| | after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future | HSK 2 |
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| | down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action | HSK 1 |
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| | back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post- | HSK 1 |
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| | beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now / (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself) | HSK 1 |
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| | evening / night / late | HSK 1 |
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| | behind / the back / the rear / later / afterwards / (in) the future | HSK 4 |
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| | goodbye / see you again later | HSK 1 |
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| | to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later | HSK 3 |
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| | the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards | HSK 3 |
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| | afterwards; later / newly arrived | HSK 2 |
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| | (bound form) general; overall / to sum up / in every case; always; invariably / anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理｜总经理 or 總編｜总编 etc | HSK 3 |
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| | early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another | HSK 5 |
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| | to arrive late | HSK 4 |
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| | there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late | HSK 4 |
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| | to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by | HSK 5 |
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| | (of trains etc) late / delayed / behind schedule / light dinner | HSK 4 |
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| | to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides | HSK 6 |
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| | lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb) / fig. something unpleasant or embarrassing cannot be avoided forever; sooner or later one must face it | |
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| | the back; the rear; the last bit / behind; near the end; at the back / later; afterwards | HSK 1 |
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| | late / delayed / slow | HSK 5 |
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| | in a moment / later / also pr. [dai1 hui3 r5] or [dai1 hui5 r5] | HSK 6 |
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| | to have a child late in life (esp. said of a father) | |
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| | to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night | HSK 6 |
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| | cheongsam, a traditional Chinese dress for women, originally a long robe worn by Manchu women, later modernized in 20th-century Shanghai into a close-fitting dress with a high collar and side slits | HSK 7-9 |
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| | liver (CL: 葉｜叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy | HSK 6 |
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| | old-fashioned / out of date / to be later than the time stipulated or agreed upon | HSK 6 |
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| | Fu Zuoyi (1895–1974), Chinese general and politician, Nationalist commander who negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beiping (Beijing) to the Communists in 1949, and later held senior posts in the PRC government | |
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| | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later | |
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| | (idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night | |
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| | later generations | |
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| | Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337–370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409–436) / surname Yan | |
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| | next / later / after that | HSK 7-9 |
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| | descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Jin Tianhe (1874–1947), late-Qing poet and novelist, co-author of A Flower in a Sinful Sea 孽海花 | |
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| | Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人, spoken in Egypt until late 17th century | |
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| | late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty | |
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| | the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted | HSK 7-9 |
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| | very late at night | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sooner or later | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. the dishes are cold (idiom) / fig. to arrive late; to take one's sweet time | |
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| | Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible) | |
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| | Yuan Shao (153-202), general during late Han, subsequently warlord | |
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| | newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent / newlywed, esp. new bride / newlywed couple; bride and groom / (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens | HSK 6 |
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| | as soon as possible / at the first opportunity / the sooner the better / before it's too late | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to wait a moment / later / in awhile | |
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| | morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future | HSK 6 |
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| | later generation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 | |
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| | Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China | |
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| | to stay up late or all night | HSK 7-9 |
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| | deceased father / my late father | |
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| | the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August | |
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| | already too late | |
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| | late stage / later period | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ex-wife / late wife | |
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| | recently / of late | |
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| | late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century | |
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| | rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠｜武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld | |
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| | silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century | |
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| | special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門｜澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia | |
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| | to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan) | |
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| | midnight snack / late-night snack | |
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| | to test positive again (for COVID-19) after previously testing positive and then later, negative; to have a rebound positive test result | |
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| | Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220 | |
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| | Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), author of Stories Old and New 古今小說｜古今小说 | |
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| | (Tw) (Internet slang) too late, someone posted that already (supposedly from "lag" misspelled as "leg") | |
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| | same as 舊唐書｜旧唐书, History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫｜刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉｜后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls | |
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| | late | |
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| | East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer) | |
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| | lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later | |
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| | the late / deceased | |
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| | it's getting late; time's getting on | |
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| | late (with a task etc) / slow | HSK 7-9 |
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| | then it's too late (colloquial) | |
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| | (idiom) up to the present / even now / now (in contrast with the past) / at this late hour | |
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| | to freeze a woman's eggs for later fertilization; to cryopreserve oocytes | |
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| | surname Zhao / one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC) / the Former Zhao 前趙｜前赵 (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙｜后赵 (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms | |
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| | ancestor; forefather / sb's late father | |
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| | the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China | |
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| | posthumous title of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤｜努尔哈赤 (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金｜后金 (from 1616) | |
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| | Burgundy (Bourgogne), a medieval kingdom and later a powerful duchy, now a region of France | |
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| | to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood) / a statue created through such a process | |
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| | to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | History of Eastern Han (later Han), third of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Fan Ye 范曄｜范晔 in 445 during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋, 120 scrolls | |
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| | Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山｜孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s) | |
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| | Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼｜释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后 | |
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| | one's later years | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話｜评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | the three sacrificial animals (originally cow, sheep and pig; later pig, chicken and fish) | |
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| | if you live a life of crime, sooner or later you'll pay for it | |
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| | being late is not acceptable (idiom) | |
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| | Zhang Xianzhong (1606-1647), leader of a late-Ming peasant revolt | |
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| | later period / end stage / terminal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one's late wife | |
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| | undisclosed account / to settle matters later / to blame sb after the event | |
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| | it is not too late (idiom) | |
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| | not on time / late (public transport, airlines) / overdue / behind schedule / delayed | |
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| | too late to be sorry | |
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| | Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five Dynasties 後晉｜后晋, compiled History of Early Tang Dynasty 舊唐書｜旧唐书 | |
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