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unit (of measure) / unit (group of people as a whole) / work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
unit (forming an entity) / element / (in a residential building) entrance or staircase
HSK 3
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bill / list / form / single / only / sole / odd number / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
simple / pure / unsophisticated / merely / purely
HSK 4
alone / by oneself / on one's own
HSK 4
monotonous
HSK 4
single / only / sole
HSK 5
singles (in sports) / CL: 場|场
HSK 6
unmarried; single / alone
HSK 7-9
weak / frail / thin / flimsy
HSK 7-9
unilateral
HSK 7-9
unilateral
HSK 7-9
(immunology) monoclonal antibody (abbr. for 單克隆抗體|单克隆抗体)
tannic acid (loanword)
king of the Xiongnu 匈奴
simple pendulum (physics)
single chain / refers to RNA as opposed to the double helix DNA
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surname Shan
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on a single day
unicycle
(Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly)
unilateral / one-sided / home remedy / folk prescription(same as 丹方) / single-drug prescription (same as 奇方, one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方) / metaphorically. a good solution
monochrome picture / black and white picture
(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest
apartment
to pick / to choose / to fight a duel / Taiwan pr. [dan1 tiao1]
(idiom) to get straight to the point
single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language)
single supplement (for a hotel room)
simple finals
(coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used across China to refer to a bike-share bicycle)
mononucleosis
one hand / single-handed
single bond (chemistry)
word / CL: 個|个
receipts / invoices / transaction records
yield per unit area
monochrome / monochromatic / black and white
the only son of a family / (functional programming or philosophy) monad
list of items / bill / form / bedsheet
single / alone / individually / an odd one
single volume edition / offprint
single bed / CL: 張|张
one-way (ticket)
positive odd number (also written 奇數|奇数) / singular (grammar)
single-character surname
unit price
unrequited love / one-sided love
single-item
to come individually / to treat separately / separate edition / one-way traffic
(of an organism) single-celled; unicellular
to fight alone (idiom)
lit. single spear and horse (idiom) / fig. single-handed; unaccompanied
bar / bold line / horizontal bar (gymnastics event)
clarinet
bachelor; single man
monorail
single parent family
to use (sth) on its own
lit. to go among enemies with only one's sword (idiom) / fig. to go alone into enemy lines
to fly solo / (fig.) (of a band member) to go solo; (of an employee) to leave and start up one's own company
single phase (elec.)
one-way street
to have only one heir in a generation (of a family, clan etc) / to be learned from only one master (of a skill, art etc)
unlined garment
monosyllabic / a monosyllable
simple substance (consisting purely of one element, such as diamond)
simple sentence (grammar)
one-sided lovesickness; unrequited longing
monosaccharide
single eyelid
Shan county in Heze 菏澤|菏泽, Shandong
comic monologue / one-person comic sketch
to work on one's own / to work single-handed / individual farming
separately and exclusively / specially
one-sided / unilateral
single quotes
tape player / video player / (media) player / play-only device
haploid (single chromosome)
Unicode / also written 統一碼|统一码
unlined trousers / summer trousers
(spreadsheet) cell
monosyllabic word
dromedary
(linguistics) single-morpheme word / simple word
single-lens reflex camera (Tw)
one-way road
erhua variant of 單個|单个
unicameralism / single-house system
an only child
monomer (chemistry)
single parent
monotonous / dull / tedious (idiom)
unpadded shoes
single layer / single story / single deck / single level
unidirectional / single-aspect
(Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly)
flyer / leaflet / single-sheet (map etc)
ommatidium (single component of insect's compound eye) / one eye (i.e. one's left or right eye)

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