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


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