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humanity / human race / mankind
HSK 3
Human Genome Project
same type / category 1 (i.e. class A)
to reason by analogy
and so on / in a similar fashion
mammals / also written 哺乳動物|哺乳动物
offbeat / alternative / avant-garde / unconventional / weird
anthropology
class A protected animal
animals
resemblance
and so on / and such
HSK 6
this kind / these kinds / such
meat
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
taxonomy / taxology / systematics
kind / genus / type / category / variety / species / sort / class
HSK 4
origin of mankind
soup dishes (on menu)
classification of animals
class Amphibia / amphibians
centipedes and millipedes
mammals
similar; analogous
HSK 3
inhuman
anthropologist
birds
to classify
HSK 5
crimes against humanity
main type / main class / main category
fishes
Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together.
to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
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  *类* | 类* | *类
kind; type; class; category / (classifier) kind; type / (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
HSK 3
Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates, such as pigs, cows, giraffes etc)
out of place / inappropriate / incongruous
category / kind
sugar (chemistry)
analogy / (Tw) (electronics) analog
carnivorous species
ancient human species such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis
moth (family)
to comprehend (new things) by analogy
(zoology) bivalve
thesaurus
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
education for everyone, irrespective of background
shellfish / mollusks
(linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category
similar things come together (idiom); like draws like / Birds of a feather flock together.
to classify / to categorize
cereal / grain
to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
similar / same type / alike
HSK 7-9
to excel the common (idiom); surpassing / preeminent / outstanding
(botany) fern; bracken; brake
finch (family Fringillidae)
Jovian planet
different kind (sometimes with a connotation of strangeness or eccentricity)
rheumatoid factor
paleoanthropology
scum of a community / degenerate
metalloid (chemistry)
ball sports
arachnid
reference book consisting of material quoted from many sources, arranged by category (about 600 of which were compiled between the 3rd and 18th centuries in China)
all categories
insects
primate (monkey, hominid etc)
knives / cutlery
cannibalism
category / division
alternative medicine
classification theory
Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates, such as horses, zebras etc)
No Child Left Behind Act, USA 2001
reptiles / also written 爬行動物|爬行动物
crustacean
category 5 / CAT 5 (cable)
to assess and classify
a ledger / a spreadsheet
new generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
bird species / birds
fungus
semantic categorization
thesaurus
human papillomavirus (HPV)
hammered string type (of musical instrument)
organophosphate
things like this (idiom); and so on / and the rest / etc
HSK 7-9
noodle dishes (on menu)
Like attracts like.
dinosaurs
toxoid
Leipian, Chinese character dictionary with 31,319 entries, compiled by Sima Guang 司馬光|司马光 et al in 11th century
(zoology) marsupial
a living being (esp. human)
carbamate
activated oxygen species (AOS)

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