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wheel / (derog.) Falun Gong practitioner / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ... / (derog.) so-called
HSK 7-9
stage / proscenium / foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.) / front desk / reception desk / (computing) front-end / foreground
HSK 7-9
in a difficult situation / to cut a sorry figure / scoundrel! (derog.)
HSK 7-9
(coll.) boy / (derog.) joker / guy / (despicable) fellow
wind direction / the way the wind blows / fig. trend / direction of events / how things develop (esp. how they affect oneself) / public opinion (concerning one's actions) / publicity (usually derog.) / limelight
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  *徒* | 徒* | *徒
(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒 "swindler" or 叛徒 "traitor" etc) / (bound form) on foot / (bound form) bare; empty / (bound form) to no avail; in vain / (bound form) merely; just; only / (bound form) prison sentence
(derog.) woman
(derog.) the Longhairs (Taiping rebels of the 19th century)
(derog.) an Indian
for use by the emperor / imperial / (derog.) in the pay of the ruler
stick / club / cudgel / maize (corn) / ear of maize / corncob / (derog.) Korean
goods / (derog.) stuff / trash
hairy fellow / foreigner / Russian (derog.) / bandit (old) / tuft of fine hair
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dwarf / Japanese (derog.) (old)
to change outwardly while remaining essentially the same (derog.) (idiom) / (Tw) (non-derogatory) to change considerably / to undergo a transformation
offal / cooked minced offal / chop suey (American Chinese dish) / incoherent (information) / (derog.) asshat / jerk
(derog.) girlfriend of a married man
lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.) / to have ants in one's pants / hyperactive / adventurous and uncontrollable
devil (derog. term for foreign invaders) / (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931-1945) Jap; Nip
(derog.) villager / hick / bumpkin
(derog.) opera singer / actor
(derog.) (of a woman) to bring one's children into a second marriage / children by a previous marriage
(derog.) to hang out (with sb) / to mix (things) together
(derog.) illegitimate child / bastard
to show one's true nature (derog.) / to betray oneself
not alone but in pairs (idiom, usually derog.); not a unique occurrence / it's not the only case
art of politics / political tricks (often derog.) / power play / to play at politics / underhand trickery
lit. add flowers to brocade (idiom) / fig. to give sth additional splendor / to provide the crowning touch / (derog.) to benefit sb who is already well off
crutch / (derog.) lame person / kidnapper
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
to belong to the same party or organization / member of the same party or organization; (derog.) confederate; accomplice
woman (derog.)
peacemaker; mediator / (derog.) fixer
to tug at / to pull at sb aggressively / to take sb's hand or arm in a too familiar way / (derog.) to hobnob / to consort
to move (things around) / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)
(derog.) inept advisor / a good-for-nothing adviser / one who offers bad advice
sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling / stem; stalk; vine / baby livestock; fry / (dialect) (derog.) suffix used to indicate a type of person
to show off one's accomplishments (often derog.)
poor but spirited person / (old) (derog.) peasant
(dialect) to flirt (derog.)
person from the same village, town or province / peasant (derog.) / (of a school of thought etc) follower
(derog.) Buddhist monk
(derog.) Buddhist monk
(derog.) Islam
mental disorder / neuropathy / (derog.) mental case
dwarf / (old) (derog.) Japanese person
kid / youngster / (derog.) brat
(usually derog.) an old hand at sth
(derog.) (of a prominent figure) to visit (another country) (used when one disapproves of the visit for political reasons)
Westerner (esp. a Russian) (derog.)
(derog.) the Chinese Communist regime (variant of 天朝 Celestial Empire, invented to circumvent censorship)
(coll.) (often derog.) to piggyback on (sb's) popularity / to exploit (sb's) popularity to attract attention to oneself
(derog.) old fool / old bastard
attractive young man (usually derog.) / pretty boy / gigolo
(derog.) Japanese person / Jap
(derog.) this is all thanks to you!; well, thanks a lot!
not to be inferior in any aspects (idiom) / to surpass / to outdo / (derog.) to be even worse
country bumpkin / redneck (derog)
(derog.) to be a good-for-nothing / worthless nobody / no-good
soldier (from the two components of the character) (derog.)
lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.) / to sing from the same hymn sheet
(coll.) commie (derog., used by the KMT) / CCP, the party of the people (used by CCP supporters) / pro-Beijing camp (HK) / (abbr.) Communist Party of Turkey / (abbr.) Communist Party of Turkmenistan
(derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order)
(derog.) shit-stirrer / troublemaker
(derog.) Hong Konger
(derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
(derog.) Taiwanese; a person from Taiwan (implying naivete or ignorance regarding geopolitical and economic realities) (cf. 井底之蛙 sb with a narrow view of the world)
lit. secondary foreigner / (derogatory term for Chinese Christians and others associated with foreigners, used at the time of the Boxer Rebellion) / (coll.) westernized Chinese person / (derog.) person of mixed Chinese and Russian blood / (slang) Ukraine / German shepherd dog / (dialect) two-year-old goat
woman (derog.)
(neologism) (derog.) Japanophile (esp. a Chinese admirer of WWII-era Japan)
Japanese flag (derog.)
to be one's old self (idiom) / to be unchanged / (derog.) to be stuck in one's ways
Japanese army (derog.) (old)
(derog.) wannabe foreigner, a Chinese person who apes the ways of foreigners
(derog.) China's foreign propaganda machine (esp. since c. 2009)
(derog.) bureaucracy / red tape
waste products / refuse / garbage / good-for-nothing (derog.)
(derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars)
(derog.) Korea
(derog.) Korea, esp. South Korea
(economics) (derog.) PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) / PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain)
(derog.) Russia
(derog.) young hooligan (sometimes said in jest)
(coll.) puppy / (derog.) son of a bitch
beast (derog.)
(derog.) tubercular person; a consumptive
(derog.) white person; white pig
an American (derog.) / a Yankee
(derog.) (dialect) old person
(derog.) Taiwanese; person from Taiwan
(fig.) adaptable; able to deal with various kinds of people and situations / (derog.) insincere; two-faced
wild mandarin duck / (derog.) illicit lovers / unorthodox couple
Korean (derog.)
Korean (derog.)


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