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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *更* | 更* | *更
more / even more / further / still / still more
HSK 2
more (than sth else) / even more
HSK 3
to change / to alter / to modify
HSK 6
to replace the old with new / to renew / to renovate / to upgrade / to update / to regenerate
HSK 5
to replace (a worn-out tire etc) / to change (one's address etc)
HSK 5
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *更* | 更* | *更
to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
(idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night
to stop updating (content)
to change clothes / to go to the toilet (euphemism)
even more (so)
HSK 6
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
to rename
reform and renewal / generational change
change room; dressing room; locker room / (euphemism) toilet
HSK 7-9
deep at night
night watchman (in former times)
furthermore (idiom)
even more
to alter
HSK 7-9
to take over (from one another) / to alternate / to replace / to relay
to replace the old with new (idiom)
third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old) / midnight / also pr. [san1 jin1]
to patrol at night, marking the time by sounding clappers or gongs
fourth of the five night watch periods 01:00-03:00 (old)
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
to take it up a notch / to bring it up a level
menopause / andropause
to stay up through the night (idiom)
fifth of the five night watch periods 03:00-05:00 (old)
superior by a notch / a cut above / even better
redbreast / robin
soldier (serving alternate watch)
urban development project
too many to count / very many / innumerable
to correct / to make a correction
in the dead of night (idiom)
one watch (i.e. two-hour period during night)
new edition / new version / update
to alternate / to change
lit. to restring one's bow / to reform and start over again
deep night
(idiom) young and inexperienced; wet behind the ears
(Internet slang) to update one's blog
dental transition (from milk teeth to adult teeth)
international date line
deep at night and all is quiet (idiom)
to change / to substitute
Dickens (name) / Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
Pleistocene (geological epoch from 2m years ago, covering the most recent ice ages)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better
to make a new start / to regenerate
drum marking night watches / night watchman's clapper
to change / to replace / to alter
dynamic update (Internet)
I am who I am and not ashamed of it; to be proud of one's name and stand by one's actions
to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)
watch tower / drum tower marking night watches
(slang) (of a follower) to urge (a blogger etc) to post some fresh content (abbr. for 催促更新)
to keep watch during the night
Huygens (name) / Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), Dutch mathematician and astronomer
to be even better than / to be superior to
second of the five night watch periods 21:00-23:00 (old)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist
to moonlight
(in the spring) nature takes on a new look (idiom)
high performance
water clock used to mark night watches
substitution / replacing former general / change of leader
resurrection / rebirth / reinvigorated / rejuvenated / a new lease of life
alternately / by turns


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