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HSK
secrets / private business / privacy
HSK 6
to smuggle / to have an illicit affair
HSK 6
selfish / selfishness
HSK 7-9
selfless / impartial
HSK 7-9
selfless / unselfish / disinterested / altruistic
HSK 7-9
intimate matters
public and private (interests, initiative etc)
to suppress smugglers / to search for smuggled goods
strictly impartial and incorruptible (idiom)
official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
to practice favoritism
(idiom) to form a clique for self-serving purposes
to gain from corrupt dealing / to engage in graft / to feather one's nest
(Tw) to withhold (knowledge, resources etc) out of reluctance to share
for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically / selfless
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *私* | 私* | *私
personal / private / selfish
to traffic (smuggled goods) / illegal trading
shameful secret
to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom); personal profit at public expense / venal and selfish behavior
to oppose smuggling / anti-contraband (measures, policy etc)
private (i.e. not work-related 因公)
to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)
personal privacy; private matters
family property / family wealth


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