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Chinese language
HSK 1
English (language)
HSK 2
text / CL:
HSK 1
to write an essay / composition (student essay) / CL:
HSK 2
astronomy
HSK 5
foreign language (written)
HSK 3
(broadly) prose (as opposed to verse) / (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
HSK 7-9
a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
paper / treatise / thesis / CL: / to discuss a paper or thesis (old)
HSK 4
(textual) context
tweet (on Twitter) / (HK, Tw) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile / to reply to original poster (or recommend a post) on PTT bulletin board
humanities / human affairs / culture
HSK 7-9
old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
online literature, esp. web novels (abbr. for 網絡文學|网络文学)
Malay language
entire text / full text
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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surname Wen
Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
quotation / citation
context / the surrounding words / same as 上下文
applied writing / writing for practical purposes (business letters, advertising etc)
original text
hydrology
Jiang Wen (1963-), sixth generation Chinese movie director
official document
clause / explanatory section in a document
this text / article / the main body of a book
French language
poetry and literature
speech delivered by a head of state to the legislature (e.g. (USA) State of the Union Address, (Russia) Address to the Federal Assembly etc)
literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
to solicit articles, essays or pieces of literature (on a subject or in commemoration of an event)
German (language)
Shen Congwen (1902-1988), novelist
Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language
dissertation; thesis
short piece; article; short essay
incantation / spell / to curse
the pages ahead / the following pages
highly literate / lit. capable at poetry, proficient at prose
Tsai Ing-wen (1956–), Taiwanese DPP politician, president of the Republic of China 2016–2024
Sanskrit
blog article / to write a blog article (netspeak)
hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet
Vietnamese written language / Vietnamese literature
preceding part of the text
Chinese language / Chinese script
Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson) / Kelvin (temperature scale)
unwritten (rule)
a single penny / a single cent
scripture / scriptures / CL:
Ban Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general 2007-2016
to issue a document / document issued by an authority / outgoing messages / (Internet) to post an article online
palindrome
Portuguese (language)
advertorial
eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties
to write an article
Longman (name)
Calvin (1509-1564), French protestant reformer
Kevin (name)
Indo-European (language)
Latin (language)
to state in writing (laws, rules etc)
interpreting words / to explain the meaning of words in classic texts / to decipher an old script
inscription in bronze / bell-cauldron inscription
Richmond (place name or surname)
Thai (language)
Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times)
a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British biologist, author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源 / Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia)
Evan / Avon / Ivan
refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle
(old) official communication (between government offices of equal rank) / report delivered by the head of government on affairs of state
oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
writings in the vernacular
crude and ill-educated (idiom)
writing style (formal) / to send an official written communication
hacker terminology / leetspeak
Chinese written language / Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad
Xingwen county in Yibin 宜賓|宜宾, Sichuan
essay
the original name of 孫中山|孙中山, Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党
(social media) to post; a post
Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC) / the Syriac script
remarkable or peculiar piece of writing
funeral oration / eulogy / elegiac address
genteel
paired phrases (poetic device)
Greek literature
translated text
(idiom) penniless; completely broke
Former Han dynasty study or rewriting of classical texts such as the Confucian six classics 六經|六经
Manchurian written language
Classical Chinese writing
luminous style
see 轉文|转文 (Tw)

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