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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *从* | 从* | *从
from; through; via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
HSK 1
from childhood; from a young age
HSK 2
always / at all times / never (if used in negative sentence)
HSK 3
previously / formerly / once upon a time
HSK 3
from now on / since then / henceforth
HSK 4
never
HSK 6
from within / therefrom
HSK 5
to go for / to engage in / to undertake / to deal with / to handle / to do
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *从* | 从* | *从
variant of 從|从
HSK 1
from now on / henceforward
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *从* | 从* | *从
surname Cong
employee / person employed in a trade or profession
never
HSK 7-9
never (in the past) / never did
HSK 6
subordinate
anew / from the start
HSK 7-9
thus / thereby
HSK 5
to follow the crowd / to conform
to start from scratch
(to do sth) with dispatch / as soon as possible
from morning till night / from dawn to dusk / all day long
HSK 7-9
strict; rigorous; severely
accessory to a crime / accomplice
clause
to go easy / unhurried / calm / Taiwan pr. [cong1 rong2]
HSK 7-9
preferential treatment / most favored terms
whatever you like / to do as one pleases
to deal with sb severely (idiom)
calm / unruffled
HSK 7-9
there has never been; has never had / (before a verb) has never
never
HSK 7-9
to make movies / to be a movie actor (or actress)
from the inside to the outside / through and through / thoroughly
people in the (aforementioned) industry; practitioner; industry professional
to be lenient (in sentencing)
to work as a doctor
to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested
to practice (a trade)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to fall from the sky / (idiom) (fig.) to appear unexpectedly; to drop into one's lap
readily following good advice (idiom); willing to accept other people's views
from head to foot
paternal uncle
-driven (of mechanism, driven by a component) / slave (wheel, pulley)
to own up to the facts
to enlist / to be in the army
have never / has never
doing good is like a hard climb, doing evil is like an easy fall (idiom)
to enlist / to serve in the army
lenient; leniently
Congjiang, a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州, Guizhou
(dialect) before / in the past / previously
unhurried / all in good time
to work as a teacher
Conghua, a district of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市, Guangdong
(literary) follower; attendant
maternal aunt
whence? / where from?
to be engaged in politics (esp. as a government official)
from here on
to work as an artist
(idiom) to take one's time making a decision; to consider at length
(of a slave or servant) to be given one's freedom / (of a prostitute) to marry and leave one's trade
older male second cousin
to follow admonition as natural flow (idiom); to accept criticism or correction (even from one's inferiors)
from start to finish / from head to tail / the whole (thing)
demanding and strict (idiom) / exacting
to jump into a well to rescue sb else (idiom); fig. to help others at the risk to oneself
to omit (less important details etc)
paternal uncle's son; nephew
faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying)
not to hurry / to procrastinate / to postpone
economical; modest
to adopt a simplified approach; to keep things simple
minor official / to be an official


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