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HSK
world / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
the outside world / external
HSK 5
worldwide / entire world
HSK 5
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  *界* | 界* | *界
(bound form) boundary; border / (bound form) realm
HSK 6
boundary / border
HSK 7-9
boundary / state / realm
HSK 7-9
common boundary / common border
HSK 7-9
(lit. and fig.) field of vision; scope; horizon
HSK 7-9
industry / the world of business
HSK 7-9
nature / the natural world
HSK 7-9
industry
critical / boundary
ghost world
the teeming world / the world of sensual pleasures
all walks of life; all social circles
national boundary; border between countries
Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss or Sukhavati (Sanskrit)
upper bound
foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
world of the immortals; a fairyland; a paradise
New Territories (in Hong Kong)
to cross a border / to overstep a bound
academic world / academic circles / academia
paradise (mainly Buddhist) / Elysium / (Budd.) Sukhavati
lower bound (math.) / world of mortals / (of gods) to descend to the world of mortals
to cross a border / (sport) to go out of bounds
(idiom) to broaden one's horizons greatly
political and government circles
provincial boundary
great wide world / marvelously diverse world / (Buddhism) cosmos (abbr. for 三千大千世界)
border / boundary
an interface / to relate with / to affiliate
the press / journalistic circles / the journalists
(Buddhism) to designate the boundaries of a sacred place within which monks are to be trained; a place so designated / (fantasy fiction) force field; invisible barrier (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 結界 "kekkai")
World of Warcraft (video game)
spiritual world
to go beyond the border; to be transboundary / (fig.) to transition to a new field of endeavor; to be interdisciplinary
heaven
county border; county line
bounded
academic circles / academia
academic world / academic circles / academia
subkingdom (taxonomy)
extent of one's rights / limits of one's authority
Brave New World, novel by Aldous Huxley 阿道司·赫胥黎
First World
to demarcate a boundary / dividing line
animal kingdom
microcosm / the microscopic world
supercritical
to travel around the world
lit. the river that divides Chu and Han / fig. a line that divides rival territories / the mid-line between sides on a Chinese chessboard
Kingdom Plantae (biology)
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
(one's) inner world
world of science / scientific circles
Minecraft (video game)
biosphere / natural world
to broaden one's horizons
sports circles / the sporting world
cosmos (Buddhism)
demarcation / boundary / delimited / bound (math.)
Third World
(math.) infimum; greatest lower bound
event horizon
shallow / not thorough / superficial
macrocosm / the world in the large
media / commentators
Kingdom Monera / prokaryote
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果
Indomalayan realm
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
banking circles / the world of finance
subcritical
Palearctic realm
everywhere / across the world
without borders (used for organizations such as Médecins sans Frontières)
famous throughout the world
supremum (math.) / least upper bound
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple) / romantic couple's world
boundary survey
Antarctic realm
business world / business community
Ethiopian Zone, aka Afrotropical realm
the entertainment world; show business
media industry
the objective world (as opposed to empirical observation)
state border; state line
lower boundary
determination of cadastral parcel boundaries
Nearctic realm
Neotropic (ecozone)
the press / the media
the entertainment world; show business
Australasian realm
the world of material desires (Buddhism)
territory occupied by aborigines in Taiwan (old)
intellectual circles / intelligentsia
economic circles

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