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HSK
to react / to respond / reaction / response / reply / chemical reaction / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to oppose; to be against; to object to
HSK 3
repeatedly / over and over / to upend / unstable / to come and go / (of an illness) to return
HSK 3
variant of 反覆|反复
HSK 3
anyway / in any case / to come over from the enemy's side
HSK 3
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  *反* | 反* | *反
contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切 phonetic system
HSK 4
to mirror / to reflect / mirror image / reflection / (fig.) to report / to make known / to render
HSK 4
on the contrary; instead
HSK 4
to resist / to rebel
HSK 6
repercussions / reaction / echo
HSK 6
to ask (a question) in reply / to answer a question with a question / rhetorical question
HSK 6
reverse side / backside / the other side (of a problem etc) / negative / bad
HSK 7-9
to send back information / feedback
HSK 7-9
to think back over sth / to review / to revisit / to rethink / reflection / reassessment
HSK 7-9
to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
HSK 7-9
to be disgusted with / to dislike / bad reaction / antipathy
HSK 7-9
to retort / to refute
HSK 7-9
(coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
HSK 7-9
unusual / abnormal
HSK 7-9
conversely / in reverse order / in an opposite direction
HSK 7-9
contrast; discrepancy
HSK 7-9
to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul
HSK 7-9
to bounce / to bounce back / to boomerang / to ricochet / rebound (of stock market etc) / bounce / backlash / negative repercussions
HSK 7-9
antonym
lit. the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. to turn from passive to active behavior
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
(idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies
to take countermeasures against / to hit back / to counter
inhuman
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
to reflect / reflection (from a mirror etc) / reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism)
villain (of a drama etc)
on the other hand... / conversely...
Anti-Dühring, book by Friedrich Engels 恩格斯
opposition faction
anti-missile
equation of a chemical reaction
anti-terrorism / to fight against terrorism
antiparticle (physics)
opposite direction / reverse
to rebel / to revolt
anti-party
acid reflux / regurgitation
to ruminate / to chew the cud
counterexample
anti-corruption
to reflect light
earthern goblet stand also known as (old)
to counterattack / a counteroffensive
anti-intellectualism
to sentence the accuser (and free the falsely accused defendant)
retching / vomiting
to backfire on; to rebound on
inversely proportional / inverse ratio
to fight corruption and advocate probity
to turn a hand over / to put one's hand behind one's back / fig. easily done
reflex arc
to be anti-imperialist
to renege / to go back (on a deal) / to back out (of a promise)
to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
anticyclone
the side opposed to the proposition (in a formal debate)
(Chinese opera) to play a role outside of one's specialty / (modern) to play a transvestite role / to masquerade as an opponent
the anti-Christ
locked in (with the door locked from the outside)
to counterattack / to come back after a defeat / to retrieve lost ground
anti-submarine / antisubmarine
unstable / erratic / changeable / fickle
reflection
irony / ironic remark
to feed the enemy misinformation through their own spies / to sow discord in the enemy camp
counterclaim / countercharge (law)
to seek the cause in oneself rather than sb else
anti-communist
to turn defeat into victory (idiom); to turn the tide
to glance back / (fig.) to regret; to have second thoughts about sth
(idiom) to answer back sarcastically; to retort
to ask (a question) in reply / to answer a question with a question / rhetorical question
traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone
introspection / to ask oneself
retrovirus
irony
(PRC) teacher by negative example / sb from whom one can learn what not to do
anti-Chinese
with hands behind one's back / trussed
reflector (typically concave, as in a torch) / mirror (typically plane or convex)
to make a false countercharge
off-season; out-of-season
(a person's) rebellious appearance / signs of an impending rebellion / (physics) reversed phase
to quarrel / to fall out with sb
anti-Japan
anti-Qing / refers to the revolutionary movements in late 19th and early 20th century leading up to 1911 Xinhai Revolution 辛亥革命
to reverse (the score) / to pull off a comeback / to take the lead
vice versa
(physics) reaction / (fig.) backlash; unintended consequence
counterrevolutionary
reflex angle
bad guy (in a story) / villain
rhetorical question
lit. to turn over one's palm / fig. everything is going very well.

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