HSK 7-9
hidden / crypto- / recessive (gene)
HSK 7-9
toughness
HSK 7-9
reason / rationality / rational
HSK 7-9
neutral
HSK 7-9
malignant / wicked / vicious (circle) / producing evil / rapid (decline) / runaway (inflation)
HSK 7-9
flexibility / elasticity
HSK 7-9
human nature / humanity / human / the totality of human attributes
HSK 7-9
positive / masculine
HSK 7-9
slow and patient / chronic (disease) / slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison)
HSK 7-9
the opposite sex / of the opposite sex / heterosexual / different in nature
HSK 7-9
positive (in its effect) / leading to good consequences / virtuous / (medicine) benign (tumor etc)
HSK 7-9
negative / feminine
HSK 7-9
perception / perceptual / sensibility / sensitive / emotional / sentimental
HSK 7-9
nature / innate tendency
HSK 7-9
patience
HSK 7-9
overall character
HSK 7-9
you might as well (do it) / simply / just
HSK 7-9
natural instincts / nature / inherent quality
HSK 7-9
attribute / property
HSK 7-9
(physics) inertia / (fig.) force of habit / tendency to do things in the accustomed way / habitual
HSK 7-9
specific / specificity / idiosyncrasy
highly pathenogenic
symmetry
pseudo-
radioactive
natural disposition
real / the nature of sth
neural / mental / neurological
farsightedness / perspicacity / prescience / forward-looking
(chemistry) activity / active / activated
flexibility
leadership
one's nature / temperament
alkaline
wild nature / unruliness
animacy
associativity (xy)z = x(yz) (math.)
flexibility
linear / linearity
relativistic (physics)
possibility; probability
voluntary
character acquired through long habit / habits and properties
anti-inflammatory (medicine)
biological
tolerance (to heat, acid etc) / resistance
female
medicinal effect
magnetic / magnetism
spiritual nature / spirituality / intelligence (esp. in animals)
to denature / denaturation / to have a sex change / transsexual
acidity
part of speech (noun, verb, adjective etc) / lexical category
strategic
authoritative / (having) authority
mental or spiritual cultivation
brave / staunch / unyielding
male and female / both types (acid and alkaline, positive and negative etc) / (chemistry) amphoteric
program
male
to determine the nature (of sth) / to determine the chemical composition (of a substance) / qualitative
solubility
inert (chemistry) / apathy / inertia / laziness
visible / conspicuous / phanero- / dominant (gene)
willful / headstrong / unruly
swimming ability / characteristics of a body of water (depth, currents etc) / aqueous / water-based (paint etc)
rigid / inflexible / hard (drug)
rigidity
compatibility / mutual harmony
brutal
plasticity
nature / characteristic / moral character
ductility
natural disposition
historic
the spirit or character of a political party
licentious
false positive
moral integrity
(coll.) revolting behavior / CL:
to act naturally, authentically and spontaneously (whether seen as admirable – "bold" – or problematic – "impulsive")
interoperability (of communications equipment)
dualism / two sided / double nature
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)
semantic
same nature / homosexual
memory (ability to retain information)
(chemical, electrical) polarity / polarized
disposition
acquired (i.e. not inborn)
competitive
perception / wits / power of understanding / comprehension
temperament; disposition

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