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HSK
type; kind; category / (computer programming) type
HSK 4
humanity / human race / mankind
HSK 3
and so on / and such
HSK 6
similar; analogous
HSK 3
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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
flavonoid (chemistry)
(linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category
new generation of youths (generation X, Y etc)
Human Genome Project
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)
(chemistry) phenol
category
(botany) fern; bracken; brake
anthropology
toxoid
thesaurus
origin of mankind
reptiles / also written 爬行動物|爬行动物
to excel the common (idiom); surpassing / preeminent / outstanding
similar / same type / alike
HSK 7-9
human papillomavirus (HPV)
steroid
anthropologist
knives / cutlery
class A protected animal
fungus
organoid (regenerative medicine)
subtype / subclass
and so on / in a similar fashion
fishes
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
to comprehend (new things) by analogy
Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates, such as pigs, cows, giraffes etc)
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Jovian planet
carnivorous species
activated oxygen species (AOS)
arachnid
animals
carbohydrate
classification of animals
mammals
to classify / to categorize
soup dishes (on menu)
similar things come together (idiom); like draws like / Birds of a feather flock together.
insects
semantic categorization
out of place / inappropriate / incongruous
(biology) class Amphibia
a ledger / a spreadsheet
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
different kind (sometimes with a connotation of strangeness or eccentricity)
China Ornithological Society
ball sports
villain / evil person
quasar
Similar things group together, similar people fit together (idiom); Birds of a feather flock together.
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
cannibalism
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)
classification theory
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
crimes against humanity
anabolic steroids
to call up all one's associates / rent-a-crowd
this kind / these kinds / such
meat
mineralocorticoid (e.g. aldosterone)
alternative medicine
corticosteroid
to reason by analogy
rice dishes (on menu)
domestic animal
characteristic class (math.)
dinosaur ancestors of birds
category / kind / class
terrestrial planet
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)
dinosaurs
scum of a community / degenerate
bird species / birds
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
paleoanthropology
Like attracts like.

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