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a benefactor / a person who has significantly helped sb else
HSK 6
to be grateful
HSK 7-9
favor / grace
HSK 7-9
kindness / affection / grace / favor
HSK 7-9
gratitude and grudges / resentment / grudges / grievances
HSK 7-9
to bestow (favors, charity etc)
HSK 7-9
Xuan'en County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
to thank sb for favor (esp. emperor or superior official)
Engel (name) / Ernst Engel (1821-1896), German statistician
kind patronage
Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990
Thanksgiving Day
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *恩* | 恩* | *恩
favor / grace / kindness
University of Bonn
Dunkin' Donuts
Rennes
Saving Private Ryan (1998 movie)
favor / grace
Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), Los Angeles Lakers NBA star
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), socialist philosopher and one of the founder of Marxism
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
favor from an emperor or high official
to be ungrateful
Bournemouth, UK
(name) Keynes / John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), influential British economist / Cairns, city in Queensland, Australia
Enschede, city in the Netherlands
to confer a favor on sb / to confer a benefit
Cohen (name)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *恩* | 恩* | *恩
variant of
debt of gratitude coupled with duty to avenge
special favor from a ruler / Emperor's generosity towards a favorite
to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend / to kick a benefactor in the teeth
Sean, Shaun or Shawn (name)
rune
loving affection (in a couple) / conjugal love
(greatly respected) teacher
bestowed kindness
Brian (name)
Gene (name)
to give a favor (used of Christian God)
Xuan'en County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei
Jaén, Spain
deeply grateful
benevolence / favor
imperial kindness / benevolence from the emperor
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
Stern (name)
Lucerne (city in Switzerland)
benefactor
grateful and seeking to repay the kindness (idiom)
feelings of gratitude and loyalty
lit. the kindness of recognizing sb's worth and employing him (idiom) / patronage / protection
plan of salvation
your favor amounts to being given a new lease on life (idiom)
TNT (trinitrotoluene) (loanword)
Steinkjær (city in Trøndelag, Norway)
(name) Ryan
to make a public display of affection
Thun, Switzerland
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
Ron (name)
Charismatic Christianity
Browne (person name)
Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976
Gideon (name, from Judges 6:11 onward) / also written 基甸
(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
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom)
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省
harsh and merciless (idiom)
to pay a debt of gratitude / to repay a kindness
to receive favor
rich favor
Bern or Berne, capital of Switzerland (Tw)
Orion (NASA spacecraft)
Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
Enshi county in southwest Hubei
to be as kind and benevolent as heaven (idiom)
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
to extend kindness
salvation
Burns (name) / Nicholas Burns (1956-), US ambassador to China 2022-
(name) Kenyon; Canyon
Kahn
Daci'en Buddhist temple in Xi'an
Kongsvinger (city in Hedemark, Norway)
(coll.) (loanword) VPN
pension granted as a favor
approved by His (or Her) Majesty / permission graciously granted (from highly authoritative position) / to graciously permit / to condescend to allow
to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)
Enping, a county-level city in Jiangmen City 江門市|江门市, Guangdong
to split up / to break all ties
Enshi prefecture-level city in Hubei, capital of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州
N'Djamena, capital of Chad
TNT equivalent

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