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influence / effect / to influence / to affect (usually adversely) / to disturb / CL:
HSK 2
to exercise; to move about; to work out / shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) / movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc) / (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity / (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项) / to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
HSK 2
left and right / nearby / approximately / attendant / to control / to influence
HSK 3
shadow / reflection / (fig.) hint / indication / influence / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
power / influence / a force (military, political etc)
HSK 5
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demonic / iniquitous / nefarious / evil / unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine) / (coll.) strange / abnormal
HSK 7-9
expansion / dilation / to expand (e.g. one's power or influence) / to broaden
HSK 7-9
to infect; infection / (fig.) to influence
HSK 7-9
imperceptible influence / to influence secretly
HSK 7-9
to seep in / to influence / to nurture / influence / training
HSK 7-9
(old) thanks to your lucky influence (polite reply to health inquiries)
clean flowing water / (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences / scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power
A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors.
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  *雄* | 雄* | *雄
male / staminate / grand / imposing / powerful / mighty / person or state having great power and influence
insider contacts / via private channels / to seek influence with sb via family members (possibly dishonest or underhand)
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  *势* | 势* | *势
power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals
to exert a gradual influence / to nurture / a corrupting influence
Internet celebrity; influencer / (attributive) popular on the Internet
to spread poison / pernicious influence
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
lit. the whip cannot reach (idiom); beyond one's influence / too far to be able to help
Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March
after drinking / under the influence of alcohol
(idiom) calm and collected; unaffected by external influences
evil influence / unhealthy trend / (a person's) evil air / aura of wickedness / (TCM) pathogenic energy (opposite: 正氣|正气, vital energy)
spiritual influence (of mountains etc) / cleverness / ingeniousness
toxin / (fig.) pernicious influence
baleful look / inauspicious influence / (of a tire, balloon etc) to leak air
to be contaminated / to be gradually influenced
to harm (sb's health) with narcotics etc; to poison (people's minds); to corrupt / pernicious influence
corrective influence / to reform (a criminal) / redemption (of a sinner) / to influence (a malefactor to a better life) / to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom) / fig. the influence still lingers on / the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive
fame and power / prestige / influence / impetus / momentum
prenatal education / antenatal training / prenatal influences
cause / reason / interest / influence
making things awkward / to cause difficulties / to exert influence / to attract
might / power and influence
power / influence
lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道雞犬升天|一人得道鸡犬升天)
to lose power and influence
prestige / renown / influence
noxious winds, evil influences (idiom); malignant social trends
deep and wide / vast / profound (influence etc)
(Internet slang) young lady (Cantonese-influenced alternative to 小姐姐)
lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property / plagiarism
wealth and influence
unhealthy trend / noxious influence
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences (abbr. for 糖衣炮彈|糖衣炮弹)
to infect / to influence / to dip (in ink)
to be influenced
(coll.) expert; connoisseur; guru; enthusiast; geek (influenced by Japanese 達人 "tatsujin" c. 2000) / (literary) sensible person; person who understands life / (literary) optimist
to use influence to get what one wants / to find a way through (esp. corrupt) / to succeed by means fair or foul
lit. spring wind and rain (idiom); fig. the long-term influence of a solid education
(slang) top-tier celebrity or influencer (abbr. for 頂級流量|顶级流量)
pathogenic influence (TCM)
to shift sth with a crowbar etc / (fig.) to influence by applying leverage
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character
beneficial influence of the sovereign
driving under the influence
(feng shui) beneficial influence, esp. from one's ancestral graves / to confer a beneficial influence
lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit
to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
ability to have one's say and be listened to; influence; clout
(neologism c. 2020) (of an Internet influencer etc) to showcase and promote products via live stream, providing links for viewers to make a purchase
(TCM) six unhealthy influences causing illness, namely: excessive wind 風|风, cold , heat , damp 濕|湿, dryness , fire
(idiom) favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (idiom) (by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates
driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI)
(Tw) Anti-infiltration Act (2020), which regulates the influence of entities deemed foreign hostile forces
negative influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
wide ranging influence
influence / impact
positive influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
words spoken under the influence of alcohol (idiom)
the practice of favoring sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (by extension) culture of favoritism towards relatives, friends and associates
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character
Buddhist griftress (female Internet influencer who exploits Buddhist imagery for self-promotion or commercial purposes)
(loanword) kitsch, in a sense that originates in the writing of Milan Kundera: getting emotional about sth due to the influence of social conditioning
huge influence
reach of influence / affected area
to drive under the influence of drugs
clean-living and honest (idiom); to avoid immorality / to shun evil influence / to mind one's own business and keep out of trouble / to keep one's hands clean
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences
38th parallel / dividing line agreed at Yalta between US and Soviet zones of influence in Korea, now the DMZ between North and South Korea
to be corrupted by evil influences (idiom)
sphere of cultural influence
official who gained his position through the influence of a female relative
More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記|史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).
door / doorman (old) / hanger-on of an aristocrat / social influence / pull / classifier for relatives, marriages etc
(Cantonese-influenced Mandarin) (coll.) traffic cone


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