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HSK
humanity / human race / mankind
HSK 3
same type / category 1 (i.e. class A)
mammals / also written 哺乳動物|哺乳动物
offbeat / alternative / avant-garde / unconventional / weird
animals
and so on / and such
HSK 6
this kind / these kinds / such
meat
kind / genus / type / category / variety / species / sort / class
HSK 4
soup dishes (on menu)
classification of animals
class Amphibia / amphibians
centipedes and millipedes
inhuman
birds
to classify
HSK 5
main type / main class / main category
fishes
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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)
carnivorous species
ancient human species such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis
moth (family)
(zoology) bivalve
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
to classify / to categorize
cereal / grain
similar / same type / alike
HSK 7-9
(botany) fern; bracken; brake
finch (family Fringillidae)
different kind (sometimes with a connotation of strangeness or eccentricity)
scum of a community / degenerate
ball sports
arachnid
all categories
insects
primate (monkey, hominid etc)
knives / cutlery
category / division
Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates, such as horses, zebras etc)
reptiles / also written 爬行動物|爬行动物
crustacean
category 5 / CAT 5 (cable)
to assess and classify
new generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
bird species / birds
fungus
semantic categorization
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)
dinosaurs
(zoology) marsupial
a living being (esp. human)
activated oxygen species (AOS)
(coll.) inkfish; octopus, squid and cuttlefish
(biology) class Amphibia
similar
algae
clan / race
dinosaur ancestors of birds
Shenglei, the earliest Chinese rime dictionary with 11,520 single-character entries, released in 3rd century (was not preserved to this day)
(idiom) to organize by categories; to classify
villain / evil person
(math.) congruence class; residue class
this kind (of)
butterfly (family)
cartilaginous fishes / Chondrichthyes (taxonomic class including sharks and rays)
rodents
domestic animal
bean
lancelet (Branchiostoma)
Diplopoda (arthropod class with a pair of legs on each segment, including centipedes and millipedes)
characteristic class (math.)
category / kind / class
reptiles / also written 爬行類|爬行类
subtype / subclass
a civet (arboreal cat) / viverrid (mammal group including mongoose and civet)
(chemistry) aldehyde
carbohydrate
the "five black categories" (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. landlords, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
to call up all one's associates / rent-a-crowd
bast fiber plant (general term for hemp, flax, jute, ramie etc)
rice dishes (on menu)
thecodont (type of reptile that existed in the Permian and Triassic Periods)


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