| | teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL: 位 | HSK 1 |
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| | beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself) | HSK 1 |
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| | sophisticated; advanced (technology etc) / meritorious; exemplary (deeds etc) | HSK 3 |
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| | early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another | HSK 5 |
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| | before; previously | HSK 5 |
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| | vanguard; pioneer; avant-garde | HSK 6 |
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| | precedent | HSK 7-9 |
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| | embryonic period (contrasted with 後天｜后天) / inborn; innate; natural | HSK 7-9 |
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| | source; precursor; forerunner | |
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| | herald; precursor; harbinger | |
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| | pre-Qin, Chinese history up to the foundation of the Qin imperial dynasty in 221 BC | |
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| | the way of former kings | |
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| | (philosophy) a priori | |
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| | forerunner | |
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| | advanced weapon | |
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| | (idiom) to gain the initiative by striking first; to preempt | |
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| | congenital; intrinsic; innate | |
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| | to pioneer / pioneer; trailblazer | |
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| | to lead the way / guide; forerunner; pioneer | |
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| | critical opportunity | |
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| | (literary) ancient sage | |
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| | lit. peaceful measures before using force (idiom) / fig. diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war | |
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| | an older generation / ancestors; forefathers | |
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| | emperor of a former dynasty | |
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| | precondition; prerequisite | |
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| | person of foresight | |
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| | (literary) my deceased grandfather / (literary) ancestors | |
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| | foresight | |
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| | forebears | |
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| | (idiom) the first impression is the strongest; to hold a preconceived notion (about sth) | |
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| | (idiom) in order of arrival; first come, first served | |
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| | having foresight / a person of foresight | |
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| | (military) advance party | |
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| | to introduce sb, putting in a good word for them in advance | |
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| | (idiom) strike first to gain the upper hand | |
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| | vanguard | |
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| | omen | |
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| | a person of foresight / (religion) a prophet | |
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| | (literary) my late mother | |
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| | issue that needs to be addressed first (before another issue can be resolved) | |
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| | (old) Down syndrome; trisomy 21 | |
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| | (literary) our learned predecessors | |
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| | (usu. of troops) in advance; in the vanguard / previously / in front; placed ahead of others | |
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| | deceased father / my late father | |
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| | to start off before the others; to precede / to proceed in advance | |
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| | the time before a certain date; in advance; beforehand; premature / initial period | |
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| | to leave first (courteous expression used to excuse oneself) / (euphemism) to predecease; to die first (e.g. before one's spouse) | |
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| | ancestor; forefather / sb's late father | |
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| | former ruler; founding ruler | |
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| | to suffer from a congenital deficiency; to have an inherent weakness | |
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| | martyr | |
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| | my late father / my ancestors / the late emperor | |
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| | prerequisite; necessary | |
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| | (dialect) first of all; in the first place | |
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| | foresight; prescience | |
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| | the wise and learned individuals of the past | |
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| | former sovereigns | |
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| | (literary) my late father | |
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| | to be the first; to lead the way | |
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| | prior; preexisting | |
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| | first come first served | |
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| | (loanword) shilling | |
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| | to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記｜岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹) | |
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| | avant-garde | |
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| | sequential order | |
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| | birth defect | |
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| | to marry after getting pregnant | |
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| | the rule of former kings | |
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| | (official accolade) pace-setting team; exemplary group | |
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| | my late paternal grandmother | |
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| | to be born with a weak constitution and suffer from ill health during one's life / (fig.) to be problematic from the start, and get even worse over time | |
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| | nature versus nurture | |
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| | (literary) my late mother | |
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| | posthumous edict of a former emperor / Liu Bei's 劉備｜刘备 edict to posterity | |
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| | lit. first execute the criminal, then report it to the emperor (idiom) / fig. to take some drastic action without the prior approval of higher authorities | |
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| | (filmmaking) to prerecord a musical soundtrack to which actors will later synchronize their performance during filming | |
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| | Western Han dynasty (206 BC–8 AD), aka 西漢｜西汉 | |
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| | the music of former kings | |
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| | to take preemptive action / (sports) to be in the starting lineup / (of a baseball pitcher) to be the starting pitcher | |
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| | (baseball) starting pitcher | |
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| | (idiom) to consider it a pleasure to be among the first to read (or watch or enjoy) | |
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| | to gain the upper hand by a show of strength | |
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| | a visionary | |
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| | (official accolade) advanced individual; exemplary individual | |
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| | (computing, inventory management etc) first in, first out | |
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| | advanced level | |
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| | pioneer; trailblazer | |
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| | (math.) prior probability | |
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