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HSK
especially; particularly; even more than usual / extra; additional
HSK 4
structure / pattern / layout
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *格* | 格* | *格
square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively
HSK 7-9
(idiom) inharmonious / incompatible
HSK 7-9
form / specification / format
HSK 7-9
Gera (city in Germany)
forms of versification / conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition / metrical verse
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *格* | 格* | *格
used in 格登 / used in 格格
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time
Georgia (country)
princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty)
lattice / check (pattern of squares)
maxim
(loanword) kvass
to wrestle
Grey / Gray
Green or Greene (name)
gingham
Gree (brand)
to format
style (of art or literature) / form / one's work style / moral character
to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学 / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
Greenland
Gdansk, city on Baltic in north Poland
Glasgow, Scotland
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Grenada, island country in the Caribbean Sea (Tw)
Graz (city in Austria)
(Tw) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Grenada
(onom.) laughing sound / glug-glug haha!
Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism
Granada, Spain
variant of 咯咯
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
Gloucester city in southwest England
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (abbr. for 格物致知) / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia
grille
Groningen, province and city in the Netherlands
Greymouth, town in New Zealand / also written 格雷默斯
King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle
checked woolen fabric; plaid
Graham or Graeme (name)
to parry / to fend off / to block (a blow)
case (linguistics)
Earl Grey tea
Gregory or Grigory (name)
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
Gloucestershire county in southwest England
(loanword) gestalt
Corinthians
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
Greenwich
(idiom) to kill on sight (without fear of prosecution)
Georgian (person)
Gregorian calendar
Grenoble (French town)
tartan; plaid
cubicle
Gestalt therapy / holistic therapy
Greenwich
the Greenwich meridian
Alan Greenspan (1926-), US economist
Grimm's Fairy Tales
giggle
GLONASS (Globalnaya Navigatsionaya Satelitnaya Sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System), the Russian equivalent of GPS
Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
Gulf Port (Florida or Mississippi)
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (idiom); pursuing knowledge to the end
variant of 咯噔
grizzly (mining)
(math.) lattice
Grammy Award (US music industry award)
Gram negative (of bacteria) / also written 革蘭氏陰性|革兰氏阴性
Grant (name)
Gryffindor (Harry Potter)
Grimstad (city in Agder, Norway)
Greenland
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)


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