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habit / custom / usual practice / to be used to / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to learn / to study
HSK 1
to practice / field work / to intern / internship
HSK 2
to review / revision / CL:
HSK 2
to prepare a lesson
HSK 3
to take extra lessons in a cram school or with a private tutor
HSK 6
to practice / exercise / drill / practice / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *习* | 习* | *习
surname Xi
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *习* | 习* | *习
(bound form) to practice / to study / habit / custom
study hard and every day you will improve (idiom)
Papa Xi, nickname for Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平
Xi Jinping (1953–), PRC politician, General Secretary of the CCP from 2012, president of the PRC from 2013
character acquired through long habit / habits and properties
custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
HSK 7-9
(schoolwork) exercise / problem / question
military exercise / war game
custom; practice (usu. a regrettable one)
common saying / idiom
to practice writing characters
variant of 復習|复习
HSK 2
to study / to practice
commonly seen
(military, firefighting etc) (verb and noun) drill; exercise; maneuver
HSK 7-9
(writing, drawing, calligraphy etc) to apply oneself to producing practice pieces / a practice piece; an exercise
customary
intern (student)
to review (a lesson etc)
HSK 7-9
to learn / to acquire (some skill through practice) / acquisition
habit becomes nature (idiom); get used to something and it seems inevitable / second nature / same as 習慣成自然|习惯成自然
research and study
deep learning (artificial intelligence)
accustomed to / used to
cram class / cram school / evening classes
idiom
idiom / idiomatic expression / habitual form of speech (grammar)
bad habit / vice
driving range (golf) / practice court / practice ground
to concentrate on studying hard
habit becomes nature (idiom); get used to something and it seems inevitable / second nature
Xuexi Qiangguo, PRC app designed to teach Xi Jinping Thought, released in 2019
(derog.) bureaucracy / red tape
exercise booklet
Xishui, a county in Zunyi City 遵義市|遵义市, Guizhou
medical intern
Study Times, journal of the Central Party School 中央黨校|中央党校
to learn on the job / to be on probation
to use habitually / usual / conventional
accumulated habits become custom
customary law / common law
exercise book / workbook / CL:
corrupt practice / bad habits / malpractice
old habit (usually bad) / inbred custom / deep-rooted practice
apprentice / probationer / cadet
folk customs
unfamiliar
instructional workshop
acquired / learned
to become accustomed to sth through long practice
to study outside of class time (reviewing one's lessons) / to study in one's free time / individual study
old rules and customs
one's habits change with long custom
anti-Xi (Jinping)
inveterate habit
deeply ingrained / steeped in
(of the wind) blowing gently / abundant / flying
habit becomes nature (idiom); get used to something and it seems inevitable / second nature / same as 習慣成自然|习惯成自然
(psychology) learned helplessness
to lecture / to instruct
old habits are hard to change (idiom)
trainee
medical intern
to practice martial arts
discussion forum / seminar / assembly
country manners; provincialism
to understand profoundly / well-versed / skillful / practiced / to have the knack
associative learning
teaching and learning / to study and impart
custom; practice
(idiom) outmoded conventions; old-fashioned ways
bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
well established / accepted as a result of long usage
old habit / former custom


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