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| | English (language) | HSK 2 |
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| | word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression | HSK 2 |
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| | colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL: 門|门 | HSK 4 |
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| | Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條|条, 本, 句 | HSK 5 |
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| | Chinese language | HSK 5 |
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| | words / speech / (spoken) language | HSK 5 |
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| | Japanese language | HSK 6 |
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| | (idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize | HSK 6 |
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| | French (language) | HSK 6 |
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| | Spanish language | HSK 6 |
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| | Arabic (language) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | | HSK 7-9 |
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| | common saying / proverb / colloquial speech | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words / speech / utterance / discourse | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Russian (language) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | cheers and laughter | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Manchurian language | |
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| | dialect / language / speech | |
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| | (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know | |
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| | bilingual | |
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| | western language / Spanish (language) | |
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| | honorific (e.g. in grammar of oriental languages) | |
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| | phrase (grammar) | |
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| | Indonesian language | |
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| | flowery writing / writing concerning love and sex | |
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| | Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC | |
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| | epistolary formula used at the head of a letter | |
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| | to give an earnest message of good wishes, encouragement, or advice etc; a message of this sort | |
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| | target language (for translation) | |
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| | proverb | |
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| | Vietnamese language, Tiếng Việt | |
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| | to speak / to tell | |
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| | concluding remarks | |
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| | idle gossip / irrelevant nonsense / slanderous rumor | |
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| | monogatari / epic narrative (Japanese literary form) | |
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| | incantation / spell / enchantment / curse | |
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| | Thai (language) | |
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| | (grammatical) predicate | |
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| | preamble / introduction / (journalism) lede / lead paragraph | |
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| | adverbial adjunct (adverb or adverbial clause) | |
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| | Korean language (esp. in context of South Korea) | |
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| | choice of words / wording / phraseology / term | |
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| | to discuss in whispered tones / whispered conversation | |
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| | common saying / idiom | |
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| | slang | |
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| | German (language) | |
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| | attributive (modifier) | |
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| | code word; coded language / to communicate in private | |
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| | lit. to speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y) | |
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| | native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language | |
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| | mutter | |
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| | talking and laughing / cheerful talk | |
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| | object (grammar) | |
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| | graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words / cheating wheedling / dishonest rhetoric | |
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| | babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch | |
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| | subject (in grammar) | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | (idiom) to whisper | |
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| | rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip / lies and slanders | |
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| | Tibetan language | |
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| | Korean language | |
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| | anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part) | |
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| | (idiom) sweet words / sweet talk / cajolery | |
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| | witticism | |
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| | to let slip / loss of speech (e.g. as a result of brain damage); aphasia | |
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| | to talk to oneself | |
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| | quotation | |
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| | code word | |
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| | evil words / malicious talk | |
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| | sign language | |
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| | Cantonese language | |
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| | Mongolian (language) | |
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| | criticism / commentary | |
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| | Wu dialects (spoken primarily in Shanghai and surrounding areas) | |
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| | Sanskrit (language) | |
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| | Indonesian language | |
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| | (idiom) just a word or two; a few isolated phrases | |
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| | to mumble to oneself | |
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| | to tell lies; to talk nonsense / lies; nonsense | |
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| | term / terminology | |
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| | idiom | |
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| | sarcastic comments (idiom) / to make sarcastic comments | |
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| | bold, visionary words | |
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| | to chatter incessantly | |
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| | dialect / patois | |
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| | to chat with a low voice | |
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| | Portuguese (language) | |
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| | prophecy; prophetic remark | |
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| | sincere, well-meant, kind words | |
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| | note / comment | |
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| | a lie; a falsehood | |
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| | flag signals (for communicating between ships or army units); semaphore | |
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| | Taiwanese Hokkien (aka Taiwanese Minnan, or simply Taiwanese) | |
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| | to speak softly | |
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| | thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop | |
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