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nausea / to feel sick / disgust / nauseating / to embarrass (deliberately)
HSK 4
crime / evil / sin
HSK 6
malice / evil intention
HSK 7-9
sinister / vicious / wicked / evil
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *惡* | 惡* | *惡
evil / fierce / vicious / ugly / coarse / to harm
HSK 7-9
vile / nasty / of very poor quality
HSK 7-9
to worsen
HSK 7-9
repulsive / vile / hateful / abominable
HSK 7-9
fierce / ferocious / fiendish / frightening
HSK 7-9
ugly / repulsive
HSK 7-9
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
variant of 兇惡|凶恶, fierce / ferocious / fiendish / frightening
HSK 7-9
malignant / wicked / vicious (circle) / producing evil / rapid (decline) / runaway (inflation)
HSK 7-9
unlucky star (evil portent in astrology)
evil or wicked conduct
to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice / you get what's coming to you
overbearing fiend
doing good is like a hard climb, doing evil is like an easy fall (idiom)
demon / fiend
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *惡* | 惡* | *惡
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *惡* | 惡* | *惡
to hate / to loathe / ashamed / to fear / to slander
practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke
malice / ill will
(medicine) lochia
malicious deed; misdeed / disaster; catastrophe
malicious
evil person; vile creature; villain / (archaic) ugly person
nightmare
malignant tumor
to hate one another
to loathe / to abhor / hatred / revulsion
evil behavior (idiom); brazen villainy
feeling of guilt
everything that is evil
stink; stench / stinky; smelly / (fig.) disgusting; repugnant
"human nature is evil", theory advocated by Xunzi 荀子
evil tyrant
to do evil
to hate evil
to loathe; to detest; to abhor
hard fighting / fierce battle
infamous / notorious
young thug / malicious young ruffian
hard fighting / fierce battle
(idiom) fiends; devils; monsters
guilty of terrible crimes (idiom) / reprehensible
lit. likes and dislikes / preferences / taste
bad habit / vice
hoodlum / bad guy
to overdose on supplementary medicine / to cram too hard
to detest bitterly (idiom) / implacable hatred / to abhor / anathema
vicious circle
fiendish / black-hearted
the guilty party files the suit / the thief cries thief
demon / fiend
evil words / malicious talk
dangerous / sinister / vicious
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom) / fig. inhospitable natural environment
to eradicate evil completely (idiom); thorough in rooting out wickedness
evil tongue / malicious talk
(idiom) to have committed heinous crimes
sinister look
violent wave / fierce billow / fig. depraved force
unpleasant ailment / foul disease
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
to detest / to abhor
accumulated evil
evil smell / resentment / unpleasant manner
lit. strung through and filled with evil (idiom); filled with extreme evil / replete with vice / guilty of monstrous crimes
(idiom) to hate evil as one hates an enemy
to become enemies; to become hostile towards each other
do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
filthy / foul
to have sinister motives
evil consequence / retribution (in Buddhism)
bad habit / evil custom / vulgarity
turn away from evil and follow virtue
bad habit
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
to distinguish good and evil (idiom); to uphold virtue and condemn evil / to praise good and expose vice
lit. to eat one's own bitter fruit (idiom) / fig. to suffer the consequences of one's own actions / to stew in one's own juice
(idiom) to highlight sb's good points but omit to mention their faults
retribution
lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too / an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom)
(idiom) to slander viciously
evil spirit / devil
evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire
arch-criminal and archenemy (idiom)
virtue has its reward, evil its retribution
lean year / year of bad harvest
variant of 厄運|厄运
a rich young bully of old Shanghai
Accumulated evil will be repaid in suffering (idiom).
Cachexia (physical wasting associated with long-term illness)
vicious wife
malignant deity / fiend
very fierce
hyperinflation

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