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birthday / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
student / schoolchild
HSK 1
doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
to get angry; to be furious / vitality; liveliness
HSK 1
primary school student / schoolchild / CL: 個|个, / (fig.) beginner
HSK 1
university student; college student
HSK 1
schoolgirl / female student / girl
HSK 1
middle-school student / high school student
HSK 1
schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
HSK 1
to fall ill
HSK 1
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to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student
HSK 2
new word (in textbook) / word that is unfamiliar or not yet studied / CL: 組|组, 個|个
HSK 2
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
all one's life; throughout one's life
HSK 2
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
exam candidate / student whose name has been put forward for an exam
HSK 2
to be born
HSK 2
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
to exist / to survive
HSK 3
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
HSK 3
to produce; to manufacture / to give birth to a child
HSK 3
to grow / to grow up / to be brought up
HSK 3
hygienic; sanitary / hygiene; sanitation
HSK 3
business / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 3
(of descriptions, writing etc) vivid; lively
HSK 3
bathroom / toilet / WC / CL: 間|间
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
graduate
HSK 4
graduate student / postgraduate student / research student
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
peanut / CL:
HSK 6
teachers and students
HSK 6
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
wild / undomesticated
HSK 6
vitamin
HSK 6
to be reborn / to regenerate / to be a second so-and-so (famous dead person) / recycling / regeneration
HSK 6
to be born
HSK 6
antibiotic
HSK 7-9
lifeline
HSK 7-9
to flee for one's life
HSK 7-9
opportunity to live; hope of success / vigor; vitality
HSK 7-9
new / newborn / emerging / nascent / rebirth / regeneration / new life / new student
HSK 7-9
to maintain good health / to raise a child or animal / curing (of concrete etc)
HSK 7-9
strange; unfamiliar
HSK 7-9
life or death
HSK 7-9
(of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative
HSK 7-9
ecology (the study of interactions between organisms and their environment) / ecological state (the condition or health of a natural environment) / (fig.) ecosystem (a complex network, e.g. in tech, business or media, as in 數字生態|数字生态 "digital ecosystem")
HSK 7-9
to give birth to; to bear / fertility
HSK 7-9
to do business
HSK 7-9
nature / disposition / innate / natural
HSK 7-9
career / life (way in which sb lives) / period of one's life
HSK 7-9
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
HSK 7-9
to fear / afraid / extremely nervous / for fear that / to avoid / so as not to
HSK 7-9
(of a deceased) during one's life / while living
HSK 7-9
throughout one's life / lifetime; lifelong
HSK 7-9
physiology
HSK 7-9
to give rise to / to derive / derivative / derivation
HSK 7-9
regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance
HSK 7-9
organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to die / to lose one's life
HSK 7-9
stiff / harsh
HSK 7-9
(adj.) twin
HSK 7-9
life (a person's whole life) / in one's entire life
HSK 7-9
to seek one's livelihood / to work to support oneself / to earn a living
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
HSK 7-9
parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization)
lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom)
habitat
human life as the morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
to bear humiliation to save one's skin (idiom)
metazoa / the animal kingdom
from birth / by one's nature
biochemistry
derivative / secondary / sub-
couple who were made for each other
birthday card
people's livelihood / people's welfare
to make a fire; to light a fire
auxin (plant growth hormone)
alkaloid
reclaimed water; recycled water
to be reborn / to live in paradise (Buddhism) / to die / (after) one's death
PhD student; doctoral candidate
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless
tampon
(area where) vegetation grows / the common people
Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters) / sb who keeps to their word no matter what
sliced raw fish
way of life / lifestyle
(Tw) student affairs (school office handling discipline and student counseling) (abbr. for 生活教育)
microbiologist
fertility
favorite pupil
parazoan (animal of the subkingdom Parazoa, mostly sponges)
biological weapon
(Cantonese) (of a woman) to direct a coquettish look, comment or gesture at a guy
neurobiology

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