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schoolgirl / female student / girl
HSK 1
doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
HSK 1
birthday / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
student / schoolchild
HSK 1
to fall ill
HSK 1
to get angry; to be furious / vitality; liveliness
HSK 1
university student / college student
HSK 1
middle-school student / high school student
HSK 1
primary school student / schoolchild / CL: 個|个, / (fig.) beginner
HSK 1
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to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
all one's life; throughout one's life
HSK 2
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
HSK 2
to be born
HSK 2
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
new word (in textbook) / word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied / CL: 組|组, 個|个
HSK 2
to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child
HSK 3
to arise; to come into being; to come about / to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
HSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
HSK 3
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
to exist / to survive
HSK 3
hygienic; sanitary / hygiene; sanitation
HSK 3
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
(of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
HSK 3
business / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 3
bathroom / toilet / WC / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
graduate student / postgraduate student / research student
HSK 4
graduate
HSK 4
to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being / to be born with; to be blessed with
HSK 5
to enroll new students / to get students
HSK 5
vitamin
HSK 6
to be born
HSK 6
teachers and students
HSK 6
peanut / CL:
HSK 6
wild / undomesticated
HSK 6
to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration
HSK 6
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to maintain good health / to raise a child or animal / curing (of concrete etc)
HSK 7-9
to take effect / to go into effect
HSK 7-9
to fear / afraid / extremely nervous / for fear that / to avoid / so as not to
HSK 7-9
life or death
HSK 7-9
life (a person's whole life) / in one's entire life
HSK 7-9
new / newborn / emerging / nascent / rebirth / regeneration / new life / new student
HSK 7-9
nature / disposition / innate / natural
HSK 7-9
physiology
HSK 7-9
ecology
HSK 7-9
strange; unfamiliar
HSK 7-9
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
to give rise to / to derive / derivative / derivation
HSK 7-9
to give birth to; to bear / fertility
HSK 7-9
to flee for one's life
HSK 7-9
opportunity to live; hope of success / vigor; vitality
HSK 7-9
to seek one's livelihood / to work to support oneself / to earn a living
HSK 7-9
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
HSK 7-9
to die / to lose one's life
HSK 7-9
stiff / harsh
HSK 7-9
to do business
HSK 7-9
antibiotic
HSK 7-9
lifeline
HSK 7-9
career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life
HSK 7-9
(adj.) twin
HSK 7-9
(of a deceased) during one's life / while living
HSK 7-9
throughout one's life / lifetime; lifelong
HSK 7-9
stranger
biochemistry
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
birth rate
original / primary / native / indigenous / proto- / stock (firmware)
to talk cheerfully and wittily / to joke together
to seek survival / to possess the will to live
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case
alternate leaf arrangement (botany)
stiff / rigid / inflexible / forcibly
one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支 / animal from the Chinese zodiac
long life
fresh troops / (fig.) lifeblood / new force
symbiosis
estranged
to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery
fresh ginger
this life
biochemistry
(medicine) hyperplasia / (abbr. for 增廣生員|增广生员) a scholar studying for the Ming dynasty imperial examinations who did not make the quota for support in the form of a monthly allowance of rice that students who made the quota received
aquatic (plant, animal)
to be reborn / rebirth
twin (attributive) / twins
to reproduce / to flourish
(of metal) to rust; to become rusty / (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate
Epson, Japanese electronics company
to sketch from nature / to do a still life drawing
the remaining years of one's life / survival (after a disaster)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
reincarnation (Buddhism)
people's livelihood / people's welfare
half a lifetime
to pressure a younger relative to hurry up and have a baby / (obstetrics) to induce labor / to expedite childbirth / (fig.) to be a driving force in bringing sth into existence

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