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a benefactor / a person who has significantly helped sb else
HSK 6
favor / grace
HSK 7-9
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
to be grateful
HSK 7-9
salvation
kindness / affection / grace / favor
HSK 7-9
to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)
gratitude and grudges / resentment / grudges / grievances
HSK 7-9
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  *恩* | 恩* | *恩
favor; grace; kindness / (coll.) used like in online chat, expressing agreement
debt of gratitude coupled with duty to avenge
to bestow (favors, charity etc)
HSK 7-9
(maxim) a mere "thank you" is an insufficient response to a huge favor / (expression of gratitude) words cannot express my appreciation for what you have done
Charismatic Movement
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
grateful and seeking to repay the kindness (idiom)
feelings of gratitude and loyalty
benevolence / favor
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
Saving Private Ryan (1998 movie)
to give a favor (used of Christian God)
Bern or Berne, capital of Switzerland (Tw)
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), socialist philosopher and one of the founder of Marxism
rich favor
deeply grateful
Thanksgiving Day
abbr. for Marx 馬克思|马克思, Engels 恩格斯, Lenin 列寧|列宁 and Stalin 斯大林
Burns (name) / Nicholas Burns (1956-), US ambassador to China 2022-
loving affection (in a couple) / conjugal love
favor from an emperor or high official
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省
N'Djamena, capital of Chad
favor / grace
to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom)
to split up / to break all ties
to make a public display of affection
(name) Keynes / John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), influential British economist / Cairns, city in Queensland, Australia
Enshi, a county-level city in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), Los Angeles Lakers NBA star
Sean, Shaun or Shawn (name)
lit. the kindness of recognizing sb's worth and employing him (idiom) / patronage / protection
approved by His (or Her) Majesty / permission graciously granted (from highly authoritative position) / to graciously permit / to condescend to allow
(idiom) a great life-saving favor
Charismatic Christianity
benefactor
University of Bonn
Browne (person name)
to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend / to kick a benefactor in the teeth
to extend kindness
to confer a favor on sb / to confer a benefit
to pay a debt of gratitude / to repay a kindness
ungrateful
Kahn
Enshi county in southwest Hubei
TNT equivalent
Pitcairn Islands
harsh and merciless (idiom)
Enschede, city in the Netherlands
to be as kind and benevolent as heaven (idiom)
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
to show kindness
bestowed kindness
Engel (name) / Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician
Cohen (name)
Xuan'en, a county in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
to receive favor
special favor from a ruler / Emperor's generosity towards a favorite
Steinkjær (city in Trøndelag, Norway)
Stern (name)
Gideon (name, from Judges 6:11 onward) / also written 基甸
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
Ursula von der Leyen (1958-), German politician, president of the European Commission from 2019
Orion (NASA spacecraft)
(name) Ryan
Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990
rune
plan of salvation
imperial kindness / benevolence from the emperor
(greatly respected) teacher
Krohn's disease
Rennes
Daci'en Buddhist temple in Xi'an
(name) Kenyon; Canyon
Brian (name)
Lucerne (city in Switzerland)
Yaounde, capital of Cameroon
Bournemouth, UK
Enping, a county-level city in Jiangmen City 江門市|江门市, Guangdong
kind patronage
Gene (name)
McCain (name) / John McCain (1936-2018), US Republican politician, Senator for Arizona 1987-2018
TNT (trinitrotoluene) (loanword)
to disobey one's benefactor / to violate debts of gratitude / to repay good with evil
Jaén, Spain
Venn diagram
(Dirk) Kempthorne (US Senator from Idaho)

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