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  *熟* | 熟* | *熟
ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2]
HSK 2
mature; ripe / to mature; to ripen / Taiwan pr. [cheng2shou2]
HSK 3
acquaintance / friend
HSK 3
practiced / proficient / skilled / skillful
HSK 4
to be familiar with; to know well
HSK 5
what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to boil thoroughly / to cook thoroughly
to read and reread sth until one is familiar with it
mature reflection / after careful deliberations
adept / skilled
skillful / proficient
to promote ripening of fruit
to learn by heart; to memorize
lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom) / fig. to do sth routinely and with ease / a walk in the park
cooked food / prepared food / deli food
to be well acquainted with / to know well
precocious; early-maturing
with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect
familiar-looking / to seem familiar
idiom
cultivated land / in Chinese medicine, preparation from rhizome of Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa)
skilled person / an experienced hand
well cooked / to know thoroughly
lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy / a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
frequent visitor
familiar road / beaten track
to cure / to mature
(literary) to be very familiar with (sb or sth); well acquainted with; fully conversant with
Changshu, county-level city in Suzhou 蘇州市|苏州市, Jiangsu
(idiom) to turn a blind eye to (sth one sees regularly)
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently / to know sth inside out / to know sth by heart
careful thought
asleep / sleeping soundly
when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time
wrought iron
to be proficient in
underripe / half-cooked / (fig.) not mastered (of a technique) / clumsy / halting
cooked food (ready to eat)
to know sth fluently / well-versed
familiar words / known Chinese character
ripening in autumn (of crops)
to be well acquainted with
familiar road / well-trodden path
to understand profoundly / well-versed / skillful / practiced / to have the knack
deliberation
stylish and confident middle-aged woman
unripe
(of wine, cheese, beef etc) to age; to mature
half-cooked; (of vegetables) parboiled; (of steak) medium; (of eggs) soft-boiled
to swindle associates, friends or relatives
medium (of steak)
everything is unfamiliar
tree-ripe
to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family
middle-aged man (often with connotations of confidence, success and attractiveness)
to look familiar / familiar-looking
deli; delicatessen
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
skilled worker; journeyman
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
slaked lime / hydrated lime
instant noodles
familiar with one another
sexual maturity
medium rare (of steak)
tree-ripe
abandoned land
unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
meiosis (in sexual reproduction)
plaster of Paris / calcined gypsum
silk raw material (prepared by boiling in soap)
skilled worker; journeyman
rare (of steak)
(idiom) to be familiar with; to have regular dealings with
pasteurized beer
unfamiliar at first but you get used to it / strangers are first meeting, but soon friends / an acquired taste
medium well (of steak)
to know a lot of people
thoroughly cooked; (of steak) well done; (of eggs) hard-boiled
hard-boiled egg
semiskilled
soft-boiled egg
to get familiar with
worked material / chamotte (refractory ceramic material)
to stir-fry ingredients that have been cooked or partially cooked
familiar / close
uncommon meaning of a common word
completely ripe / ripened / well-cooked
familiar road / well-trodden path
familiar
(neologism) middle age; mature age; prime years
lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. / also written 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭
abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now.
to sound familiar / familiar-sounding


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