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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
nature / the natural world
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
heaven
industry
critical / boundary
the press / journalistic circles / the journalists
superkingdom (taxonomy)
the world of material desires (Buddhism)
national boundary; border between countries
ghost world
Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss or Sukhavati (Sanskrit)
all walks of life; all social circles
foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
media industry
world of the immortals; a fairyland; a paradise
to cross a border / to overstep a bound
academic world / academic circles / academia
the entertainment world; show business
lower bound (math.) / world of mortals / (of gods) to descend to the world of mortals
New Territories (in Hong Kong)
to cross a border / (sport) to go out of bounds
(idiom) to broaden one's horizons greatly
political and government circles
(biogeography) the Afrotropical realm
paradise (mainly Buddhist) / Elysium / (Budd.) Sukhavati
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
First World
(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")
the teeming world / the world of sensual pleasures
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
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
shallow / not thorough / superficial
Brave New World, novel by Aldous Huxley 阿道司·赫胥黎
to demarcate a boundary / dividing line
animal kingdom
microcosm / the microscopic world
supercritical
upper bound
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)
(biology) the biological world; the realm of living organisms
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
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
(biogeography) the Afrotropical realm (formerly, the Ethiopian Zone)
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
territory occupied by aborigines in Taiwan (old)

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